Setting up COS for a Staffing Company

Welcome to the QuickBooks Community, @JulioNic.

In QuickBooks Online (QBO), we have this Project feature that helps you to be organized and track all moving parts. 

If you want to post that cost to Payroll as COS, then you can use the Project feature. Then, link it to your payroll. Here's a video tutorial for more visual guidance on how this works: How to Use QuickBooks Projects to Track Project Income & Costs (w/ QuickBooks Online Payroll). 

As for your other concern, in QuickBooks Online Accountant, we have the reclassify tool which gives the option to batch edit transactions. Like you can reclassify accounts, classes, and sales tax code in bulk. 

However, there are also accounts that you can't move. Some of these are:

• You can change the class for invoices, sales receipts, checks, or bills with items (products or services) on them. However, you can’t change the accounts.
• You can’t change the payment account (bank or credit card) for expenses.
• You can’t change the account or class for inventory adjustments since they’re connected to your inventory shrinkage and asset accounts.
• You can change the expense account for billable expenses, but not the income account for the related income transactions.
• You can manage your payroll transactions in the Payroll menu.

To know more about how this process works, here's a great resource that you can read: Reclassify or move multiple transactions at once.

As always, you can get back to me if you have further questions. I'm always around to help. Have a great day!

Hi Mirriam,

Thank for your quick response.  I will definitely look into the "project" link and update this post.

Thanks also for your citing on the "reclassify". I've been using that to reclassify 2019 and 2020 into the classes and departments (Locations) that I created to track performance.

Cheers,