Product Description

Easily pay employees yourself within QuickBooks and work with your accountant on payroll taxes. Basic Payroll automatically calculates earnings, payroll taxes and deductions. Print paychecks yourself or use convenient Direct Deposit (additional fees apply). Stay current on federal and state payroll tax rates with automatic updates in QuickBooks. Basic Payroll does not include any tax forms. But, you can easily share data with your accountant to work with you on tax filings. Get started quickly with our step-by-step setup guide. If you need help, get free callback support from Intuit payroll specialists.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1953 in Software
• Brand: Intuit
• Model: 406580
• Released on: 2008-10-06
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Dimensions: .30 pounds

Features

• Create paychecks in just a few clicks
• Automatically calculate earnings, payroll taxes & deductions
• Easily print paychecks yourself, or use Direct Deposit (additional fees apply)
• Run customizable reports anytime
• Stay current on federal and state payroll tax rates with automatic updates

Customer Reviews

Key Features Gone from Standard Payroll + Trust Damaged
I have used QB Standard payroll for years most recently purchasing Standard 2008 for unlimited employees a year ago for $99 discounted at retail. It calculated and printed most federal forms (941 included) and automatically filled preprinted W-2 and other annual reports and forms. Standard has been discontinued and Basic does NOT print or fill out these forms for you.

Be aware you will need to obtain forms and do this all manually -- unless you spend a lot more money on the Enhanced version. A forced feeding by Intuit which in any economy breeds resentment.

I use Payroll with QB Pro / TurboTax for Business / QB Point-of-Sale Pro / TurboTax Deluxe and Quicken -- and I am a stockholder. I have read the many complaints on Amazon for years not all of which are justified by any means. But this plus an Internet security vulnerabilty in POS Pro discovered in a credit card industry required security scan last fall (not from an alert by Intuit although they knew it was there) which still has not been properly addressed by Intuit is very damaging to my trust in Intuit.

So if you are using QB to pay employees and also use a POS version with a server and at least one client (network) computer be advised that there is a vulnerability that could make it easier for an attacker to obtain a lot more than credit card information -- employee SSN other personal ID data.

I am still trying to work with Intuit to find a solution -- not just for myself but also for all other customers (few of whom know the risk that exists). I will update this further over time.

Registration Scam
My how the mighty have fallen. Quickbooks has instituted a registration scam. You are required to call in to a foreign call center to get an activation code. What you must endure to get the code is endless questioning about the confidential information on your business accompanied by horrible high pressure sales pitches for every conceivable useless product. Quickbooks has systematically increased prices and broken out core pieces of its software to make them subscription services. This is the last time I will deploy quickbooks. Will start looking for a reasonable competing product ASAP.

DON'T USE QUICKBOOKS PAYROLL!!!!
DON'T USE QUICKBOOKS PAYROLL!!!!!

I am a QB Pro Advisor and have many QB clients. I am fairly happy with QB overall, but their payroll systems have a MAJOR SECURITY FLAW in them that everyone should know about. I lost a client over this and suffice it to say I'm not happy. QB Enterprise Edition also has this flaw by the way, and QB does not know what to do about it. They don't seem to care either. Apparantly, even though you can lock people out of QB payroll transactions etc., if they have access to the general ledger, then they have access to detail payroll data. The reason for this is that QB posts the detail of every paycheck to the G/L. So if you want to prevent someone in the accounting department from seeing payroll (a typical client need), user permissions doesn't do the trick. Because even though they can't see the payroll transactions in the payroll module, they can see every gross payroll transaction for each employee in the general ledger!!! Great job designing this part of the system QuickBooks!!!!

DON'T USE QUICKBOOKS PAYROLL!!!!!