Good morning, @dbland07666. 

It's great to see you back in the Community. Let me point you in the right direction to get an answer to your question about running a manual payroll. 

I recommend contacting our Customer Support Team to be sure on how the dates would set when running these details. Here's how: 

1. Go to the Help icon in the top right-hand corner. 
2. Press the Contact Us button. 
3. Give a brief description of the issue and hit let's talk. 
4. Scroll down and select to Get a callback. 

It's that easy! 

Keep us updated on how it goes. It's my priority that you're able to get an answer to your question as soon as possible. Have a great day! 

For anyone lurking, I did call support and spoke to an agent who said that yes, I could run it on 8/23 and yes, it would produce the paychecks and yes, the date of the check would be 8/31.

I'm glad you found you can run manual payroll on 8/23, and it would produce paychecks with the date of 8/31, @dblando7666. 

Please don't hesitate to reach out to the QuickBooks Community anytime. We are always here for you. Take care! 

I want to add something important for lurkers.

To print the paychecks, you must use voucher checks because it uses the 2nd and 3rd sections (the voucher parts) as the paystub.