I have a Court Ordered Payroll Garnishment. The amount garnishable is all disposable earnings above $480. How to I set this up in QBO?

I'd be happy to guide you on how you can set up disposable garnishment in QuickBooks Online Payroll, Hweaver.

With QuickBooks Online (QBO), you can set up pre-tax or after-tax deduction items. Here's where you can enter them:

1. Access your QBO account, click on Payroll, and select Employees.
2. Choose the specific employee.
3. From the Deductions & contributions, select Start or Edit.
4. Choose + Add Garnishment, and In the dropdown menu, select the Garnishment Type.
5. Enter the necessary information, then click Save.
6. If your employee has multiple garnishments, choose the dropdown menu next to Garnishment weighting to select the order in which the garnishments are collected.
7. Hit Done.

For more detailed information, refer to this article: Set up and collect garnishments.

Moreover, you may also review this material to learn more about processing paychecks in QBO: Create and run your payroll.

Let us know in the comments section if you need further assistance setting up deductions in QBO. We're always here to help.

@ErwinQ   The question is, "The amount garnishable is all disposable earnings above $480. How to I set this up in QBO?"

You didn't answer the question.

@hweaver85  Unless QBO is somehow superior to Desktop in this situation (Unlikely at best), or the employee in question always ends up with the exact same Net Pay (You could specify a static garnish to suit said static Net Pay), I expect you're going to have to manually figure this on every one of their paychecks.

Also, this is just speculation on my part, but most of the court ordered garnishments I've seen end up hiding an 'either/or' clause in their legalese vis a vis 'Either all net pay above $X or 20% of their net pay, whichever is lower', so it might be worth your time to give the letter a twice-over.