How do you edit a past payroll? I have a paycheck for an employ where vacation pay was not added to it, and i realized weeks later.

Hi userjkwcontracting,

It's great to see new members joining us in the QuickBooks Community. You'll find that it's an excellent way to connect to other community members and get answers to your questions. QuickBooks Online gives you several options for setting up vacation pay in your payroll module. You can accrue hours, which sounds like the initial set-up may have been for your employee. You can have it paid out on each paycheque, and you can tell QuickBooks that you record it outside of the program. I can point you in the right direction for making changes to your payroll.

You mentioned the paycheque should have had vacation pay on it and didn't. So the first thing is to check on your vacation pay set-up. Follow these simple steps to check the vacation pay set-up:

1. Go to Payroll from the left navigation menu.
2. Select the Employees tab.
3. If the employees have time accrued, you'll see the hours listed here. To view a specific employee's set-up, click on the employee's name.
4. Beside the first column, labelled Pay, click on the Pencil icon.
5. Scroll down to the fifth section, Let's create a new vacation policy for [employee's name]. The current vacation policy will be in the box, and the available vacation hours and balance will be listed here as well. 

If the right policy is in place, click done. To edit the policy, create a new policy, or make adjustments to the available vacation hours or balance, check out this article: Vacation accrual FAQ. In the case that you're creating a transaction to payout the vacation hours, the article also explains how to pay out the accrued hours.

With paycheques, you can delete the most recent paycheques; however, you're unable to edit them in the payroll module. Your best option is to contact a support agent and complete a pay edits form. As this one was weeks ago, it would require deleting each cheque created after and recreate them to complete this yourself. Here's an article that goes into detail about the process: How to delete a paycheque.

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If you need any further assistance, let me know. I'm here to help. Have an amazing day!