Hi, Sparkling. If you want to pause or skip a payroll cycle, you can choose not to initiate a payroll run on your scheduled pay date.

I also suggest checking if you have recurring direct deposits or Auto Payroll turned on. Turn off the auto payroll to ensure payments are not processed automatically. To do it proceed to this article: Set up and manage your Auto Payroll.

Then, when you are ready to resume payroll, go back to the Payroll tab and process the next payroll as usual for the upcoming pay period.

At this point, QuickBooks doesn’t have a Pause button, but skipping a cycle by withholding action on payroll processing will effectively act as pausing.

To manage, print, and tailor payroll reports in QuickBooks Online (QBO). Visit this article for guidelines: Run payroll reports.

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