Payroll not only helps to keep the records of your employees, but it also makes it easy to pay your employees directly into their accounts, maintain their financial records, and much more. To get started with payroll, you must set up payroll in QuickBooks Online or the version you use for your accounting needs.

If you don’t know how to set up the payroll services, we have your back and provide the detailed stepwise instructions below in this guide. So, ensure to follow this guide until the end with extreme care.

Rather than following this complex guide, you might want to get in touch with QuickBooks experts for an instant resolution. Dial 1.855.856.0042 and connect with a QB professional to get assistance. The team is also available to handle this task for you 

Starting Up with QuickBooks Payroll Online 

Setting up your payroll in QuickBooks Online is necessary to get started with the services and ensure you can manage all of your accounting needs on a single software. Following the below steps will help you in the same process easily:

Note: We recommend you follow the steps below with extreme care, as multiple users complained about experiencing QuickBooks error 05396 40000 while setting up payroll in QB Online. If you find it difficult, you must get help from experts.

Launch the payroll setup in QB Online:

• Sign in to your QuickBooks as a primary admin.
• Click on Payroll and then select Overview.

Note: If you are using QuickBooks Online Payroll Elite, you can contact QuickBooks experts to set up payroll for you or have them do it for you. 

• Choose Get Started.
• Select the suitable option if you (or someone else) paid employees in the current year.  
• Now, enter the date when you will start paying your employees using QuickBooks. 
• Enter the business address you signed in with QuickBooks.

Note: a physical address to determine the tax responsibilities.

• If you have multiple work locations, enter them later when adding up employees.
• Enter your main payroll contact info.
• The information of the person responsible for paying your employees. The payroll contact may discuss your account with our payroll specialists and will get important updates from us. 
• Choose the option of how you run the payroll in the past.
• Depending on your answer, you might fail to import employees, pay history, or other information instead of entering it manually. 
• Now, the process of adding your employee will start. To get more details, see Add Your Team below. 
• If any of your employees haven't been paid yet this year, you have the option to pay them now with a paper check if necessary. Alternatively, you could complete the remaining setup steps. Check out the tasks below to set them up.

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Note: You are in charge of any payroll taxes owed up until the payroll setup is finished if you pay your employees now.

• Before you can process payroll, you'll need to finish a few more steps if you paid staff this year. Check out the tasks below to set them up. 

Note: If you don’t remember which QuickBooks Online Payroll plan you use, sign in to your account. Now, refresh your page for personalized steps, or you can simply follow the below steps if you're the primary admin:

• Navigate to Settings and then click on Subscriptions and Billing.
• You will see your payroll plan in the second box.

Summary 

This blog has all the information and step-by-step instructions required to set up payroll in QuickBooks Online for your accounting or business needs. If you are not the admin user, we suggest you conduct the above steps only from the admin account, or you can get their credentials. If the issue persists, dial 1.855.856.0042 and connect with a QB ProAdvisor for assistance.

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