FYI,

The pop us says "Only Quickbooks Administrator or or an External Accountant can perform this action. You must reopen the company file and login a the Admin or an External Accountant to do this. 

Hi TL1960,

I appreciate you for adding a screenshot. Let's modify some settings to get rid of the error.

You'll receive this error message since the full payroll setup is set to only the Administrator or an External Accountant can access it. For the Full Access role, your bookkeeper can still change the payment method and filing method when setting up payroll.

To resolve the issue, you'll need to remove sensitive reporting. Here's how:

1. Sign in as the QuickBooks Admin.
2. Go to the Company menu, then select Setup Users and Passwords, and then Set Up Users.
3. Highlight the user, then select Edit User.
4. Follow the Change User Password and Access wizard to remove sensitive reporting access.

Furthermore, you can check this article on how to manage user roles: Create and manage user roles.

You can always post in the forum whenever you have concerns about setting up payroll.

Thank you so much! Between you and the QB Forum Admin, I'm sure I have a good solution and will check back to mark this as done when I get the settings changed. 

I received the same error when trying to import a file. I logged in as Admin to review the user who is assigned Accountant, AP, AR, Banking, Finance, Full Access, Payroll Manager, Payroll Processor, Time Tracking roles. When I review permissions for the user, most items are "Full" or "Mixed" including the Timer Import and Timer Export functions, so why is the user receiving that error?