Can’t run vacation and suck time report

1. Go to Reports menu, then select Employees & Payroll.
2.  Employee Contact List.
3. Select Customize Report.
4. Go to Display tab, then select the following information for Columns:

• Sick limit
• Sick available
• Sick used
• Vacation limit
• Vacation available
• Vacation used

So i have payroll on in quickbooks desktop, but i do not pay for it and i don't run payroll through quickbooks even though i  enter time and have employees on it. I tried to run the report you said (Employee Contact List) and all of my columns have an amount except for vacation used and sick used. Those columns have no balance even though i entered sick and vacation days for employees. Is this because i have not activated my quickbooks desktop payroll subscription?

Thanks for clarifying your concern, @ Lovever. I'll share further information about pulling up a vacation and sick leave report in QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT).

You’re right! You’ll need to subscribe to QuickBooks Desktop Payroll to track the time of your employees. This includes paid or unpaid time off, sick pay, and vacation pay. If you’d like to purchase or activate your payroll subscription, see this article: Get started with QuickBooks Desktop Payroll.

Additionally, the vacation and sick time depend on the payroll item you've set. This means an increase can only be driven by the hours worked. You can refer to this guide to learn more about adding time off: Set up and track time off in payroll.

Once everything is settled, check out these resources to know how to personalize your report’s display and data, then memorize them to have the same settings moving forward:

• Customize reports
• Memorized reports

You can always get back to me if there's anything else you need with managing your employees’ time off or activating your QuickBooks Desktop Payroll. I'm always around to help. Take care!