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jimmyd32
Level 2

Terrible Support at QBO

I've been trying to get payroll fixed since October 2020--been on the phone with QBO multiple times for 1-2 hrs at a time.  No one seems to know enough about payroll to fix it.  And in 1 instance, the person hung up on me (or disconnected?) and never called back.  The employee's W-2 is STILL wrong and now I have an issue with getting sick time accrual correct.  I had 3 people on the phone this morning and the last one said they were escalating my issues to a higher level and they would call back in 5-10 minutes--that was over 2 hours ago--nothing.  W-2s are due on the 31st and that particular issue I've been trying to get QBO to correct since October.  Do they just not have payroll professionals that know how it works?  Or is their support really that bad?  

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sberti
Moderator

Terrible Support at QBO

Hello @jimmyd32, thank you for coming to the Community I'd love to assist you with resolving all of these issues.

I want to make sure you're well taken care of in every aspect of your account.

 

I understand you've been on the phone with a few people, so I hate to have you repeat yourself, but a few clarifying questions will help me find the right solutions for you.

  • It sounds like the W-2 is the most pressing issue at the moment. With the employee W-2, what part is incorrect?
  • What kind of discrepancies are you seeing with your Sick Time Accrual?

While I wait on that, I'll take a look into your account to see what might have happened to that callback.

That's not the experience you should have with Intuit support.

 

In the meantime, we've got a whole team of agents right here in the Community on standby to help you with any and all issues that come up!

 

I look forward to hearing back from you so we can figure out what is going on and fix everything once and for all :)

jimmyd32
Level 2

Terrible Support at QBO

Thank you for responding!  I still have never received the promised call-back...  As for the W-2, when I set up payroll in early October for the one employee in GBS, I provided to-date information.  No one (after several phone calls) could ever figure out how to deal with the HSA--both for recording historical information or for the first QBO payroll on 10/15.  So I said just forget it and I'll fix it later.  So the 10/15 payroll did a "catch-up" deduction for recalculation of SS and Medicare Tax.  With the HSA, this was of course incorrect.  There was an adjustment made, but it was also made incorrectly.  I finally got the payroll set up to handle HSA for 11/15/20 but the two payrolls in October were incorrect.  I refunded the employee the incorrect SS and Medicare withholdings and need the 4th quarter information corrected.  After multiple times on the phone, sending the year to date information multiple times, the W2 it is still not correct.  Which means the payroll tax liability is incorrect as well--we've had to manually deposit the funds with the IRS and State and manually prepare Forms 941 and 940.  We can of course manually prepare the W2 but all of this should have been done by QBO which is the service we signed up for.  I've run out of ways to explain the situation and get it correct and told one of the support people we could just do everything manually, which we've done mostly anyway, but would expect a refund of fees charged by QBO.  

 

As for the sick pay, CO change in law requires an accrual of sick pay equal to 1 hr per 30 worked (formula of 1/30=.0333) up to a maximum of 48 hrs for the year.  When we enter that in the payroll info, inputting the 1st 2 payrolls as year to do since they're already been processed, the total does not compute correctly--the accrued hours are incorrect.  

 

Again, I continue to get people on the phone who are not competent to be advising for payroll in these situations--the call-back today should have come from an elevated level, presumably from someone more highly knowledgeable about payroll and how it works in QBO.  Any help you can provide would be helpful.  This is not James Davis, but his CPA Lynn Bastian--I am also on the account and who everyone has been speaking with.  

 

 

MariaSoledadG
QuickBooks Team

Terrible Support at QBO

I wish I could make it better. jimmyd32.

 

We always want to cater to all your issues and concerns

 

Our Customer Care Support may unable to initiate a callback as scheduled due to the volume of calls within the day. With this, I recommend getting back to them if you still didn't receive the promise within a day or two.

 

In addition, I've also included this reference for a compilation of articles you can use while working with us: Help Articles for QuickBooks Online Payroll. If you have any other questions, please let me know by leaving a comment below. Stay safe.

jimmyd32
Level 2

Terrible Support at QBO

I appreciate the reply, but I need to get the W2 out by Friday.  And I've been trying since October to get this corrected.  When I call, I get someone on the front line.  The call back was supposed to be coming from a higher level person that can hopefully get it done correctly.  It's getting wearisome having constantly call, be on hold, talk to someone who has no clue.  The link you send is appreciated but does not get my problem solved with the W2.  The instructions for accruing sick pay also still doesn't work and the front line person had no idea how or why QBO is calculating an incorrect sick pay accrual.  I need competent help now!

jimmyd32
Level 2

Terrible Support at QBO

Still no call-back and no resolution of the corrections I've been working to get done since October.  I'm having our bookkeeping prepare a manual W-2--she's already prepared Forms 940 and 941 manually so we would expect a refund of QBO Payroll fees todate.  And the 3 companies I had intended on moving to QBO payroll is not going to move now given the issues we've had.  Who can I contact to get a refund of fees?  

AlexV
QuickBooks Team

Terrible Support at QBO

We don't want you to feel that way, jimmyd32.

 

As mentioned in this thread, it could be due to the high volume of queries they received every single day. How I wish I can give you a callback but QuickBooks Community has limited tools since this is a public space. 

 

With regards to the refund, our Support Team is the one that can process it. It's best to reach out to them again so they can check it. Also, they'll be able to review your previous cases and see if there's an update.

