QuickBooks Basic Payroll Up To 3 Employees 2009 [OLD VERSION]

by Intuit

Product 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

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001ECMFZQ
• Item model number: 406580
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,293 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #72 in Software > Business & Office > Business Accounting > Accounting

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Easily pay employees yourself within QuickBooks and work with your accountant on taxes. (Requires QuickBooks 2006 or newer.)

Manage your payroll in 3 easy steps.

Get started quickly with an easy step-by-step setup guide. Click to enlarge.

Use convenient Direct Deposit (additional fees apply). Click to enlarge.

Easily pay employees yourself within QuickBooks and work with your accountant on tax filings.

Basic Payroll helps you:

1) Easily Pay Employees
Simply enter employees' hours in QuickBooks and with just a few clicks, Basic Payroll automatically calculates earnings, payroll taxes and deductions for you.

Easily print paychecks yourself, or use convenient Direct Deposit (additional fees apply).

2) Instantly calculate payroll taxes
Basic Payroll instantly calculates federal and state payroll taxes for you. Simply write checks to make the tax payments yourself.

Intuit Payroll's team of compliance professionals works with tax authorities to help keep your payroll tax rates accurate and up-to-date.

3) Work with your accountant on tax filings
Basic Payroll does not include any tax forms. However, you can easily generate reports and work with your accountant on tax filings.

Easily pay employees yourself in QuickBooks and work with your accountant on payroll tax filings.

Get started quickly

• Get started quickly with our easy step-by-step setup guide

Easily pay employees

• Create paychecks in just a few clicks: Basic Payroll automatically calculates earnings, payroll taxes and deductions for you
• Easily print paychecks yourself, or use convenient Direct Deposit (additional fees apply)
• Stay current with federal and state payroll tax rates with automatic updates in QuickBooks
• Run customizable reports anytime to see how payroll affects your bottom line

Instantly calculate payroll taxes

• Instantly calculate federal and state payroll taxes

Work with your accountant on tax forms

• Easily generate reports and work with your accountant on payroll tax filings--no tax forms included

Get help when you need it:

• Get free callback support from our payroll specialists, even choose a time that is convenient for you
• Receive 24/7 access to our online Payroll Answer Center

Run payroll within QuickBooks

• Basic Payroll works within QuickBooks so you don't have to enter the same data twice

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Key Features Gone from Standard Payroll + Trust Damaged, February 3, 2009

By 

capeyankee (Chatham, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickBooks Basic Payroll Up To 3 Employees 2009 [OLD VERSION]

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Registration Scam, May 20, 2009

By 

Knight "Knight" (Metairie, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickBooks Basic Payroll Up To 3 Employees 2009 [OLD VERSION]

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.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T USE QUICKBOOKS PAYROLL!!!!, March 25, 2009

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James P. Andersen "andersenjp" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Basic Payroll Up To 3 Employees 2009 [OLD VERSION]

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!!!!!