You can purchase a subscription from Intuit if you would like, but if you want to use the free manual payroll option instead, you have to correctly enable it in QuickBooks. To fully integrate ClockShark with QuickBooks Desktop you must have some kind of payroll enabled. Choose the topic titled “Calculate payroll taxes manually (without a subscription to Quickbooks Payroll)”. This should bring up a new page featuring manual payroll and various topics. From here, choose Search enter “manual payroll” Enter. Next, access Help Quickbooks Help (F1 shortcut command). I have gathered that there is no 'activate manual payroll' option in qb mac 2013.(right?) So now that I'm hiring my first employee (who will be part time/hourly, 2 days per week), what is my best way to handle payroll? I'd like to avoid paying $20/mo for the quickbooks payroll service. Super confused after reading loads of posts here. 00:00:40 – Why use manual payroll 00:02:00 – Pros and cons of manual payroll 00:02:47 – Demo example in blank QuickBooks file 00:09:34 – Use timesheet (creating jobs for an example) 00:12:36 – How to create a paycheck (pay employees) 00:16:13 – How to add new payroll item 00:21:50 – Verify profit and loss amounts after paying.
