How to enable and use Manual Payroll in QuickBooks Desktop?

You can pay your employees by direct deposit or even generate cheques anytime with QuickBooks. Yes, QuickBooks offers you Payroll feature to make your work simple and easy. To get the Payroll service from the QuickBooks you have to subscribe to enable the Payroll features. You can also enable and use the QuickBooks Payroll function manually without a subscription. The main difference is Payroll with a subscription has more features than Payroll without a subscription. Yet you can perform all necessary and basic functions of Payroll feature in your QuickBooks Desktop without a subscription.

If you subscribed for QuickBooks Payroll already and wanted to opt out of the subscription to use QuickBooks manual Payroll, you can contact the QuickBooks Payroll support. The QuickBooks help center will help you to unsubscribe from Payroll features and access the free Payroll service. If you are QuickBooks user, you might have already known that QuickBooks Desktop US version is a bit different from QuickBooks Desktop Canada version. The process of enabling the manual Payroll in QuickBooks Desktop also differ in different versions.

How to set up manual Payroll in QuickBooks Desktop (US versions)?

1. You should make sure that your preferences are set up for Payroll.
   1. In the Edit menu, you have to select
   2. Now choose Payroll & Employees and go to the company Preferences
   3. You have to select the Full Payroll radio button in the QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Features section.
2. From the Help menu, choose QuickBooks Help or press
3. You have to type Manual Payroll and pressEnter in the search field.
4. Now select the topic Calculate Payroll Manually.
5. Inset your company file, click the Manual Payroll calculations
6. Now select Set my company file to use manual calculation link. As soon as your company file is set up for manual Payroll computation, QuickBooks inserts a zero amount for each Payroll item.
7. Now close and re-open QuickBooks Desktop.

Note: In case if you select the Set my company file to use manual calculations link accidentally and if you want to reinstate Payroll tax calculations in your company file, you should subscribe for QuickBooks Desktop Payroll.

How to set up Manual Payroll in QuickBooks Desktop (Canadian versions)?

1. You should make sure that your preferences are set up for Payroll.
   • In the Edit menu, choose Preferences
   • Now choose Payroll & Employees and go to the Company Preferences
   • Click the Full Payroll radio button in the QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Features section and select
2. Now from the Help menu, choose QuickBooks Help or press
3. In the search field, you have to type Manual Payroll and press
4. You have to select the topic process Payroll manually.
5. Follow the steps given one by one to complete the

This process would have helped you to enable the Manual Payroll feature in QuickBooks Desktop. If you got stuck anywhere or if you need assistance in any QuickBooks related issues, don’t worry you will always have someone to help you out. You can call the QuickBooks Payroll Support Phone Number at 1-805-257-5030. A QuickBooks expert will hear your problem and solve all your issues instantly.

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