Get the Most Out of QuickBooks Payroll
Lesson #5: Processing Payroll Like a Pro
You've made great progress with QuickBooks Payroll—you've learned how to pay your employees, pay payroll liabilities, and prepare tax forms. In this fifth and final lesson of QuickBooks Payroll Starting Points, we'll provide additional tips, so you can get even more out of QuickBooks Payroll.
If you haven't set up your QuickBooks Payroll, go back to Lesson #1: Get Started with QuickBooks Payroll. To review other topics, go back to:
This Week: Get the Most Out of QuickBooks Payroll
QuickBooks Payroll can help you handle your payroll easily and accurately—so you can spend less time on payroll and more time managing your business. Increase your efficiency by using the following features and tips:
Tips
Keep Your Payroll E-mail Address Current
QuickBooks Payroll sends periodic service announcements throughout the year, such as when there's an important payroll update or if your state has decided to change its tax rates. Keep your payroll e-mail address up-to-date to make sure you receive these announcements—and to ensure they go to the right person at your company. Learn how.
Know How to Add Another Company to Your Subscription
Your QuickBooks Payroll subscription** allows you to process payroll for as many as three companies (as defined by individual businesses that have separate Federal Employer Identification Numbers [FEINs]). Learn how to add another company to your subscription.
Use the QuickBooks Community When You Have Questions
Have a question about how to do something in QuickBooks? Check out the message boards in the QuickBooks Community. That's where tens of thousands of QuickBooks users exchange tips and share insights about how to get the most out of QuickBooks and QuickBooks Payroll. Follow these links:
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Resources
QuickBooks Resources
Use these valuable resources to get the answers you need:
- QuickBooks Help: Access the program Help within the software for technical or troubleshooting issues. From the Help menu in QuickBooks, select QuickBooks Help.
- QuickBooks Knowledge Base: Get answers to thousands of QuickBooks questions.
- QuickBooks Message Boards: To ask questions of users like you, use the QuickBooks Community Message Boards.
- QuickBooks Payroll News: For a summary of all payroll updates for the current year, go to the Payroll News page.
Additional help options include:
Free Callback Support
As an active QuickBooks Payroll subscriber, you will receive free callback support*
to help you get started and manage your payroll in QuickBooks with confidence.
IRS Resources
Visit the IRS at www.irs.gov for more information about the following:
- Publication 15 (Circular E), Employer's Tax Guide
- Form W-4, Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate
- Form W-4(SP), Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate (Spanish Version)
Get Help from a QuickBooks Expert
Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors® are usually accounting professionals and consultants who specialize in providing
local one-on-one help to small businesses using QuickBooks. Some QuickBooks Payroll users find it helpful to consult with a ProAdvisor
when they have questions on setting up a payroll in QuickBooks or to review their setup to make sure everything's good-to-go.
Search for a ProAdvisor.
Upcoming Issues
Future lessons will cover:
- Paying your employees and processing payroll
- Paying payroll liabilities
- Preparing payroll tax forms
- Getting the most out of QuickBooks Payroll
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