QuickBooks Payroll Service is a subscription you activate to enable the payroll features in your QuickBooks Desktop Software. Depending on the features you need, you can choose from Basic, Enhanced or Assisted Payroll.
A QuickBooks Payroll Service is a subscription which you can activate to make enable the payroll features in your QuickBooks Desktop Software. You can choose from Basic, Enhanced or Assisted Payroll according to the features you need. Mac users use Intuit Online Payroll as their payroll add-on. QuickBooks Payroll service does not work with QuickBooks Mac. As a standalone software, it only exports transactions to QuickBooks Desktop and Quickbooks Online (without Quickbooks Online Payroll).