How to set up pay for 2 employees, they will be payed monthly, we would like a pay date of the 16th March and their employment would be from 27th of February, how please?

Good day,  cylchcwtch22-hot.  I'll ensure you'll be able to pay your employees in QuickBooks Online (QBO). 

You can create unscheduled checks to pay your employees for 17 days in QuickBooks Online (QBO). This way, you don't need to assign a pay schedule when paying your employees.  

Here's how:

1. Go to Payroll and then select Employees.
2. Select Run Payroll.
3. Choose As net pay or As gross pay.
4. Enter any info about taxes or paycheck calculations (if applicable).
5. Select or review the QuickBooks bank account to track your payroll, the pay period, and the pay date.
6. Choose the employees you'd like to pay.
7. Add the hours, compensation, memos, or any other paycheck info as necessary.
8. Click Preview payroll.
9. Select Preview payroll details, Save for later, or Submit payroll.
10. Confirm the amounts and payment methods and select Finish Payroll.

If you want to pay your employees every week or monthly,  you can set up a bi-weekly or bi-monthly schedule for them. For additional reference, you can check out this article: Set up and manage pay schedules in Standard Payroll.

I'm still open to your replies if you need further assistance processing payroll in QBO. Have a great day ahead!

Thank you for the reply, I have 1 more issue we need o run payroll however our employees have not received a P45 as yet, how do we proceed, QB wont let me run payroll until I complete previous tax sections?

I can share some information about processing P45, cylchcwtch22.

In QuickBooks Online Standard Payroll, creating a P45 closes the employment record. You'll need to mark the employee as a leaver to get the P45 under Documents on the individual employee's profile page. 

Check out this article for more information about setting an employee as a leaver. Then, run the final payroll and send FPS to give the leaver a P45: P45 form in QuickBooks Online Standard Payroll.  

Since you still need to process payroll, I suggest reaching out to our Customer Support team to help you with processing your payroll.

Follow the steps below: 

1. Go to the Help (?) icon to connect to a live support agent.
2. Click on the Contact Us button and provide us with some details about this concern.
3. Provide us some information about your concern in the What can we help you with? box and click on Continue.
4. You'll now be provided options on how to connect to our Customer Support.

For additional details on the different types of support we provide and their availability, see this article: QuickBooks Online Support.

In case you're having payroll errors, see this article for detailed guidance on how to fix it: Fix payroll errors in QuickBooks Online Standard Payroll. 

Let me know if you need further help to process your payroll. I'm always here to help. Have a great rest of the day!

The employee is new not a leaver, but has not received a P45 from previous employer so how do we now run payroll without the information required from P45?

Hello Cylchcwtch22-hot, So you can run the payroll without having the P45 from the previous employer as you will need there last pay note for the opening balance, however you could get the wrong figures and you can't edit the P45 details after running the payroll. You can have a look at this link as well as it has more information on adding a new starter.