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February 23, 2021
Question

Employee billable rates

  • February 23, 2021
  • 46 replies
  • 130 views

I am looking to update the default billable rate for our employees in Quickbooks Online. I have searched everywhere but cannot find the list of employee billable rates, only cost rates and product/service rates.

This is for the rate that is auto-entered on timesheets as the billable rate.

46 replies

K_Siman
Level 1
February 23, 2021

Hello @mariekeele! It's good to see you here in the Community. I'm happy to help you with your employee rates. 

 

The rate that comes into TSheets from QuickBooks Online is the cost rate you set up on the Employee Information page within QBO. That's the time that you use to pay your employees for payroll. The time that you use in invoices will use their billable rate.

 

 

In their profile is also where you can make their billable rate default as well. This can't be updated on a company level, it's done individually within their profile. You can, however, run a report to give you a list of the employees and their billable rates. Here are those steps:

  1. Log in to QuickBooks Online as the admin.
  2. Go to Reports on the left menu and search "Employee Contact List".
  3. Click on the little gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of the report.
  4. Click on Show More under Change Columns.
  5. Select the box next to Billable Rate.
  6. Click on the white space to apply (there's no save option).

 

 

 

 

If you have any further questions or need any clarifications, please don't hesitate to respond to this post. All of us here in the Community are eager to help. :)

September 20, 2021

Hello,

I hope I am not late in writing about this subject.  We have a new employee that I cannot seem to get his billable rate to default when I bring his timesheet up in the weekly timesheet recording that I do weekly.  All of the other employees' billable rates come up as a default, and I would like our new employee to do the same.  The example given does not appear in the the report section.  Am I missing something.  I noticed this original answer was given this year.  Than you  very much!!

March 11, 2022

That did nothing for me. I know how to manually enter a billable time, but when my time cards are auto uploaded from QuickBooks Time, the billable rates all come over with $0 on them! I have to manually go into each time card entry to change the billable rate. Can you try to please READ my question a little bit deeper before answering next time? 


I have the same problem, the billing rate for all employees change to zero for no known reason. I wonder if it has something to do with cookies or some other item Intuit has the browser saving.