QuickBooks 2023 All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 5

Paying Employees

IN THIS CHAPTER

Setting up a payroll service

Setting up payroll runs

Getting your employees paid

Revising checks

Handling payroll liabilities

QuickBooks provides a do-it-yourself option for paying employees: Enhanced Payroll, which means that QuickBooks helps you with the payroll tax forms. A second payroll option would be QuickBooks Assisted Payroll. With this option, you handle paying your employees within QuickBooks; then Intuit handles making the tax payments and filing the necessary payroll tax forms.

Yet another option to consider in case you’re not an accountant and are in need of payroll: Consider splurging a bit and going with one of the full-service payroll providers, such as ADP, Paychex, and Gusto. Having one of them process your payroll greatly simplifies the accounting work and — in my experience — saves you money over time.

If you go with ...