Easily pay employees yourself, and work your accountant to file tax forms

Product Information

1 Year Subscription

QuickBooks Basic Payroll 2008 lets you pay any number of employees.  Complete your payroll in three easy steps - pay employees, pay scheduled liabilities, and file tax forms.  It's easier than you think to bring employees onto your payroll and be compliant with tax laws.  

Basic Payroll - a low cost payroll solution!  Download up-to-date tax tables right in QuickBooks financial software. Enter your employee information once, and QuickBooks will use this information each payday to automatically calculate deductions and help prepare paychecks. Or, you can use optional Direct Deposit^†. Give QuickBooks reports to your accountant and have them fill out payroll tax forms for you, or use these reports to fill in payroll tax forms by hand.


^†Subscription, Internet access, Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) and currently supported version of QuickBooks required, sold separately. Additional fees may apply; including sales tax where applicable.


Product Features

Designed for businesses who want to automate payroll, but have their accountant prepare federal and state tax forms. (Requires QuickBooks 2006 or newer )^†

Subscribe and set up your QuickBooks Payroll 
Subscribing unlocks the payroll features in your QuickBooks software. Once you've subscribed, your QuickBooks software will help you with a step-by-step guided approach to setting up your payroll process, including information about your company, your employees' wages or salaries, their bank account information, and your company's year-to-date payroll amounts. Enter information only once, and QuickBooks will remember it each time you run payroll. You can update, add, or delete information or create customizable reports anytime.

Download the latest tax tables into QuickBooks
QuickBooks uses the Internet to check for and download the latest federal and state tax tables. It automatically checks to see if new tax rates are available each time you run payroll and prompts you to install them first.

Enter employees' time right into QuickBooks
You can easily enter the time for your hourly employees directly into payroll. Or, if you track your employees' hours using the optional Time Tracker feature in QuickBooks, it will automatically flow the employees' hours into payroll.¹ You enter salaried employees only once, and QuickBooks remembers the salary amount each payday.

Run payroll and issue paychecks
Once you've entered your employees' hours or payroll amounts, taxes are instantly calculated and your paychecks are ready to print from QuickBooks anytime. Or you can use the convenient Direct Deposit feature to have employees' pay transferred straight to their bank accounts (additional fees apply). Your QuickBooks software automatically calculates employee earnings, deductions, and federal and state payroll taxes. It automatically applies the amounts to the correct accounts in your QuickBooks register and provides customizable, detailed reports. 

Easily track your liabilities
You can use QuickBooks Payroll reports to help you pay and file your payroll taxes. Or, have your accountant prepare them for you.

If You're an Accountant Once your clients subscribe to QuickBooks Basic Payroll, they can send you their QuickBooks files for you to review and adjust using your QuickBooks software. As an accountant who has subscribed to Enhanced Payroll for Accountants, you will be able to process federal and state payroll tax forms when working on clients' company files so long as you are working on your own system.

¹ Time Tracker requires QuickBooks Pro, Premier, or Enterprise Solutions. Time Tracker is not available in QuickBooks Simple Start.

^†Subscription, Internet access, Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) and currently supported version of QuickBooks required, sold separately. Additional fees may apply; including sales tax where applicable.

Windows Requirements

• Requires an annual payroll subscription, Internet access and Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN).  For payroll on QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise Solutions (all sold separately), Basic Payroll requires QuickBooks 2006 or higher (updated to the most current maintenance release).  Not compatible with QuickBooks Online Edition or QuickBooks Pro for Mac.
• Windows 2000, XP, Vista
• 450 MHz computer (1 GHz computer recommended)
• 128 MB of RAM (256 MB of RAM recommended)
• High-speed Internet connection, such as DSL, cable modem or T1
• Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows or above
• Export to Excel requires Excel 2003 or above
• Active X component required (you will be prompted by Internet Explorer to download this if you don't already have it)
• Adobe Reader 6.0 or higher is required for printing checks
• 4X CD-ROM drive

NOTE: This title is non-returnable once the software package has been opened.