How to Set up and Manage Payroll Schedules in QuickBooks and Intuit Payroll?

Everyone wants to manage the employees of your organization in a sensible way to run the payroll? Our users do not need to worry about this because we are here to assist you to do so. This module will assist the user to set up and manage payroll schedules in QuickBooks Desktop. We will assist our users to set up, update, assign and delete payroll schedules easily.

What are the Types of Pay Schedules?

Below you will see the types of payment schedules that you can assign your employees to:

• Weekly: Every week on a specific, recurring day of the week pay your employees. In many businesses paydays are scheduled every Friday, which makes per year 52 payouts.
• Every other Week or Bi-weekly: You should pay your staff every two weeks. You would have 26 payouts a year if you scheduled payday for every other Friday.
• Twice a Month or Semi-monthly: Pay your employees once every two weeks. The first payment may be made in the middle of the month, and the second may be made towards the end. Every 15th and 30th of the month is the typical payout date for this plan. This amounts to 24 payouts per year.
• Monthly: Your employees will be paid once per month on a set, regular day. The result is 12 payouts per year.

How to Set up a Payroll Schedule in QuickBooks?

Payroll schedules allow the users to view who required to be paid and at what time. Out of the Pay Employees widow, users can see the next payment date and payment period for every payment schedule. It is very favorable in the upcoming budget disbursement.

• If the user use Direct Deposit or QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Assisted, the Process Payroll On the date and Check date can be altered to add transfer lead times and federal time out.
• Payroll schedules are optional. Users can select to set up a payroll schedule while running payroll for the first time.
• Users can set up to 200 payroll schedules in QuickBooks Desktop.

Set up, Assign, and Update a Pay Schedule in QuickBooks Online Payroll

Choose your products below to set up, assign, or update pay schedules, follow the steps for the payroll product you use mentioned below:

• First, You have to go to Payroll and then go to Employees.
• Then you have to select your employee.
• Select Start or Edit from the Employment details.
• Select the pay schedule for the employee moving forward from the Pay schedule dropdown▼ menu. Select +Add pay schedule to create a new pay schedule.
• When you have completed you have to select Save.

Set up Your Payroll Schedule in QuickBooks Desktop Payroll

• Hold up the important information to include the scheduled payroll.
• Navigate to the Employees menu and choose Payroll Center.
• Hit on Pay Employees option.
• In the Payroll Schedules drop-down, hit on New.
• Give a title for the payroll schedule in the What do you want to name this payroll schedule?
• Hit on the drop-down arrow of How often will you pay your employees on this schedule? To decide the frequency of payment for the payroll schedule.
• If users are choosing Daily, Weekly, Biweekly, Monthly, Quarterly, or Annually then:
• Write the pay period end date.
• Write the date which should visible on the paychecks for the pay period.
• If the user hits on Semimonthly – He or she is required to set up the Paycheck date & the Pay end date for all the paychecks.
• Hit on OK
• Verify if this schedule requirement to be applied to all employees with the same pay recurrence.
• Hit on option Yes if the user wants to assign the payroll for all employees with the same pay frequency.
• Hit on option No if the user wants to assign the pay frequency manually.
• While you complete the steps mentioned-above, the payroll will be visible in the table under Create Paychecks.

How to Change the Pay Period in QuickBooks Online

1. Accessing Payroll Settings:

In QuickBooks, you have to go to the Gear symbol and choose “Account & Settings“. Then from there, you have to go to the “Payroll” section.

2. Modifying the Pay Schedule:

Now you have to select “Pay schedule“. This is where you can adjust the pay period as needed. After finishing, make sure to save your changes that you have done.

3. Editing Pay Period for Individual Employees:

To adjust the pay period for individual employees, you have to select the “Payroll” menu and select the “Employees” option. Click on “Edit Employee” after selecting the employee’s name, then select the desired pay schedule from the drop-down menu.

How to Update a Payroll Schedule?

Only the current pay period is affected if the dates are changed while setting payroll in the Enter Payroll Information window. For all upcoming payroll schedule updates:

It should be noted that the Process Payroll On the date and Check date is modified to account for transmitting lead times and federal holidays if you use Direct Deposit or QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Assisted.

There are two important reasons due to which user must modify the pay schedule, and they are given below:

• There is a company-wide swap in payroll.
• The company has added a new type of employee who needs to be paid differently.

To do so, adhere the below-mentioned steps:

• Navigate to the Employees > Payroll Center.
• In the Create Paycheck, hit on the payroll schedule which is required to be updated.
• Hit on the Payroll Schedules and from the drop-down list, hit on Edit Schedule.
• Make necessary changes under the Edit Payroll Schedule.

