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Intuit is a service small businesses can use to manage payroll and access human resource services. It can calculate, file and pay business payroll taxes automatically. Intuit’s flagship products are TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint. The company is in 20 locations across nine countries.
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Reviewed Dec. 29, 2020
Do not give them access to your bank account. I have took hours and hours of my time on four separate occasions trying to get them to quit billing me for a service that I canceled 6 months ago. They keep telling me it’s taken care of and they hit my account for 49$ every month to this day. They do not have competent support employees. I bet they don’t have to have a high school diploma. Beware!!!
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2020
This year (2020) the To Do List is not updated with tax payments due in a timely manner. Twice our tax payments were delinquent resulting in a fine. It is impossible to get customer service by phone. They will only chat and still cannot resolve this issue. In previous years, once payroll is processed the To Do List is immediately updated with both the Federal and State taxes due pertaining to that payroll. Now you have to log in days after processing payroll to find it on your To Do List. The Tax Liability page does show the amounts due but gives no indication as to when it is due. Very unhappy with this product.
Reviewed Sept. 22, 2020
I have reached out to support twice to fix my program. I can not generate a state tax form 2020. The only way you can reach tech support is through chat. They do not and will not give you a number for tech support. After an hour long chat session my problem was still corrected. Quickbooks is the worst customer support ever!!!
Reviewed Aug. 5, 2020
If you purchase with them at full price it works fine. If you purchase the product at Amazon or elsewhere be ready to spend couple of hrs every month to resolve the subscription issues without solution. I purchased annual subscription in April and since then they messed my renewal date which should be 2021. Now it expires every month and they charge me 468.00. I call them. They reverse it and then the same story repeats. They couldn't fix the expiry date to reflect April 2021 and the support people just read the lines given to them and after hr. they hung up. I am stuck with it as I purchased subscription for a year. Their help desk is absolutely useless.
Reviewed July 16, 2020
It's amazing that a company that has this many bad reviews is able to stay in business. Shameful. Do not sign up for this service. When you need support you will find out their only option is a chat window that takes hours to get into and then the people respond so slowly a simple problem takes hours to get through.
Reviewed July 1, 2020
I have called Intuit Payroll and Quickbooks several times to activate the new software and move the old Ein number to the new software, so far I have called 3 times and every time they confirm it is connected yet they charge me for the new year, proving to them the new key of the new purchase, also no usage been done. Not only they charged me for it twice, also the service was very Rude, after requesting the activation confirmation none was given, and the person kept putting us on hold without letting us know we are on hold, the protocol is terrible, support is below zero. Do yourself a favor and go with another software for your business, don't waste your time because you will get screwed by intuit.
Reviewed May 24, 2020
Here we are 30 months after we cancelled our payroll services with Intuit and my wife was the one who caught the charge. Our bookkeeper never even caught it and just "assumed" it was a charge for Payroll services. The descriptor line simply states just that. Had it said "Intuit Payroll" our bookkeeper might have caught wind of this much sooner. We are now with Square Payroll and LOVE it. It is cheaper and has much better customer service and would have handled this situation better. My wife was present when I called and cancelled my payroll service (she was the one who dialed and handed me the phone actually).
We calculated that they stole over $2,000 from my account over the course of 30 months and the "best" they could do is to refund us 6 months worth. Mind you that I have an account with them for bookkeeping services and would have gladly taken the remaining refund as a credit on my account but this was simply the BEST they could do. Personally this isn't good business. As a business owner myself, there is no way I could justify charging someone for services they are not using nor intending to use. This isn't like a gym membership that you don't cancel and don't go.... This is a service that is no longer used and was cancelled...or so I thought it was. Intuit Payroll doesn't deserve business if they don't take of their current or past customers properly.
Reviewed April 26, 2020
Every since I received this card from job for direct deposit it has been a problem. They will not allow you to pay bills if address for bill doesnt match card, they also regulate what you can spend even if you tell them not to. I made a purchase and took it back the company refunded my money right away. And I have been waiting for days for my money to be put back on my card for a week and still have not received. When I call they tell me it could take 15 days even though the company released the money the same day I took item back. This company this card and their customer service reps are terrible along with the CSR supervisor.

