Standard Payroll hub | QuickBooks Online

Here you'll find help articles and step-by-step instructions for specific features in QuickBooks Online Standard Payroll.

If your payroll dashboard looks like the one shown here, it means that you're using Standard Payroll.

If you want to find articles on a specific topic, jump to the relevant section:

• Set up payroll
• Payroll year end and tax updates
• Move your data
• Employees
• Pay runs
• Payslips
• Leave taken and deductions
• Statutory pay
• Reporting to HMRC
• Pensions
• Fix errors and issues
• Connect to QuickBooks Time

Set up payroll

• Learn about Standard Payroll
• Set up Standard Payroll
• Turn on Standard Payroll
• Turn on Real Time Information (RTI)
• Set up Small Employers' Relief (SER)
• Set up tax code notifications

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Payroll year end and tax updates

• Payroll year-end guide and checklist
• Payroll tax changes

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Move your data

• Import data from another accounting software
• Import employees from the HMRC Basic Tool

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Employees

• Add employees
• Edit employee details
• Change employee status
• Invite employees to QuickBooks Workforce
• Give employees their P45 form
• Issue P60 forms
• Add or remove a company director

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Pay runs

• How to run payroll
• Delete or roll back a pay run
• Process week 53
• Create a pay schedule
• Set up multiple pay schedules
• Make changes to a company pay schedule
• Pay employees outside of a pay period

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Payslips

• Invite employees to see their payslips, P60 form and more
• View and email payslips to employees

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Leave taken and deductions

• Add or customise employee deductions and loans
• Add or customise payroll deductions
• Record deductions suffered under the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS)
• Add or customise overtime, bonus, holiday pay and other pay types
• Add unpaid leave

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Statutory pay

• Add, edit or delete sick pay (SSP)
• Add, edit or delete maternity pay (SMP)
• Add, edit or delete paternity pay (SPP)

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Reporting to HMRC

• Turn on Real Time Information (RTI) reporting
• Submit a Full Payment Summary (FPS)
• Submit an Employment Payment Summary (EPS)
• View FPS and EPS submissions made to HMRC
• Set up Small Employers' Relief (SER)
• Run Employment Payment Record (P32) report
• View journals and payroll liabilities

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Pensions

• Set up a workplace pension
• Auto enrolment and postponement for workplace pensions
• Opt an employee out of a pension scheme
• Set up multiple pensions
• Set up automated NEST submissions
• Send pension reports to pension provider
• Pension re-enrolment
• Delete a pension scheme
• Run pension reports

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Fix errors and issues

• Fix payroll error codes
• Troubleshoot payroll issues
• Fix payroll journal entry issues

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Connect to QuickBooks Time

• Connect Standard Payroll with QuickBooks Time

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