Paying Your Employees

After you set up your payroll schedule, you’re ready to pay someone. This section is going to blow your mind, especially if you’ve been doing payroll manually. The process makes your decision to use QuickBooks to do your payroll worthwhile. Here’s how:

1. Start the payroll process by choosing Employees⇒Pay Employees⇒Scheduled Payroll.

QuickBooks displays the Employee Centre: Payroll Centre window (see Figure 12-9). The Payroll Centre window identifies any payroll schedules you set up. Select the scheduled payroll you want to, well, do. Then click the Scheduled Payroll button. QuickBooks displays the Enter Payroll Information window (see Figure 12-10), which lists the employees who participate in the scheduled payroll. Initially, all the listed employees have a check mark beside their name, but you can click to remove a check mark and to remove an employee from the scheduled payroll.