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November 17, 2025
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QuickBooks Online Payroll expenses missing from QuickBooks Online Advanced register (profit & loss)

  • November 17, 2025
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My business uses the following products: QuickBooks Online Advanced; QuickBooks Online Payroll Elite.

 

I recently noticed that there are payroll expenses (specifically an allowance set up as a Payroll item > Pay Type) that are not showing up consistently in my P&L reporting. Today I contacted Payroll Elite about this issue and demonstrated the problem. I was assigned a case number, but after 1 hour and 25 minutes on the phone, the issue was not resolved and ultimately a separate issue for me to resolve was created.

 

The new issue was created when the agent told me to go into Payroll settings > Accounting and "Update transactions according to current preference settings"... what this did for the date range selected was reclassify all my payroll expense transactions currently in my Wages expense account, to a different, new "Wages" expense account. So now I have to clean up (merge) two different Wage expense accounts in my Chart of Accounts, in addition to still not having my original issue resolved by this action.

 

If anyone in the community is using the above products (Online Advanced and Payroll Elite), I wonder which product support team I should be contacting for crossover or integration issues between the two products? Before I ended my call with the agent today, it was agreed that I had found a technical issue. But I was not able to stay on the line long enough to get an INVESTIGATION# or get it resolved. I don't feel the agent fully understood my issue to begin with and was candid when it came to not being an expert in the "bookkeeping" aspect of QuickBooks.

 

If someone internal from QuickBooks Support decides to respond to this post, my unresolved case number is 15147773033. Please let me know the appropriate support team to contact. I would hope if the issue I am having is "INVESTIGATION" worthy, this would be escalated.

 

Best answer by cody_a

I hear you, @MK_APWC. Dealing with complex data and reporting issues, especially after extensive troubleshooting, is incredibly challenging.

 

To ensure your specific situation is handled by the right experts, I'm forwarding all the details of your case to our Next Level Help team. They will carefully review your Community comments and prior support history to understand the full context of this ongoing issue. You can expect an expert to reach out to you by phone within 1-2 business days with the next steps.

 

If anything else comes up in the meantime, please feel free to reply here. I'm here to help you get this sorted out.

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cody_a
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November 18, 2025

I hear you, @MK_APWC. Dealing with complex data and reporting issues, especially after extensive troubleshooting, is incredibly challenging.

 

To ensure your specific situation is handled by the right experts, I'm forwarding all the details of your case to our Next Level Help team. They will carefully review your Community comments and prior support history to understand the full context of this ongoing issue. You can expect an expert to reach out to you by phone within 1-2 business days with the next steps.

 

If anything else comes up in the meantime, please feel free to reply here. I'm here to help you get this sorted out.