Bookkeeper QuickBooks ProAdvisorPayday, and where this practice stops

Setup is the part before anyone is paid. The company is registered where it must be. Pay items exist for the ways you actually pay people. A contractor is not hiding in the employee list, and an employee is not hiding in the contractor list. You can open the login yourself. Deductions you really withhold are the ones on the screen.

We will look at a login that is wrong. Items named twice, a tax that is not actually owed, a person who left and is still active. That is still setup. It is repair of the tool, not operation of payday.

Calculating the cycle, approving the hours, and sending the money stay with you and with the provider you already run. We do not become that provider. We do not sit in the chair on Friday morning. If the request is for us to run each payday, the answer is no, and it is the same answer on every call.

The software company's own payroll product is theirs. Using their screen, or any other provider's screen, does not move the send button onto this practice. The button stays where the money leaves the account.

Payday is a repeating transfer of other people's money, with deposits that have their own deadlines. A practice that also closes the month and prepares the return should not also be the one pressing send, because a missed send is a different kind of failure from a late close. Splitting those jobs is deliberate, so a missed send is never confused with a late close.

The monthly close still sees the result. Wages, taxes withheld, and the payments that followed should agree with the accounts. Disagreement means that month stays unfinished. Seeing the result is not the same as running the cycle.

Say on the form whether you need the login repaired or whether you hoped we would send payday. The second hope gets a no. The first one can be scheduled.