Reviewed March 30, 2020
No Support and costs more time than it saves. Using an online payroll service that provides a full turn key service to submit forms and pay bills, you're likely going to have questions for them about for example: what forms they submit, if the forms were submitted, when do they submit the forms, when and how are payments made, etc.... When I called support to ask these questions, which many would call basic questions, the support representatives are unable to answer them.
Moreover, they have no option to escalate questions they can't answer to a higher tier. Their only option is to open a chat window (on their PC which you can't see) and commence with chatting with a higher tier agent in order to answer your question. This would be fine if they were able to provide a prompt response to your question, however I have found that it often takes on average an hour for them to get a response over the chat service. All of the while you are sitting there on the phone in silence.
When you ask to speak to a higher-tier yourself, they can't let you, and if you ask to speak to a supervisor, you're typically connected to someone who knows less about the product than the person you were talking to. And they also do not have any option for connecting you to a higher tier of support. Again, the questions I asked we're extremely basic questions as highlighted above and these are questions that anyone using their service would likely have when trying to understand what they're paying for (i.e. how the service works).
Now if something goes wrong with the service, it will be even much longer hold times on the phone. All in all, I calculated that I spent $2000 of my time on calls with them in the first month. I could have paid an army of accountants to do my payroll for years for that. So needless to say, this service did not save me time or money. It cost me dearly.
The best part of this story is when I went to cancel my service. I clicked the cancel service button on the site which didn't let me cancel. I just told me to call a number that was no longer in service. When I called the main number the support reps also didn't know how to cancel the service and told me there should be an option on the page, which wasn't there when we did a screen share. So I proceeded to spend 1.5 hours on the phone talking to 3 different representatives before I was able to get my subscription cancelled. If that doesn't highlight what I'm talking about, I don't know what does. Hopefully this help you avoid the issues I went through.
Reviewed March 6, 2020
I had an account with Intuit Online (Paycycle) for 15 years. I was Very satisfied. I closed my business in 2018. The IRS contacted me in March 2020 and said they need a 940 form that I evidently forgot to filed. Intuit online (Paycycle) payroll services refuse to help me. I've contacted them twice already and they just give me the run around. I finally found a hard copy in my files. I want everyone to know that if you go with intuit (Paycycle) for your payroll services you need to be aware of this.
Reviewed Feb. 27, 2020
What a shame, a great payroll product that easily integrated with the rest of my QuickBooks software. I believe Microsoft bought them and wow, changes really came downhill. I spent way too much time on the phone yesterday with a fellow who barely speaks English, was rude in putting me down, and did not give me an answer. If I could find another payroll software that would integrate with my QB software, I would change. I am sure they know it is not out there and refuse to offer good customer service and a quality, tested product. No stars.
Reviewed Feb. 13, 2020
I left Intuit Payroll as a customer approximately six months ago due to terrible customer service, long wait times and ever increasing fees. I called yesterday and after being on the phone speaking to someone and on hold for over 1 hour, I was informed that Intuit had made a mistake and the mistake could not be resolved. I am so glad I switched Payroll companies - and pay half the price!
Reviewed Feb. 12, 2020
I've been with Intuit online payroll since its inception. It was a fantastic program. I think they sold the company. I can no longer speak to anyone in the United States. All of the service reps are in the Philippines. They made a change to their program without beta testing it... Finding another payroll program. Will probably go with Gusto or Square.
Reviewed Jan. 28, 2020
Intuit is the worst company in payroll. We only have 4 employees and they are charging $159.90 per month where we have only 3 locations. When I called for refund they refuse to refund me back. I can't believe you are stealing money from the small business who just have 4 employees. You have been stealing the money from couple of months. I asked your representative how to deactivate if anyone not working so you don't charge the money from us. They said, "If you do not have employee in other state, we don't charge for it." Still you charge for the state where employees were zero. Lying and stealing, you are doing both the things together.
