Hello bigt1919,
It's great to see you reaching out in Community. Welcome! QuickBooks Online Payroll, enables you to set direct deposit as default, to your employees. When this happen, you can switch to paper cheque, to ensure your staff is paid on time. I would be happy to provide some insight here!
Switching the payment method for your staff can be performed when you run payroll. Since this pay run required the staff to be paid by cheque, you can switch back to direct debit on your next pay run. To ensure the banking information is on your employee profiles, follow these steps;
1. Open Payroll, then Employees
2. Select the employee
3. Click on the Edit ✎ to add the Payment method information
4. When finished, hit OK.
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If you have any other questions, feel free to reach back out. We would be glad to help!