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March 31, 2020
Question

I am having problems with payroll expenses to projects. Is there a difference when marked billable or non-billable? What about multiple projects per employee?

  • March 31, 2020
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Moderator
March 31, 2020

Let me help you track your labor costs using projects in QuickBooks, @melanie.waddy.

 

With QuickBooks Projects, you can easily track all your projects in one place. You can view all the details including expenses, time, and payroll costs to see how they affect your profit margins. Let me show you how:

 

  1. Go to the Project menu and select the project.
  2. Click Payroll hours and enter the name of the employee.
  3. Fill in the rest of the information.
  4. Select Save and new.

 

For your second question, yes there is a difference between transactions that are marked billable and non-billable. You can mark a time activity as billable if there are expenses that are incurred by you on behalf of your client. You can unmark it if you're not billing or invoicing these expenses to your clients.

 

You can manually add multiple projects to each employee. Simply repeat the steps above to add them.

 

In addition, you can also run the Project profitability report to track how profitable your projects are. This way, you'll know exactly which projects are making money and which ones need your attention. Here's how:

 

  1. Go to the Project center and select the project.
  2. Click Project Profitability, then select View.

 

We'll be happy to help you again if you have more questions.

April 1, 2020

Thank you.  Unfortunately this doesn't help.  Maybe if I have more characters now I can explain further :).  We are using QB Payroll and TSheets.  I noticed yesterday, that for some reason, certain employee time did go against the projects, while others did not, especially those that worked on more than one project.

 

As for billable and non billable, do they appear differently against the project?  As in, if the hours are marked unbillable, do they go right against the project and billable doesn't until they are invoiced?  I'm not seeing a rhyme or reason that some items are posted correctly while others are not.

Ami_D
Level 1
April 1, 2020

Hi there @melanie.waddy! This is very interesting. This would be something we'd love to troubleshoot with you if possible. Are you available to give us a call or send us a chat? We're available M-F 5am-9pm MT, and weekends 8am-5pm as well.

We look forward to helping get the kinks worked out so that time transfers smoothly. :)