electronically pay wage garnishment

 You may not be "stuck" at all. Depends on your state and if they have or participate in a service such as expertpay which says it covers all 50 states. I log in, pay and move on in less than 30 seconds. It takes a little bit longer recording the payment in QB but there is no way to directly pay this from within QB since it is not a tax.   https://www.expertpay.com/  Set up your account and enter the employee info once (you can change amounts when you get a new order or even override)

Thanks! I'll check it out. I'm in Texas, btw. 

I just have to say I am VERY disappointed that QuickBooks payroll does not offer this service. Our last payroll company took care of all of this for us with a few easy steps and because QB doesn't this I have been on the phone for HOURS trying to figure out how to get this setup for our employee and his child support garnishments. 

Expertpay takes maybe 1 -2 minutes, no more than 5, to initially set up your account. Like I said before, as little as 30 seconds each pay period to log in and initiate payment and another 30 seconds recording the payment inside QB payroll. There are never forms to file. And that is electronic payment.

What you have to consider is that a wage garnishment as a deduction is equivalent to a retirement program deduction - something else you will not find being able to perform directly from within QB payroll. These are not taxes. Thus not included in Full Service payroll (only Full Service electronically submits payroll taxes without user intervention)

John thank you so much for your response to this. While I understand not being able to pay via Quickbooks electronically, can we create a check within Quickbooks for printing? For example, right now I have physical checks from my bank which I print on through Quickbooks for various vendor payments. I wanted to see if I can set up my employee's wage garnishment company as a vendor and create a normal check within Quickbooks to print out the information on the physical check and mail to them. This way the check gets recorded in Quickbooks and saves me from having handwrite the check.

Also, I dont think I can use expertpay as I believe its for child support and this garnishment is for student loans.

I am interested in the pricing for the expert pay service.  The website is not forth coming with that information.. I would rather not sign up and then find out its too expensive.  I only have one employee that I need to make child support payments for.  Thanks!

It is almost a year later and it seems QBO FSP still can't remit the payment to the states.  I think most clients would pay extra for this service and this is a fairly common payroll issue.  Another option might be moving to ADP or Paychex and using their now simple GL interface to bring in the payroll data.

I could have sworn that this was available through QBD at one point, so there's no way to EPay CS liability through Quickbooks?

Thanks for following the thread, @Denise-Cranford. 

As mentioned above, the E-File and E-Pay are only supported for limited forms in QuickBooks. At this time, this is not available for a child support liability. You can check out Understanding the E-File and E-Pay services for additional details.  

If you'd like, I can submit feedback to our product development team, so this can be considered in a future update. In the meantime, you can follow the suggestion made by John-Pero. 

Let me know if you have further questions or concerns. You can always reach out to us here in the Community anytime you find you need a helping hand. Take care!

In Texas you can set up auto deductions through an internet disbursement website called SmartPay. It's been easy so far because the amounts deducted haven't changed. Once it auto deducts I "pay" it in QuickBooks, changing the check number to DEBIT. For those of you outside of Texas check with your state comptroller to see if they have a similar option. 

It's free

are there any recent (2022) updates with QBO for automatically paying wage garnishments for child support? 

The link for John Pero's solution from 2019 is broken - will have to send a paper check to Franchise Tax Board. California requires we go through the motions to set up an EFT to electronically transfer earnings withholding order garnishments. Seems redundant as we already have this to electronically transfer payment with e-file set up via Quickbooks Enterprise. Paying State of CA wage garnishments via Quickbooks payroll using our existing corporate EFT makes more sense. Hoping Intuit can include this in an update for 2023.

Hi John - how did you record the  payment in QB's?