QuickBooks - Payroll Entries Repeatable?

sharpsaw

We do payroll ourselves, and haven't found a way to "memorize" entries such as recurring $ for taxes -- the amounts are the same each week for salaried employees, but I have to manually type them every time (in the "Create Paycheck" section). What am I missing? Is there a way to memorize?

Sometimes I think QB limits functionality for manual payroll users in order to nudge us in the direction of buying their payroll services. But I may be wrong about that.

We're running QB Premier, Contractor 2006

Also, a special QB thread is a great idea I saw someone post. (If it exists and I've just missed it, sorry, point me there.)

ChainsawCharlie

Maybe they don't have it because of constant changing tax tables? Or mybe too many variables-hours worked, hourly wage...I use 07 premiere, and I subscribe to the basic payroll service. I think I pay 100 bucks a year. It seems like there's an update at least once a month to the tax/payroll stuff. QB does that auto for me with the service. I don't get any forms printing, though. Just the tax calcs. Good enough for me for the price.

Sorry if this doesn't help.

Sarah9910

Does this help?

Hourly wages: For employees who receive an hourly wage, QuickBooks automatically bases the current paycheck on the number of hours from the previous paycheck. If an employee worked a different number of hours this pay period, you can change the number of hours by previewing the employee's paycheck or directly from the Enter Payroll Information window.

Payroll items based on quantity: QuickBooks assumes that the quantity is the same from pay period to pay period and enters the quantity automatically each time you create paychecks. If you don't want QuickBooks to do this, clear the Recall quantity field on paychecks checkbox in payroll and employee preferences.

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