QuickBooks 2020 All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 5

Paying Employees

IN THIS CHAPTER

Setting up payroll service

Setting up payroll runs

Getting your employees paid

Revising checks

Handling payroll liabilities

QuickBooks provides two do-it-yourself options for paying employees: Basic Payroll (which usually means that your accountant helps you with the payroll tax forms) and Enhanced Payroll (which means that QuickBooks helps you with the payroll tax forms). This chapter describes the Basic Payroll option. With the Basic Payroll option, you do most of the work yourself, but you don’t pay very much for your payroll processing.

A third payroll option would be QuickBooks Assisted Payroll. With this option, you handle paying your employees within QuickBooks, and then Intuit handles the tax payments and filing necessary payroll tax forms.

Yet another option to consider in case you’re not an accountant and are in need of payroll: ...