How do I add an inactive employee back on the payroll?

You'll have to activate the employee from the Employees page, @pat40. This way, you can add them back to your payroll in QuickBooks Online (QBO). I'm here to guide you how.

QBO makes it easy for you to activate an inactive employee. This is to make sure your payroll account's employee list is up to date. Here's how:

1. Go to Workers or Payroll menu.
2. Select Employees.
3. Choose Inactive Employees beside the Find an employee field.
4. Find the employee, then click the drop-down arrow under the Status column.
5. Select Active.

I've attached screenshots below for your reference.

Once activated, you'll be seeing the name of the employee when you process or run your payroll.

To effectively manage your employees and payroll in QuickBooks Online Payroll, you can check out this article: Getting help with payroll. It contains list of articles that'll help you set up and process payroll, manage employees, pay taxes, and file tax forms.

Please let me know if you have other concerns. I'm just around to help.