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When running the Project profitability report in QuickBooks Online (QBO), the option to include the payroll expenses is unavailable. As a workaround, you can run the Project profitability and Time cost by employee or vendor report and export them to excel. Once the reports are exported, merge them to add the payroll expenses in the Project Profitability report.
To run the reports, here's how:
Project profitability:
- In the left menu, click Projects.
- Select the project's name.
- Go to the Project Reports tab.
- Click View beside Project profitability.
- Select the export icon and choose Export to Excel.
Time cost by employee or vendor:
- In the left menu, click Projects.
- Select the project's name.
- Go to the Project Reports tab.
- Click View beside Time cost by employee or vendor.
- Select the export icon and choose Export to Excel.
To know more about how the Project feature, see this article: Set up and create projects in QuickBooks Online.
Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do to help. I’m always around to further assist. Have a great day.