If you have employees to pay, a few pieces need to be ready before your first payroll run. AccountEdge handles the payroll itself — calculating pay, taxes, and deductions. Depending on how you pay your employees and how you file your forms, one or two additional services may apply to you:

One check before you enroll in anything: some subscriptions already include payroll — the Bookkeeper subscription, for example — so take a look at your My Account page before adding it. If you're still choosing your subscription, Which AccountEdge Is Right for You includes the payroll question.

Once payroll is on your subscription, Setting Up Payroll for the First Time walks you through it in order — enrolling, country setup, tax tables, your employees, and your first run. US and Canadian payroll each have their own setup guide. Everything beyond setup — running payroll, benefits, filing, state and provincial requirements — lives in the Payroll collection.

You don't need your whole company setup finished before starting payroll. You do need your accounts list and your employee cards in place first — payroll builds on them, and both are early steps in Setting Up AccountEdge in the Right Order. Once those exist, payroll setup can run alongside everything else. If you have a payday deadline, work backward from it: tax tables and direct deposit approval are the two steps with wait time built in.