Reviewed Jan. 16, 2020
Nothing but issues since moving to Quickbooks payroll. Our accounting department has had all information to Intuit 2 weeks before our first payroll was supposed to run. We were notified the day before payroll that the documents we provided were not correct. Why wait until the day before to review payroll documents? The day of payroll our contact went completely cold. Did not return calls, emails, etc. our consultant finally got through to a manager and spent 5 hours on the phone making sure that payroll would be done by the 5 PM deadline. We were notified at 4 PM that payroll would be fine and not to worry. The contact that went cold had the nerve to email back at 5 PM, that everything looked good in our system...he didn't work on our account at all throughout the day!
The day of payroll we discovered the below errors.
1. Multiple employees had duplicate states withheld on first paycheck.2. 7 employees had previous W4 changed to new 2020 payroll. How? (We're still in the process of fixing this.)
3. Pay Period was screwed up from 1/1/20 to 12/31/20 after having spent 3 hours on the phone with them a week prior explaining that we would need payroll to run from the 1/1/20.
4. 1 employee had double his federal taxes taken out of his account. Again, how does this happen?
5. No employees received emails notifying them of their paystubs.
6. Once people did receive emails, they received errors logging.
I sent multiple emails to our Intuit contacts asking to receive manager contact details and an explanation of how something so critical could be handled so poorly. I still have not heard back. This has been the absolute worst customer service experience I've had, and Intuit needs to address the issue and fix it.
Reviewed Dec. 24, 2019
I don't even know where to start. It has been one disaster after another, with their software not working correctly, their support team being uneducated in their product, etc. Today I completed 7 HOURS of holding and support calls to them over the last 4 days. After being told my account was fine, then receiving and email that it was on Hold, then calling in and being told all was well, I get a letter that my account was suspended because they were unable to verify my information. To which I have faxed and emailed, and had the BANK fax, multiple time. I enter in my EIN and when I hit save, the system blanks it out, and says it's a required field. We did this over and over!!! I'm DONE!!!! What I can tell you other business owners, this is how you will go OUT OF BUSINESS. THEY ARE TERRIBLE. Not sure who to go to, I have a call with ADP, I pray they are better.
Reviewed Dec. 10, 2019
We recently transitioned from a paper based system to Quick Books payroll/Direct Deposit. Our first iteration has been a disaster. Confirmations were received about DD payments but QB didn't process the payments. There is an arbitrary limit set by Intuit but you don't know until after the DD is complete. Account spent days on the phone with Intuit. Still not fixed a week later. We sent paper checks to employees/contractors. We are exploring other options. Would NOT use QB to manage my shoelaces!
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2019
When preparing payroll - sometimes you have to "suspend" the process in the "middle" and return to finish at a later time - SAME DAY!! If you have adjusted the "pay date" to a Friday due to the "pay date" falling on the weekend, if you have to "suspend" processing for an hour or two, when you come back to complete the payroll, Quickbooks has CHANGED the pay date back to whatever weekend date it originally had when you started!!!! Frankly, this STINKS!
Reviewed Nov. 15, 2019
I have been using QuickBooks/Intuit since I started my business in April of this year. QuickBooks has been a fine software for my business, however, Intuit has been another story. The first issue occurred in October when I ran payroll, and they deducted the pay for one of my employees twice. Her pay was held for about 3 days, and then the correct amount was deposited into her account. The remaining was put back into my account. This was a problem, but it was resolved. The issue we incurred this month has been much more significant. Once again, my employees pay was drafted from my account twice. However, this time the issue has not been resolved.
I have called QuickBooks 5 times, and spoken to 4 different people. Everyone has provided a different answer as to how the money will hit the account, but everyone has been consistent with the issue taking 48 hours. The money has never been deposited to my business account, or my employees personal account. In fact, it has now been held for over 2 weeks, and my employee is extremely upset. If they were able to resolve the issue in a timely manner this would be a different story. However, it is extremely upsetting that a large payroll company is holding my employees pay well past the legal limit of when she should have been paid. I wish I had read some reviews before I had used this company for my business.
