Job Costing payroll service items

Can this be done if you are paying a contractor rather than an employee?

I'll give some details to ensure you'll be able to track the job cost, dfcurry581.

Yes, it's possible. You can follow the steps provided by my peers JenoP above to assigned hours of work for your contractors. Let's ensure to select the correct contractor and service item. Also, you can create a new service item if you haven't had it yet on the list. Here's how.

1. Go to Lists,  then select Item List.
2. Click Item, then New.
3. Choose the type of item you want to create.
4. Fill out the item fields.
5. Use Custom Fields to add customized fields.
6. Hit Save.

You can review this guide: Add, edit, and delete items. It contains detailed steps and helpful information about managing items in QuickBooks Desktop.

In addition, feel free to check this material here to learn more about the reports available specifically for your business need: Understand reports. 

I'll be right here to continue helping if you have further questions about tracking job costs. You're welcome to post a reply. I'm always here to help.

I’ve tried this and the time is not on my reports. After 6 phone calls and over 20 hours in phone w QB they told me there is no way to do this 

QB has gotten so BAD.  I waited 2 months for them to get Enhanced payroll installed and they still cannot get it. I had to go with a 3rd party company. They also did some of the W'2s incorrectly along with not filing 4th quarter.  To date (3/16/23) they have not issued the correct forms.  Half of the customer service people do not even understand your complaint/problems and cannot solve your problems.  I can't tell you how many hours I have been on the phone with them. You get a different person each time and nothing ever gets resolved. Then they charge you for every little thing and the pricing is outrageous, keeps increasing.  Intuit is a s#$% Show.

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Is there a way to do this in QB Online?  Or more specifically, how can you see a report that shows payroll service items?  I'm using weekly timesheets and entering customer and service item, but I can't find a place to find the information after payroll is processed?  

Thanks for checking in with us, verityconstructi.

If you are using QuickBooks Time in QuickBooks Online (QBO), we can access the payroll service item by viewing the Payroll and Itemized Total Time reports. Just go to Time, then select Reports. There are two reports available:

• Payroll: Find the total hours each team member worked for a given date range, broken down by pay type.
• Itemized Total Time: Find the total hours worked for each customer, project, service item, or any other timesheet field.

To find more advanced Time reports, go to classic QuickBooks Time. You can check out this article for more details about this one: Learn how to use QuickBooks Time in QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Online Payroll. 

If not, we can run the payroll item list report. Here's how:

1. Go to Reports on the left side menu.
2. Enter the Payroll Item List in the search field. 
3. Click the Customize icon. 
4. Select the service items to be included in the report.
5. Press Run report. 

Feel free to check out these articles for your reference in case you need ways on how to keep track of your payroll transactions: 

• Process or run payroll
• Run payroll reports

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