Hello, I am new to using Quickbooks. I am running our first monthly payrun. When I create the payrun do I need to Manually add the 2 employees to the payrun?

Welcome to the Community, bhowarth-terrain!

If you've set up and assigned the employee's to their pay schedule's there's no need for you to click on Manually add the employees to the pay run.

Pay Schedules are used to set up pay runs. The pay schedule's settings are used each pay run to calculate what to pay employees. 

Here's how to set up a pay schedule:

1. Click on Payroll tab.
2. Click on Payroll Settings.
3. Click on Pay schedule.
4. Click on Add.
5. Fill out the name and other field.

Once done, let's go to the employee detail under your employee list and go to their Pay run defaults to see the assigned pay schedule. Then, you can process a pay run and select the pay schedule the employee is assigned to.

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