I am a one-person company organized as an S-corp. Because I am by myself, the state of Washington will not issue me an Employment Security Department (ESD) number/identifier. 

QBO requires this to set up payroll at all. This was not required in the desktop version. So I am at an impasse. The state government is not going to make a special accommodation for me, and it would appear that QBO is not robust enough to recognize a business as small as mine that isn't a sole proprietor. So far I have only had an urging from Intuit that I go get an ESD number.

Suggestions?