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:

1. Gather the necessary information to enter the scheduled payroll.
   • Your employee names.
   • The employees' pay frequency (how often you pay your employees).
2. From the Employees menu, choose Payroll Center.
3. Click the Pay Employees tab.
4. Select the Payroll Schedules drop-down menu and click New.
5. Enter a name for the payroll schedule in the What do you want to name this payroll schedule? field.
6. Click How often will you pay your employees on this schedule? drop-down arrow to specify the pay frequency for the payroll schedule.
7. Click OK.
8. 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.
9. 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!