Payroll

Use these topics to set up your payroll records and to create paychecks for your employees.

Payroll categories are the building blocks you'll use to create your employees' paychecks. Payroll categories include wages, accruals, deductions, expenses and taxes. Depending upon your needs, you may have many records for each type of payroll category. Payroll categories require a little extra effort to set up but you'll be rewarded on payday, since they make paycheck creation fast and error free.

Paying employees

This brief overview provides links to all the major topics about employee paychecks, including those below.

Creating paychecks

Use this section to learn how to create employee paychecks. The basic steps in this procedure are the same whether you're paying employees electronically or by printed check.

Printing paychecks

Use the topics in this section to create paper paychecks for your employees.

Reviewing your payroll information

Use this section if you need to find information about paychecks you've already recorded and to learn about the tools you can use to analyze and manage your business's payroll expenses.

Closing a payroll year and starting a new one

Printing year-end payroll forms

Use this section when you're ready to print W-2 statements and other year-end payroll forms.

_{For a complete list of related topics, see Payroll Table of Contents.}