How to Void a Payroll Check in QuickBooks Desktop
If you need to reissue and reprint the check, just follow the instructions on how to pay bills as discussed in our previous tutorial on printing checks on QuickBooks Desktop. Voiding a check means turning the balance to zero while deleting a check means removing the transaction completely from QuickBooks. Voiding and deleting a check are two different things. Watch the tutorial video below and the step-by-step instructions that follow. You can purchase QuickBooks Desktop Pro, one of our best small business accounting software, with a 33% discount for your first year. Intuit offers special discounts on its QuickBooks Desktop. To help you determine which QuickBooks product is right for you, read our comparison of QuickBooks Desktop products. If you don’t have a QuickBooks Desktop product yet, you can choose between QuickBooks Desktop Pro, QuickBooks Desktop Premier, QuickBooks Enterprise, or QuickBooks Desktop Accountant. The process of voiding a check is similar in all QuickBooks Desktop products. This tutorial will help you learn how to void bill payment checks and payroll checks already issued in QuickBooks Desktop. In this case, you’ll need to print a replacement check and void the old or stale-dated check. You might also run into a situation where your employee lost their paycheck or held it for too long (stale checks). If you have created a bill payment check or payroll check with the wrong details or issued the check to the wrong person, you can void it in QuickBooks Desktop. QuickBooks is very forgiving of users who make mistakes when issuing checks.