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Change your primary admin, payroll admin, or other payroll contact

by Intuit•1• Updated 6 days ago

QuickBooks helps you manage your business's payroll. If you need to change the person in charge of payroll, here’s how to do it in QuickBooks Online Payroll.

Prerequisites

Make sure your payroll subscription is active.

If you aren’t sure what roles or permissions you need, review Understand payroll roles and permissions.

QuickBooks Online Payroll

Update the admin’s personal info and sign in credentials

  1. Select the icon of your name’s initial at the top right.
  2. Select Manage your Intuit Account.
  3. You’ll be directed to accounts.intuit.com page. From there, you can update your personal info. 

Update the admin’s personal info only

  1. Go to Settings ⚙ and select Manage users.
  2. From the Action column, select Edit.
  3. You can update the name or email.
  4. Select Save changes. 

If you need to to transfer the primary admin rights to another payroll contact, check out Change the primary admin user in QuickBooks Online.

  1. Go to Settings ⚙ and select Manage users.
  2. From the Action column, select Edit.
  3. You can update the name, email, or the role.
  4. Select Save changes.
  1. Go to Payroll and select Payroll Settings.
  2. Under Business Settings, select ⚙ Details.
  3. Update your payroll contact or any other info you'd like to update.
  4. Select Save.


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