Here you'll find a list of help articles and step-by-step instructions for getting the most out of QuickBooks Online Advanced Payroll.
If your payroll dashboard looks like the one shown here, it means that you're using QuickBooks Advanced Payroll.
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- Set up payroll
- Payroll year end and tax updates
- Move your data
- Payroll settings
- Employees
- Pay runs
- Payslips
- Expenses and timesheets
- Leave taken and deductions
- Statutory pay
- Reporting to HMRC
- Pensions
- Employee portal and WorkZone app
- Fix errors and issues
- Bureau Payroll
Set up payroll
Payroll year end and tax updates
Move your data
- Import Full Payment Summary (FPS), Excel and Sage50 files
- Import employees from Excel
- Import or export a pay run
- Import timesheets
Payroll settings
- Change your HMRC settings
- Set up payment file (BACS) settings
- Add, delete or export users
- Add pay categories and employer liability categories
- Map general ledger accounts
- Set up pay conditions
- Pay condition rule definitions
- Set up payrolling benefits
- Set up DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) email sender authentication
Employees
- Add an employee
- Add a new pay rate
- Add or delete qualifications
- Add court orders
- Edit or change employee info
- Pay Apprenticeship Levy
- Use the employee self setup
- Set employee year-to-date opening balances
- Import employees
- Pay employees with day rates
- Terminate an employee
- Give employee P45 form
- Create a P60 form
- Update employee locations
- Assign locations
Pay runs
- Set up automated pay runs
- Set up pay schedules
- Set up pay run approvals
- Create a new pay run
- Process week 53
- Export a pay run
- Import a pay run
- Add pay earnings line to a pay run
- Add and remove employees from a pay run
- Adjust pay period dates within a pay run
- Apply a leave application to a pay run
- Split costs and hours across multiple locations
- Unlock a pay run and add a message
- Finalise a pay run
- Process ad hoc pay runs
- Decline a pay run
- Delete a pay run
- Pay run warnings
- View pay run payments
- Set up recurring pay run inclusions
- Add additional earnings within a pay run
- Back calculate National Insurance contributions
- Add or edit dimensions and dimension values
Payslips
- View payslips
- Customise payslips
- Add a note or message to payslips
- Send payslips to employees
- Hide units on payslips
- Set up email addresses to send payslips
Expenses and timesheets
- Set up and use timesheets
- Create timesheets on behalf of employees
- Enter timesheets
- Re-import timesheets into a pay run
- Create and manage expense categories
- Add employees expenses to a pay run
- Set budgets
- Import timesheets
Leave taken and deductions
- Set up leave categories and leave accrual
- Set up deductions
- Leave scenarios and examples
- Manage leave without pay
- Add accrued leave
- Add leave taken
- Make a leave adjustment
- Enter Keeping In Touch (KIT) days
Statutory pay
- Add Sick Pay (SSP)
- Add Maternity Pay (SMP)
- Add Paternity Pay (SSP)
- Add Parental Bereavement Leave (SPBL)
Reporting to HMRC
- Switch on RTI (Real Time Information) reporting
- P32 Report
- Report Apprenticeship Levy
- Submit P11D and P11D(b) forms
- IR35 off-payroll working rules
- Submit Employment Payment Summary (EPS)
- Submit Full Payment Summary (FPS)
- View audit report for pay run payments
Pensions
- Set up a pension scheme
- Set up salary sacrifice
- Re-enrol an employee into a pension scheme
- Postpone employee pension scheme
- Manual pension scheme setup
- PensionSync dashboard guide
- Opt employee out of a pension scheme
- PensionSync errors
Employee portal and WorkZone app
- Give access to the Employee Portal
- Get started with the WorkZone mobile app
- Swap employee shifts in the WorkZone mobile app
Fix errors and issues
Bureau Payroll
Need help using Bureau Payroll? Find step-by-step guides here.