You can set up yourself as an employee with the paper check as your payment method, habdel. Let me provide the steps below.
Since you want to pay yourself using QuickBooks Online (QBO) you have to set up yourself as an employee to record your salary and generate all the necessary forms. To do so, please follow the steps below:
- Open your QBO account.
- Go to Payroll, then select Employees.
- Click Add an employee.
- Input all important details in the Who's your new team member? window.
- On the Let your employee self onboard in QuickBooks Workforce and save time part, tick the I'll enter all their info myself.
- Once done, click Add employee.
For reference, please see the screenshot below:

After adding yourself as an employee, open your employee profile and fill in all necessary details in the Profile section accurately. The information entered in this section will help QuickBooks generate your tax and payroll forms correctly.
Also, ensure your payment method is set to Paper Check. To do so, please follow the steps below:
- Go to Payroll, then select Employees.
- Select your employee profile.
- Navigate to the Payment method, then click Start.
- Select Paper check on the Payment method dropdown.
- Click Save.
For reference, please see the screenshot below:

If you're ready to process your payroll inside QuickBooks, you can refer to this article for detailed instructions: Create and run your payroll.
If you have any questions or concerns about payroll tasks in QuickBooks, please feel free to leave a comment below. The Community forum is always available for you.