  1. Click the (?) Help icon and choose the Talk to a human option (then type it again when prompted).
  2. When asked by the bot, enter "Refund."
  3. Select I still need a human, then proceed with Contact us.
  4. Tap Let’s talk then choose either Get a call or Start messaging

In addition, I want to share this link on how to resolve issues in W-2 forms:

I'll be here if you need anything else. Take care!

jimmyd32
Level 2

Terrible Support at QBO

Thank you for the information to obtain a refund.  We will manually prepare the 2020 W2 as we did the 940 and 941--and follow your instructions to ask for a refund.  We still have an issue for 2021 in that QBO is not accruing sick pay correctly.  I'll try again talking to someone in support and ask for an individual higher up since I've not gotten resolution in all my conversations since October from the initial people who call back.  We use other payroll solutions in our other companies and had wanted to move to QBO payroll for consistency, but this experience has told me that the QBO is not fully knowledgeable about payroll nuances.   

PlumBookkeeperCO
Level 4

Terrible Support at QBO

I get the same platitudes that you are...

 

"not the experience we want you to have"...  "rest assured we're working diligently/hard/top priority"..

 

but nothing ever happens...   very frustrating... it's like dealing with a bunch of 12 yr olds who keep saying they're going to clean their room up but never do and give all kinds of excuses as to why you can't see their room and how beautiful/handsome you look today and can I give you a piece of cake instead.

andrew99
Level 3

Terrible Support at QBO

I posted about their terrible support in the past... and look at that, they deleted my posts!

 

all were factual...

CS42
Level 1

Terrible Support at QBO

support is not available in general. QBO makes it much too hard to find and reach support options. chat does not work (at least this morning) and there is no email (at least easily findable). simply trying to find out if an email is pretending to be QB -- the company ought to want to know, have a place to forward such. ugh for the time pain

Fiat Lux - ASIA
Level 15

Terrible Support at QBO

@CS42 

Any specific concern?

 

FritzF
Moderator

Terrible Support at QBO

Thanks for joining this conversation, @CS42.

 

Allow me to chime in and help ensure everything is taken care of for you.

 

May I know what specific issue you're having? I can answer some general questions or concerns you may have about QuickBooks Online (QBO). Simply click the Reply button below, and I’ll do everything in my power to assist.

 

You can also visit our website for tips and other resources you can use in the future: Self-help articles.

 

I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon.

andrew99
Level 3

Terrible Support at QBO

Frankly... I think he summed it up nicely. :-)

I can get sales on the phone or by email, within MINUTES... but support is just a wash of bad options and stupid quesitons.

 

sorry, it's just true.

it's quite an imbalance...

ryan-1234
Level 3

Terrible Support at QBO

the entire quickbooks chat team is outsourced, honestly i'd prefer they just fired all of them and didn't provide chat support. Thats honestly how bad it is, i've been with quickbooks for years, the software is great as long as you don't need to change anything. But man the moment you contact support I swear it takes a week off of your life span, "sorry this is out of my scope" is their favorite line and then they transfer you an unlimited amount of times until you disconnect. The only people i've spoken to at quickbooks who knew what they were doing is their top level escalation team for people like me who complain rather then cancel my service. But lets not mix words here, they have the data, they know the support is terrible so they choose to provide this level of standard. Hate is a pretty strong word, but I find myself hating to talk to most people at quickbooks because they just don't know or want to help.
My most recent issue is happening right now, and surprise surprise, i'm on my 5th transfer to the same department for 2 hours of chat support. And man its such a simple question.. here i'll copy paste it:

 I changed my business address from Washington state to Wyoming back in 02/2022 in Quickbooks online. However because you manage my payroll, i found this article stating i should have contacted your team to make the change. I want to know: 1) why I needed to contact you? 2) once you confirm the reason, ensure that reason has been fulfilled
https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/help-article/business-address/update-business-name...
click the article, select "quickbooks online payroll" and read the first paragraph, intuit files and pays taxes for me.
You know what chat says when reading this question?
"Oh you're trying to update your address today"
"Oh your contacting about quickbooks desktop"
Like what?? these guys don't even read your question, and its not just 1 person its EVERY person i talk to for the past FOUR YEARS. 
My favorite part is as the chat gets longer from all the transfers, the agent insists that he/she reads all the messages in the previous chat even when you give them a summary of what you need. So as you get transferred more, they ignore you longer each time to "review" the previous chat that is of no help to the agent. What a perfect scam for a support center lol

 

PlumBookkeeperCO
Level 4

Terrible Support at QBO

@FritzF

last week chat with one support person was good... hours and hours to find out there is no solution.

 

today, two chats.. first one clearly had no idea what I was asking (sales tax center payment system doesn't seem to be correctly relieving the liability account) and told me they couldn't transfer me... second one listened and then told me I needed a bookkeeper.   The link provided went to a 404.

 

 

Rose-A
Moderator

Terrible Support at QBO

Good day, PlumBookkeeperCO.

 

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Please let me know if you have any further questions. I'm always willing to help and offer additional assistance. Have a wonderful day!

jhcct
Level 1

Terrible Support at QBO

I was on hold for 1 hour and 14 minutes and then hung up on . this after chatting with someone who didn't have a clue how to help, he disconnected the chat

 

Just_me
Level 10

Terrible Support at QBO

@jhcct   That's what they do.  You can either post your question, here in the community, or start another chat.  

 

You can also use the Search bar at the top of nay page here in the community, to see if someone might have had the same question or issue.  

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