Schedule manual payroll

Hello there, lrossi.

In your case, we can go ahead and follow the steps below. This helps you set up schedule payroll/liabilities payments without intuit’s payroll service. 
 

1. From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
2. On the left panel, select Payroll & Employees then go to the Company Preferences tab.
3. In the QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Features section, select the Full Payroll radio button.
4. Then, OK. 

Once done, you can now create the manual payroll. Then, you can set up the schedule for payroll liabilities. You may want to check this link as your guide: Manual Payroll. 

Comment below if you have other questions. Stay safe and be well.

@SarahannC I'm a bit confused about your advisement as It appears your are recommending to do what I have already done (look at the pictures of my setting in my original post).

I already have manual payroll set up. What I'm missing is the payroll center to add payroll schedules.

Could you please expand and clarify? I'm afraid I'm missing your point.

I'm here to provide details regarding the schedule payroll, lrossi.

You'll only have the scheduled and unscheduled payroll option if you're subscribed to the Intuit Enhanced Payroll service. Please note that QuickBooks won't calculate your payroll taxes or provide payroll tax forms. You will need to manually calculate your payroll tax figures and enter them for each paycheck to balance your books. 

Since you're using a third-party payroll and the preferences has been set up, you're now ready to create the manual payroll.

Here's how:

1. Click Help at the top, and then select QuickBooks Help (or press F1 on your keyboard).
2. In the Search field, type manual payroll and press Enter on your keyboard.
3. Select the topic Calculate payroll manually (without a subscription to QuickBooks Payroll).
4. Under Set your company file to use the manual payroll calculations setting, click the manual payroll calculations link.
5. Select Set my company file to use manual calculations link. When your company file is set up for manual payroll computation, QuickBooks inserts a zero amount for each payroll item associated with a tax.
6. Close and reopen QuickBooks Desktop.

Here's a sample screenshot for reference:

To know more about the features and what else you can do in QuickBooks Desktop, you can browse our articles here.

Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any follow-up questions for QuickBooks Desktop Payroll. I'll be here to help you further.

@RenjolynCthank you so much for the input but the lack of payroll scheduling is a bit disappointing.

My business is in the service industry and payroll is a big chunk of my expenses (about 80%). Without scheduling, I assume quickbooks will not include payroll in the cash flow projection forecast. That would produce meaningless results.

Could you please confirm or provide a workaround about how to include manual payroll in the cash flow projections? Or should I open a separate post for that question?

I hope I'm wrong but it almost seems that intuit is

@MaryLurleenM  Thank you so much for the response. You just made me realize that I just don't have to record any payroll at all. The 3rd party payroll company is already been paid to do that for me.

The only thing that i need to do is to is to set up a recurring bill for the the withdrawals that the payroll company makes at every pay period. That way i will have an accurate cash flow projector.

I will accept your solution, as we found a way to make quickbooks work for me but it still a shame that intuit decided to take functions away from the software if we don't subscribe to their services. I should have the choice to run manual payroll if I wanted to, but without scheduling Quickbooks is just an incomplete piece of software that makes running manual payroll not a viable solution to most people.

Again, yo have been very helpful, I'm just disappointment about Intuit's practices.