Enter or Edit Your Payroll Service Key in QuickBooks

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For any QuickBooks user who aspires to work on
payroll, it is quite essential to at least know
how one gets started with QuickBooks payroll. We
will now start with Payroll Service Key. You get
this 16-digit key when you purchase/buy
QuickBooks Payroll. This key is specific to
your EIN and payroll service. When you will try
to activate payroll service in your QB file, you
will have to enter this security key.
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Steps to Enter or Edit Your Payroll Service Key
Follow the steps given below and you will be able
to enter or edit your Payroll Service Key
Step 1

• Obtain the service key that you will get in
  your email.
• In case you have not received your service key,
  then you can use the automated service key
  retrieval tool.
• Now, sign in through your Intuit Account and
  retrieve your service key.

Reasons behind not working of an automated tool
may be
There are some reasons behind non-working of the
automated tool

• There may be multiple payroll orders in the
  system for your company
• If the payroll product has been purchased from
  a retail store
• If the phone number of your business that you
  have provided does not match what Intuit has
  saved on its file.

Step 2

• Open the QuickBooks Service keys window.
• In case there is no payroll service in your
  company file, then you can choose Employees gt
  Payroll gt Enter Payroll Service Key.

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• And if you have a payroll service in your
  company, then choose Employees gt My Payroll
  Services gt Manage Payroll Services

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Step 3
Go to QuickBooks Service Keys window and then
Heres how

• Select Add, if no payroll service has been
  listed.

• Choose Edit if payroll service is listed.

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• Select Edit again and take note of the service
  key.

• Go to QuickBooks Desktop and remove the payroll
  service key.

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• Select Next and check if any message of Payroll
  Update appears.
• If yes, press Ok
• Finally, Now check and verify the Service
  Status if it shows ACTIVE.
• If  the status is Active then press OK.

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After all these steps, you will able to enter and
edit the service key. If you face an issue, you
can call on our QuickBooks Payroll Support Toll
Free Number 1-800-880-6389 and get the desired
support from our experts.