Choose QuickBooks payroll if
You pay people in the United States, your books are in QuickBooks Online, and you want payroll from the company that makes your accounting. It ships today.
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Payroll software for QuickBooks, or payroll that posts to Ledger.
Intuit’s payroll is built to pair with QuickBooks Online for employers in the United States, and it ships today. Pay is designed for businesses paying people in India, prepared from Team and posted to Ledger, at one price for the business. Here is where each fits, on facts that hold.
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Product design preview · Pay has not shipped. All features, screens and prices are proposals.
Pay has not shipped yet.
Everything on these pages — the screens, the features, the prices — is Centilio Pay as designed. Pay has not shipped: it sits in the third wave of Centilio tools, after Team and Ledger, and there is no app, no beta and no launch date yet. At launch it is designed to run payroll in India only. We would rather set out the whole design and say so plainly than publish a thin page; join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Side by side
Centilio Pay and QuickBooks payroll, side by side.
Checked against the vendors’ public pages and published guides during research in 2026. We compare how each tool charges and where it pays people, not what it charges; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
| Centilio Pay | QuickBooks payroll | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Payroll inside a business suite, prepared from Team and posted to Ledger | Intuit’s payroll for QuickBooks users, sold in 2026 under the QuickBooks Workforce name |
| Where it pays people | India at launch (designed); other countries by demand | United States, all 50 states |
| Taxes it handles | PF, ESI, TDS and professional tax, filings prepared (designed) | US federal and state payroll taxes, year-end forms |
| Works with | Team, Ledger, Spend and Hire (designed) | QuickBooks Online, in plans that pair the two |
| Pricing model | Per business, proposed: Free up to five people, then $19 a month | A monthly base fee plus a fee per employee |
| Availability | Not shipped — wave 3, in design | Shipped and mature |
Choose
Which one to choose.
Choose Pay if
You pay people in India, your books will be in Ledger, and you want the run prepared from Team and explained before you approve it, at one price for the business. You can wait for wave 3.
The books
Pick payroll by where your books are.
Payroll ends in the books. The simplest pairing is payroll from the company that keeps them.
If your accounts are in QuickBooks Online and your people are in the United States, Intuit’s own payroll is the natural pair, and plans that combine the two exist for that reason.
Pay is designed to post every approved run to Ledger, Centilio’s own accounting tool, and to export registers to spreadsheet and CSV files. It is not designed to post into QuickBooks, and we would rather say so here than let you find out later.
If you switch, later
What moving from QuickBooks payroll will take.
- Switch at a clean point — the start of a month, ideally the start of a quarter — so filings do not straddle two tools.
- Bring people, salary structures and year-to-date figures, so TDS for the rest of the year stays right.
- Run one month in both and compare every net pay before you stop the old one.
- Ask your accountant to check the first filings from the new tool before the due date.
Questions
About switching.
Does Pay post payroll into QuickBooks?
No. Pay is designed to post to Ledger, Centilio’s accounting tool, and to export spreadsheet and CSV registers. If your books are in QuickBooks Online, Intuit’s own payroll is built to pair with them.
How does Intuit charge for payroll?
As of research in 2026, Intuit sells payroll for QuickBooks in tiers priced as a monthly base fee plus a fee per employee. Check Intuit’s page for today’s plans and prices.
Does Pay run US payroll?
Not at launch. Pay is designed for India first, with its statutory compliance, and other countries follow by demand.
Can I move from QuickBooks payroll to Pay?
If your people are in India, that is the plan: switch at the start of a month or quarter with year-to-date figures, and run one month in both. If they are in the United States, Pay will not run their payroll at launch.
Is Pay available now?
No. Pay is in the third wave of Centilio tools and has no launch date yet. Join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Will Ledger replace QuickBooks for the books?
For many small businesses Ledger is designed to, and its own compare page sets out where each fits. Ledger has not shipped either.
Hear first when Pay opens.
Pay is in the third wave, after Team and Ledger, and it starts with India. Join the waitlist and you will hear before the announcement. Tell us how many people you pay, in which states, and what goes wrong in your month today; that shapes the design more than anything else.