I want to manually run payroll in quickbooks online.

Hello, there.

Yes, you can run payroll manually in QuickBooks Online. I'm glad to walk you through the process.

Manually inputting payroll paychecks into QuickBooks Online tracks payment totals, but it does not generate data for employee W-2s. You must collaborate with your payroll service to obtain year-end forms.

To begin, you need to create manual tracking accounts to track your payroll liabilities and expenses. 

After you pay your employees outside of QuickBooks, create a journal entry. This is how you enter the payroll paychecks into QuickBooks Online:

1. Sign in to your QuickBooks Online Payroll account.
2. Make sure to get your employees' payroll pay stubs or a payroll report from your payroll service.
3. Click + New, then Journal Entry.
4. Under the Journal date, enter the paycheck date.
5. If you want to track the paycheck number, enter it in the Journal no. field.

Use the info from your payroll report to create the journal entry. You can also review this article for the detailed steps: Manually enter payroll paychecks in QuickBooks Online.

Furthermore, you might want to subscribe to QuickBooks Online Payroll. This will help you process payroll without creating journal entries. Once you're ready, you can read this article to learn how to set it up: Get started with QuickBooks Online Payroll.

Feel free to post here again if you have follow-up questions about processing payroll in QuickBooks Online. I'm always here to help. Have a good one.