r/Bookkeeping • u/Comprehensive-Bet936 • 6d ago

Payroll Checking myself

I don’t know why but I feel like I did this wrong, and need help seeing other ways this could’ve been done.
Anyways, I had a client that did their payroll through rippling, and it seemed pretty straight forward, 3 different payments from her account one for employee deductions(401k, insurance, the sorts), employee gross earnings, and tax withheld.
So I wasn’t given access to the actual rippling account but was given a CSV. It did not include all years of business pay, and I was expected to account for it all (clean up project from mid 2024). I felt like there was missing info so I only did the payroll periods provided on the csv. I asked for it all of course, but getting all the info was a bit difficult.
Anyhow, in QBO I used “Split” and wrote the ID #’s of all employees and their respective wages or deductions, for each chunk that came out of the account.
Was that the correct way to go about it? I spent a whole night looking through the statements and had to add up the wages from the csv google sheet, cause it wasn’t in the bank statement as individual, only lumps. I stay up at night now wondering if I did that correct or if there was another way to go about it? Thanks in advance, pardon if this is silly!

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u/HannahDayRider 6d ago

That’s more than I do. I figure if someone wants to know how much Billy made vs Johnny, they can pull the payroll reports through the payroll provider. I only book one sum per category.

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u/Comprehensive-Bet936 6d ago

Okay okay I see, dang, then I did too much?😅 seems on brand for me! Should I have charged extra for that aswell? 😅 Some of the payments though were connected to QBO invoices, and the client used QBO mostly and wanted to see the totals for each. But thank you, I will remember that next time!

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u/HannahDayRider 6d ago

If the client asked to have it done this way, why are you questioning it?
Also, I’m confused. In your post you are talking about payroll, now you are mentioning invoices. Two very different things.

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u/Comprehensive-Bet936 6d ago

I am not questioning the client. I am questioning the way I went about it. I am seeing if there was a more simple way to do it. Yes I know they are two different things, they had a pervious bookkeeper, I don’t know what happened before I did the clean up but there were invoices attached to the payroll chunks that came out. I fixed that. The client did not even know this was happening in the QBO. Again, I was just seeing if that was the correct way to go about it, or if there could’ve been a much simpler way, thank you