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Add your new employee to QuickBooks Payroll
by Intuit•63• Updated about 5 hours ago
Learn how to set up your new employee in QuickBooks Online Payroll and QuickBooks Desktop Payroll.
Congratulations on gaining a new employee!
Before adding your employee in QuickBooks Payroll, Get your employee’s info such as W-4 info and banking details.
If you need to change an existing employee’s info, see Edit or change employee info in payroll instead.
Step 1: Add your employee
Note: Not sure which payroll service you have? Here's how to find your payroll service. |
Step 2: Complete the new state setup if you added an employee who lives/works in another state
If your employee lives and/or works in a different state from where your business is located, you may need to set up and pay taxes in that state. Check out Set up employees and payroll taxes in a new state to learn more.
Get employee info
- W-4: Employee’s Withholding Certificate of personal data such as name, address, social security number, dependents and adjustments. Your employees can enter this info when you invite them, but you are required to keep a copy of this for your records.
- I-9: A form used to verify employment eligibility in the United States. Your employees must have valid Social Security numbers. Don’t accept an ITIN in place of an SSN for employee identification or for work. An ITIN is only available to resident and nonresident aliens who aren't eligible to work in the U.S. and need identification for other tax purposes. An ITIN starts with the number "9" and is formatted like an SSN (NNN-NN-NNN).
- Email address: Send your employees an invite to add their personal info and have access to their pay stubs and W-2s online.
- Work location: The address where your employee works.
- Pay info: Employee’s salary or pay rate, other pay types, as well as pay schedule (how often you'll pay them)
- Direct deposit info: Employee’s bank routing number and account number. Employees can add up to 2 bank accounts.
- Pay history: This only applies if you're setting up your QuickBooks payroll service for the first time. If that's true, and you've paid your employees already this year, you’ll need their year-to-date pay stubs so that you can have accurate year-end totals for taxes, etc. We'll walk you through this, but be sure you have this info.
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