Each New Year a lot of people using QuickBooks try to decide if they are going to renew their 'payroll subscription', or if they can somehow use QuickBooks for manual payroll. In 2013 I wrote one of our all time favorite articles called '12-steps to manual Payroll in QuickBooks', then in 2014 I revisited the topic to insure that QuickBooks 2015 would also permit the manual payroll option to be used.
Well, someone wrote in a week or so ago saying they couldn't get 'manual payroll' to work for QuickBooks 2018 using the articles in my earlier 12-step articles. So I decided I would try it out, and it worked without a hitch. l was able to set-up a QuickBooks 2018 Sample File for manual payroll using my 12 steps without any problems at all.
Many small businesses using QuickBooks (desktop) want to automate payroll within their accounting, but many cannot afford a payroll subscription. This article is intended to insure that ...