Do NOT follow the steps below if you are a current subscriber to any Intuit Payroll Service.

Important: When your company file is set up for manual payroll calculations, QuickBooks inserts a zero amount for each payroll item associated with a tax.

To set up manual payroll:

In QuickBooks, go to Help > QuickBooks Help (or F1 on your keyboard).

Click the Search tab, enter "manual payroll, " and press Enter.

Select the topic: Calculate payroll taxes manually (without a subscription to QuickBooks Payroll).

Under Set your company file to use the manual payroll calculations setting, click the manual payroll calculations link.

Click the Set my company file to use manual calculations link.

Close and reopen QuickBooks.