While the users navigate to the Transactions tab next time, they are required to choose Paychecks and the new Payroll Periods will appear in the drop-down list.

How to Assign a Payroll Schedule to An Employee?

• Navigate to the Employees menu, and choose Employee Center.
• Double-tap the employee’s name.
• Navigate to the Payroll Info tab and select the Payroll Schedule drop-down.
• Hit on the Payroll Schedule that you want to assign to this employee.
• Choose OK to save changes.

How to Deactivate or Delete a Payroll Schedule in QuickBooks?

You can make a payroll schedule inactive as instead of delete the payroll schedule. This prevented you from creating a new payroll schedule and allowed you to always make it active again if you needed to. A pay schedule can be deactivated by:

• Select Employee Center by going to Employees.
• Choose the payroll schedule that needs to be updated from the Create Paychecks table.
• Select Edit Schedule from the Payroll Schedules dropdown box.
• Click OK after marking the Schedule as inactive.

There are two steps to follow if you choose to completely delete a payroll:

Step 1: Remove any Employees You want to Delete from the Payroll Schedule.

• Select Payroll Center after going to Employees.
• Click the Employee’s name twice.
• Activate the Payroll Info tab.
• Check to see if the schedule listed in the Payroll Schedule column is the one you want to remove. If so, either choose a different payroll plan for the employee or clear the field.
• To check the payroll schedule for each of your employees, follow these steps.

Step 2: Delete the Payroll Schedule

• Select Payroll Center after going to Employees.
• Then you have to go to the Pay Employees tab
• Choose the payroll schedule you want to delete from the Create Paychecks table.
• Then you have to select Delete Schedule from the Payroll Schedules▼ option. If a prompt appears stating that you cannot delete or make a payroll schedule inactive, this means that it still has employees on it. Check all of your employees using Step 1.
• Lastly, You have to select Ok after finishing.

How to Cancel and Reprocess a Scheduled Payroll Which has Already been submitted to QuickBooks?

Users are required to be ensured that cancelling or voiding of paycheck must be done prior to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Also, it should be two banking days prior to the paycheck date. Apart from this, here is a little information user will have to go through prior to stop the direct deposit.

• Once the Direct Deposit has offloaded for ACH processing, Direct deposit can no longer stopped by the QuickBooks.
• Off load time for ACH processing of the Direct Deposit occurred at exactly 5:00 p.m. two working days prior to the paycheck date. (For illustration: If the check date is mentioned as Wednesday, users can cancel or stop it any time prior to 5:00 p.m. pacific time on Monday.)
• By cancelling the Direct Deposit paycheck in QuickBooks Desktop and transmitting that cancellation to Intuit after offload time will not be the obstacle in the Direct Deposit from posting to the employee’s bank account.

Navigate to the Account Maintenance page to verify the payroll status. Below is the given procedure:

• To make the selection of My Payroll Service and Account/Billing Information users are required to hit the Employee’s menu at the top in the Sign in to access your account screen, mention the Email or user ID and Password.
• Hit on the View Payroll Activity in the direct deposit section and write the direct deposit pin
• Watch for the payroll transmission with the check that is required to be stopped.

If the status does not visible as Payroll Processed, user can proceed with the cancellation of the paycheck. Then make a new payroll with the correct pay date. The following module’s outline the absolute instructions on how to accomplish these tasks.

• Cancel a Direct Deposit Paycheck
• Send Payroll and Direct Deposit Paycheck

Further, we are giving out helpline number which users can use to get the help for fixing the direct deposit issues.

Please do not hesitate to make a call to our experts Community again if you have any further questions.

How to Go Through and Reset the Payroll?

To reset or rework on the payroll, users can navigate to the Recent Payrolls section. Here are the detailed steps:

• At the top menu bar hit the Employees tab.
• Select Payroll Center.
• Under Recent Payrolls, press the net pay amount.
• Double-click the paycheck, then choose Delete.
• Hit OK.
• Repeat the same steps for the other paychecks.

Once all the above-mentioned steps are done, users can now move on to create the payroll all over again.

Here are few steps mentioned which user is required to adhere:

• At the top menu bar user is required to hit the Employees tab.
• Select Payroll Center.
• Choose the payroll schedule and select Start Unscheduled Payroll or Start Scheduled Payroll.
• Put a check mark beside your employees’ name.
• Hit Continue.
• Click Open Paycheck Detail.
• Review all the details, then select Save & Next.
• Press Save & Close.

For direct deposits, Users are required to create an offset item.

This article speaks about the various aspects of QuickBooks Payroll Reports in depth, from its use to the steps which user can follow to set up a QuickBooks Payroll Report comfortably.

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