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April 12, 2021
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QB rep who can actually do something about Online Payroll Account on Hold

  • April 12, 2021
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I initially set up my clients QuickBooks Online as well as his payroll in the beginning of March. A couple of days later his payroll account was put on a hold pending additional verification. My client uploaded a copy of his DL that was requested through the portal and waited.
I contacted QB through the help on his account a week later because the hold had not been lifted to find out from the rep Brian that the uploaded file had been corrupted. I am not sure why QB would not have contacted my client to advise this. At any rate, Brian sent an email directly to my client so that he could upload a copy of his DL directly to EMS fraud on 3/31/21. The agent Brian called me, the bookkeeper, to verify that the file had been uploaded and that it would take 3 business days for the hold to be lifted.
I contacted QB again via the help as on April 8th, the hold was still not lifted. I was informed by Jean that issue was escalated. I advised that this was not acceptable as the client has been paying for the payroll service and now I will need to manually file the payroll reports and manually enter in all of additional payroll that has been run outside of QB. (The payroll should have been able to be run completely within QB for the month of March.) I asked to speak with a supervisor and was advised that the individual only has the ability to email supervisors. I insisted that I needed to speak with a supervisor regarding this unresolved situation and was told that one would call me in 5-10min. Needless to say, no one called me back.
Here it is Monday April 12th and my client's payroll is still on hold. I went through the QB help again and spoke with Jackie. She looked into the situation and was only able to tell me that she is escalating the matter and that it will take 3 business days.
This is terrible customer service. The first level QB help is great for the issues that they actually are able to assist with. It is a very poor business practice when there is no way for me to speak directly with someone "higher up" that can better inform me or even resolve this matter.
I have now spent over 3 hours trying to resolve this issue for my client and he is still unable to run payroll at this point.
If QuickBooks truly wanted to provide superior customer service, they would give the ability to actually speak with someone who can address matters that are beyond the first level of support.

12 replies

June 9, 2022

I am ready to seek legal action unless the hold on my account is removed! I have spoken to everyone under the sun at QB about this hot mess and no one knows what to do! Yesterday I spent 4 hours on the phone and the day before it was 5 hours with CS, and that doesn't take into account the 3 days at the beginning of the week, over 15 hours on the phone!  AT QB WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS WHO TO REMOVE THE HOLD????  This all began when our bank account was hacked and I was advised by the police detective to change banks. Sounds easy to do but not with QB. Oh and I'm getting charged $100 for the delay in getting payroll out in time. Seriously, NO MY FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!  

Gini Steinke

Ovarian Cancer Connection

January 12, 2023

Same thing is happening to my company. I got an email from fraud department to email them driver license 6 month of bankstatement and Company Ein Certification. First I thought this is spam I realized after logging in and doing payroll my account is on hold.  I felt uncomfortable sending all these documents just via a regular email from my account back to the fraud department, so I contacted quickbook payroll to tell the specialist that I think it is not secure to send these documents in an email,  the quickbook specialist  let me download the documents through the secure server of quickbooks with the insurance it will get to the fraud department and they will contact me in 48 hours that was 12/30/22. Until know  today 1/12/23  I haven't heard anything- I am calling everyday to get this problem solved and  I received a phone number from a quickbook specialist yesterday and I called the number today to find out it is the quickbook collecting department and he has nothing to do with it but some how he can look into it and he told me there are no files downloaded and I should resend the documents as an email. He clearly didn't care that sending an email with sensitive documents might be risky. I am very disappointed and I am worried that documents might get in wrong hands with the company. 

January 13, 2023

I'm going through the same exact thing! This has really put a bad taste in my mouth with QuickBooks. Has anybody been able to come to a resolution with this? I have emailed the Payroll Fraud Department every day for the last few days and nobody responds! No one tells me anything via phone or chat. This quite literally may be the worse customer service I have ever experienced!

January 13, 2023

Hello there, @jbarnescpa.

 

I deeply understand your situation. Please know that this is not the service we want you to experience in QuickBooks Online Payroll. We always ensure to aid all unexpected issues on account on hold.

 

For your protection and your client, we place your account or transaction on hold to review it further. 

 

Moreover, for an account that's been on hold, our support team has the tools to view it. With that, we will need to connect to them since they are the ones who can access your account in a private place. Please follow the steps on how to reach out to them.

 

Here's how:

 

  1. Go to Help.
  2. Select Search.
  3. Click Contact Us.
  4. Enter the Payroll account on hold.
  5. Select Continue.
  6. Click Chat with us or Have us call you.

 

You can learn more about removing the payment on hold status for deposits by visiting the links I've provided:

 

 

Keep me posted if you have further questions about your payroll. I'm happy to lend a hand to help. Stay safe!