Payslip password - where to set up to send payslips with password

Hello there, meeraminesh.

After we run payroll, we can email the payslip to our employees. QuickBooks encrypted password as long as the payslip is emailed to your employees on or before the date you pay them. For more details, you can check out this article: Payslips in QuickBooks Online Standard Payroll.

You can share this information to your employees about the password for their payslip email, it is consist of eight characters, in the format of:

• First 4 letters of the employee’s surname (lowercase).
• First 4 characters of the NI number (lowercase). If no NI number is present in QBO, the year of birth is used.

In addition, you can visit this link where we can get further information about QuickBooks Online Payroll.

Let me know if you have other questions. I hope you're good. Stay safe!

Thank you Sarah.

Today was our pay day, and we sent out the payslips by QB via Email expecting as you say the payslips to be password protected. However they were not and anyone with access to the email can open the payslip. 

Thank you for the clarification.

It is not at all clear when you set up QB payroll and indeed there is a note about password protection on there so we simply assumed QB "Advanced" will be sending out payslips password protected.