Thank you for the reply, but that was actually not my question.

I don't want to enter paychecks produced elsewhere, I want to create paychecks in Quickbooks online, enter hours, and have it calculate expenses and accruals and allocate them to the correct expense and liability accounts using payroll items, just as I do with Quickbooks Desktop. 

Is this capability just non-existent in Quickbooks Online without using the entire Quickbooks managed payroll service?