Reviewed Nov. 6, 2019
I had a small business I had to close. After I closed with Intuit and closed my business checking account of which Intuit used to withdraw their exorbitant monthly fees, they continued to attempt to withdraw from my closed account. They next are threatening with exorbitant fees and will only allow you to wire transfer the money (which adds to the costs) to them. NO opportunity to write a check. Then they do not want to close your account so that they can continue to attempt to withdraw money out of your account so they can continue to charge you exorbitant fees and threaten with credit collection agencies. This company is a dishonest company. NEVER give them your banking information for any reason. DO NOT USE.
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2019
Customer for 30+ years, retired 8/31/19, cancelled service after retirement sometime in September. Needed to file last quarter 941 (due in Oct). All info was imputed while still a subscriber. Intuit made me reactivate my subscription just to print out out the 941 report and charged me a minimum $45. They also informed me I will have to reactivate my account again in January to print out W-2's. Even though payroll stopped at retirement. Evidently a long time loyal customer or any customer for that matter, deserves no consideration when closing down a business or retiring. Not even to just print out a form. Sounds a little greedy to me.
Reviewed Oct. 14, 2019
I am sorry to read all these posts when searching for QB Payroll today. I am a very well trained QB ProAdvisor - and it even happened to me because business owners are busy working and these systems are supposed to help us not cause more damage. I had penalties and late filings and over two years after cancellation, I am STILL getting bi-monthly payroll and payday reminders. It makes me very nervous about the security of my data there. Has anyone taken legal action against Intuit Payroll? All your messages are sadly familiar to me. There are better options, even on a budget.
Reviewed Sept. 2, 2019
I purchased the 2019 Payroll Subscription through Amazon as I have been doing for the past 5 years. I purchased the 2019 subscription 3 months ago and every month my payroll account is suspended or cancelled. I got an email from QuickBooks today advising me that my cancellation has been processed as I requested. No, I did not request a cancellation. Every month QuickBooks gives me a new service key to re-activate my subscription. The QuickBooks' representative told me today that Amazon is at fault for the subscription cancellations even though the cancellation notices come from QuickBooks. QuickBooks is really good at not taking responsibility for their product and giving their customer the runaround. I know... I have been dealing with QuickBooks for 20+ years.
Reviewed Aug. 1, 2019
I have been using Quickbooks for about 20 years. I recently (last 5 years) started using their payroll capability. This spring I decided to go with ePay for all my quarterly payroll taxes. To my dismay, I had entered the bank account number incorrectly so all of the payments were returned by the bank incurring penalties for each occurrence. It is hard to believe that QuickBooks makes you believe that everything has gone perfectly when they cannot do a simple inquiry to your account to verify it! This is the 21st century people! Like so many other services that we use today (internet, garbage collection, telephone) this company is now a monopoly that is able to get away with with abuse of its customers because there is no affordable yet viable alternative.
Reviewed July 29, 2019
I have been a Intuit online payroll customer for the last 8 years. Own 4 separate businesses and 3 of them I signed up via Costco. Their Costco relationship ended last year. Received an email May 2019 about their fees changing in July 2019. The email stated that fees would be $24.00 for subscription and $2.00 per employee. I thought cool, the surcharge is going down from $28.00. What the email should have stated was that the per employee was going up to $4.00. More that doubling my payroll per employee. When I called support they didn't believe me. Had to upload a copy of the email. The next day I received a credit. And not on the business I called to complain about.
It's now Monday and I can't pull payroll reports because they are having their normal technical glitch. I have been waiting 20 minutes on hold to ask about the credit for my other account and their technical glitch. When January comes I'm moving all 4 of my accounts to someone other cloud base software or figure out how to do it myself. I am so disgusted with Intuit.
