The Direct Deposit feature is unavailable in the UK version, Shelley6.
You can only email the payslips to employees if you're using QuickBooks Online Standard and PaySuite.
It can be a good feature, though. Let me submit your concern to our management team. This will be submitted to our software developers for assessment.
I'll share the payroll hubs depending on your payroll subscription:
Get back to us if there's anything else that we can do for you.