If my clients are subscribed to QuickBooks Standard Payroll, can I do their state payroll forms for them using my QuickBooks Enhanced Plus subscription?

Accountant or Bookkeeper Use Only:

You can use your Enhanced Payroll for Accountants subscription to process payroll and create state and federal forms for up to 50 EINs as long as all payroll processing (creating paychecks, paying payroll liabilities, creating federal and state quarterly forms) is done by you on your registered copy of QuickBooks.

Shared Payroll Processing with Clients:

1.       If your clients create paychecks but you (the accountant) file their FEDERAL payroll tax forms, you can use your clients” Standard or Enhanced Payroll subscription.

2.       If your clients create paychecks but you (the accountant) prepare their STATE payroll tax forms, you can use your clients Enhanced Payroll subscription.

NOTE: You cannot use your own Enhanced Payroll subscription to process or print state tax forms for your clients if they handle part of the payroll process, in this case your client must subscribe to Enhanced Payroll.

Updates to Enhanced Payroll Plus for Accountants

 Accountants spoke, and we listened. A recent change will allow accountants who are subscribed to the Enhanced Payroll Plus for Accountants service to use their subscription to prepare state forms for their clients who are subscribed to only QuickBooks Standard Payroll.

This means that accountants can now use their Enhanced Payroll Plus for Accountants subscription to offer payroll services to clients for whom they provide end-to-end payroll services as well as those clients for whom they provide only quarterly federal and state filing services, no matter what level of subscription the client is on (Standard or Enhanced). With this update, Enhanced Payroll Plus now works the way accountants told us they want to work with their clients.

Here”s how it works:

• You must have a company file that is subscribed to the Enhanced Payroll Plus for Accountants service.
• When you open the company file of a client who is subscribed to either Standard Payroll or Enhanced Payroll, you can access the State Forms feature and use it to prepare the client”s quarterly and annual state payroll tax forms.

Note: Your client must also be using QuickBooks 2005 because the State Forms feature is not available in previous versions of the software. Both your payroll subscription and your client”s must be current and up to date, and both of you will need to have downloaded a payroll update in the past 45 days, in order to validate that your subscription is current.

Remember: Your client needs to have their own QuickBooks Payroll subscription only if they are handling some of the payroll processing tasks themselves, such as entering hours and printing paychecks. If you handle the entire payroll process on behalf of your client, then you can simply add them to your Enhanced Payroll Plus for Accountants subscription, which can be used for as many as 50 companies, and you can save your client the cost of purchasing their own subscription.