Reviewed May 22, 2019
Today, I had the pleasure of experiencing the most appalling treatment I've ever received from the Supervisor of Intuit Full Service Payroll, Jessica **. In January, 2019, I attempted to sign up as a customer for Intuit Full Service Payroll. I hopped on a call to get on boarded and was informed by the sales agent that they would not be able to provide service for my Company due to the employees not living in the United States. No problem at all, I said, and moved on with my day. My Company does thousands of transactions a month, and I happened to notice, today, May 22, 2019, that buried in my financial statements I was billed for Intuit Full Service Payroll for the last few months.
Darn, I thought to myself, as I Googled the customer support number to make what I thought would be a routine phone call to Intuit to get a refund for the account that never was. Golly, was I wrong, as what ended up taking an entire hour out of my busy resulted in me essentially being told by Jessica **, the supervisor of Intuit Full Service Payroll, to essentially go ** Myself, and that they would only be giving me a refund for one month. The notes in the customer support ticket dated January clearly noted they would not be able to open my account and to close it. Then why am I still being billed?! Well, apparently, they opened a second account for me, which also never made it through onboarding, and was not capable of providing me service!
Clearly an internal system error on their end. I've never even logged in since January and was told clearly by Intuit no service could be provided to me. But big boss lady Jessica, high on her Supervisor role power trip, tells me that they can't refund for nonusage!! You can't refund for nonusage when you told me I can't use your service and that you would cancel my account then went on to bill me for several months? Your system apparently created another account for me that I never used but get billed for? Even though I'm not allowed to use it? That is called stealing - when you take money from someone without their permission and refuse to give it back!
As someone who has built businesses based on customer experience and feedback for the last 7 years, Jessica ** provided one of the worst and most unreasonable experiences I have ever witnessed. All of the customer support agents that went back and forth with me, before passing me along to their big bad boss Jessica, all agreed with me and said it's ridiculous they aren't going to issue me a full refund. American Express has been notified to issue a chargeback to my account for your Company's fraudulent charges against me. Recommendation to all potential Intuit customers - stay far away - they are predators who will do whatever it takes to steal your money.
Reviewed May 1, 2019
I purchased QuickBooks with the payroll services that clearly was marked free payroll services for one employee upon purchase. I only have one active employee, this should work good for my extremely small business. Well once you input your bank account or credit card number you messed up big time. I was charged right away for a subscription fee of over $500 because I listed more than one but never activated the other. So I still have only one employee and never ran payroll on him through this software. Called the day I got the first charge and cancelled on the spot.
One year later I get another $506 charge for renewal fees. Are you kidding me. Thanks to this unexpected expenses my bank account went negative and bank charges are adding up. When called they agreed to reimburse in 3-5 business days. Since this is Wednesday looks like it will late next week. In the meantime I’ll be eating jam (2 pieces of bread) sandwiches. Don’t be foolish enough to waste your hard earned money.
Reviewed March 31, 2019
All info is correct, and Intuit will not send any notification emails about my paycheck anymore. I will have to use a different payroll service since Intuit doesn't care about fixing their email problems.
Reviewed March 14, 2019
They are incompetent. It is mid-March and we have 5 states that have not been filled as well our our Federal 940 and Q4 941. Each email we send takes up to 21 days to get a response. In addition, our Texas Q4 report received several notices all of which were forwarded to the taxnoticeresolution email address. The response we got was, "We have made several attempts to reach out to the Texas Workforce Commission tax agent for additional information in order to research your tax notice and have been unsuccessful. You will now need to contact the Texas Workforce Commission tax agent listed on the notice, in order to resolve this discrepancy. Your case has been closed at this time." I then called them and the person listed on the notice picked up on the first ring. How is a resolution to "go do it yourself." They are a garbage company and I cannot wait to stop using them when our busy season comes to an end.
Reviewed Feb. 4, 2019
If you can avoid Intuit online payroll. All their customer reps are in the Philippines and you are lucky to get someone with bad English. Every issue with Intuit payroll takes 5 calls to correct with each lasting about an hour.
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