This article is intended to insure that readers are aware that you can still prepare payroll manually inside of QuickBooks.Ī large number of mom-n-pop businesses who are starting to grow have been preparing payroll for their few employees using the old fashioned method of looking up tax tables to process payroll deductions and then hand-write or type paychecks. While many small businesses want to automate payroll within their accounting, many cannot afford a payroll subscription, especially in light of other payroll related costs. While QuickBooks ProAdvisors’ spend a lot of time teaching our clients how to use QuickBooks Payroll services, of one type or another, not many of us even bother to let our clients know that there is an ‘old fashioned’ alternative to Intuit payroll offerings. As QuickBooks payroll subscription prices rise, fewer small businesses may decide to move ahead with automating their payroll, they will simply hang-on to those paper tax tables they have been using for the last few years and continue with their manual ways of doing payroll. This increase in cost will not only impact QuickBooks users, but also ProAdvisors who either provide payroll services directly to clients, or assist clients with QuickBooks Payroll. Intuit recently announced that their most popular payroll subscriptions are going up in cost. There is an alternative to QuickBooks Payroll Subscriptions, it's called 'Manual Payroll'.