It's nice to see you here in the Community, miketropical.
I'd be delighted to share the steps to set up a reminder for direct deposit payroll in QuickBooks Desktop.
Setting up a reminder to prompt QuickBooks to start payroll isn't currently offered in the Desktop version. However, as a workaround, you can set up a payroll schedule to serve as a reminder. Since you're using the direct deposit feature, you'll need to enter the date two days before the check date to process payroll on time.
To set up your payroll schedule:
- Gather the necessary information to enter the scheduled payroll.
- Your employee names.
- The employees' pay frequency (how often you pay your employees).
- From the Employees menu, choose Payroll Center.
- Click the Pay Employees tab.
- Select the Payroll Schedules drop-down menu and click New.
- Enter a name for the payroll schedule in the What do you want to name this payroll schedule? field.
- Click How often will you pay your employees on this schedule? drop-down arrow to specify the pay frequency for the payroll schedule.
- Click OK.
- Choose whether this schedule should be applied to all employees with the same pay frequency.
- Select Yes to globally assign this payroll schedule to all employees with the same pay frequency.
- Select No if you want to manually assign the payroll schedule to specific employees.
- When finished, your payroll schedule will appear in the table under Create Paychecks.
For detailed information, you can check out this article: Set up, update, or delete payroll schedules in QuickBooks Desktop.
You can always get back to me if you need anything else. Have a great day!
