Erziehung » How To Setup QuickBooks manual payroll?

If you'd like to do your payroll manually, track it in QuickBooks Desktop. Just remember, you'll need to calculate and enter payroll taxes, and file your tax forms yourself.

Need help running payroll? Sign up for a new QuickBooks Desktop Payroll subscription or reactivate an old account.

Set up QuickBooks manual payroll
Before you can manually run payroll in QuickBooks Desktop, you need to enable payroll inside settings.

Note: Before you set up manual payroll, be sure to update your version of QuickBooks so you get the latest fixes and improvements.

QuickBooks Desktop 2018 or later

From the Edit dropdown menu, select Preferences.
Select Payroll & Employees, then select the Company Preferences tab.
In the QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Features section, select the Full payroll and the Manual Payroll checkboxes.
Select OK.
From the File dropdown menu, select Exit to apply the changes.