Hello @user79893! Thank you for coming back to the Community with your question and providing all that information. I'm happy to explain costs and their relation to your Projects.
The costs of goods sold and labor costs from your tracked time won't show in your Project Reports until Payroll is run in QuickBooks Online. It's set up this way because technically it's not a cost until those employees are paid. Since you're using a third-party payroll provider, you won't be able to see the cost of that time under the project since QuickBooks doesn't recognize that payroll has been run.
We definitely would love to hear your feedback on this setup and any suggestions you have to make this run smoothly for your business. The best place to do this is from within your account: Submit Feedback.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to do this, it truly helps us improve our product. As always, please reply to this post with any additional questions you may have. We're all eager to help!