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rjwbailey
October 26, 2018
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Change payroll schedule

  • October 26, 2018
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I just ran my first payroll today to get everyone up to date for October. How do I now change the regular pay date to 6th of each month, starting 6th November, which is the correct regular pay date?

 

The edit option under Accounts & Settings > Payroll has gone?

 

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Thanks, but constantly deleting the pay periods is not really a practical solution as I assume it will then delete all those previously entered payroll transactions from the P11/P32 reports etc? They certainly disappear from the payroll history screen, which is no good at all.

What I need is a payroll product that matches the functionality of QB desktop - which I have been using for the last 12 years - can PaySuite do that? I really need to able to run irregular pay runs in addition to the main payroll schedule.

It's rather disappointing to be constantly implored to switch from QB Desktop to Online, only to find the functionality of QB Online is so lacking compared to the desktop product!


Hi rjwbailey,

 

I agree that deleting the pay periods every time is not ideal. I would therefore recommend you to switch to PaySuite, as this will allow you to run more than one payroll at a time. I am not familiar with the Desktop payroll to compare, however PaySuite is the best option for anyone wanting to run multiple payrolls.

 

Thanks, Carly. :)

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EmmaM
October 26, 2018

Hello

 

Can I just ask which payroll you are using?

 

If you click on employees on the left hand side if you are using Paysuite it will have powered by Paysuite in the top right otherwise it will be our Quickbooks Online Payroll

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rjwbaileyAuthor
October 26, 2018

Hello again Emma :)

I am using QuickBooks Online Payroll.

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Anonymous
October 26, 2018

Hi rjwbailey,

 

Thank you for confirming that.

 

To change the pay date on QuickBooks Online Payroll you will have to delete Octobers payroll so that you are able to edit the payroll settings again. To do this click the Employees tab and then select the period from the Payroll History section. On this screen click the Bin symbol. This will roll your payroll back to the first period. You can then press the Cog wheel and Account and Settings. On the Payroll tab you can change the Pay Schedule so the pay date is 6th of each month.


You will then need to run payroll again for Oct to get to Nov. When you make the submission to HMRC please select Correction to Previous Submission as the reason, so it overrides the one you have already done rather than duplicating.

 

If the payroll tab is no longer showing in account and settings I would recommend to use Google Chrome and to clear your cache and cookies. For more information on how to do this click here.

 

Please let me know if there is anything else I can help. :)

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