Payroll Success and Completion
What the submit confirmation tells you, and where a payroll lives once it's on its way
Right after you submit
Submitting lands you on a short confirmation card, not a full report page:
- A checkmark and "Payroll [run code] submitted"
- The pay period, gross, net, and how many checks were numbered
- A line of context that depends on where the run landed — either that it's been sent to Check and will flip to Paid automatically once the bank confirms, or that it's been recorded and will disburse once your payroll provider is connected
- Three buttons: View run detail, Reports, and Dashboard
Submitted doesn't always mean Paid yet
Most submissions land on Paying out, not Paid — the confirmation screen says "submitted" either way. Money is already committed at that point; it's the bank's confirmation that's still pending. See Payroll Run Status for what that status means and what (if anything) you need to do about it.
The permanent record: run detail
Once you move on from the confirmation screen, the run's lasting home is its own detail page, reachable anytime from Payroll History. It shows:
- A status pill matching the statuses in Payroll Run Status
- The same breakdown you saw before submitting — funding panel, headline totals, fee & tax breakdown, coding summary, and payee detail by union & module — now read-only. See Payroll Breakdown and Details and Payroll Totals for how to read it.
- Two quick-download buttons at the top: Register and QuickBooks CSV
The union fringe figure on this page links out to a printable union-reports document instead of the Union Reports wizard step, since that step is only part of building a run, not viewing a finished one.
Reports
The full report catalog — payroll register, union remittance, QuickBooks CSV, consolidated register, and 1099 filing preview — lives on the Reports page, not on this confirmation screen. A run's reports become available once it's past Draft and In review; see Reports Overview for what each one covers and how to generate it.
Follow-up
A few things worth doing once a payroll is on its way:
- Confirm payees actually received their pay once the bank has settled it
- File any union reports with deadlines tied to this pay period
- Archive the reports you need for your own compliance or bookkeeping records
Next steps
See Payroll History to find this run again later, Reports Overview for the full reporting catalog, or Payroll Run Status if a run doesn't seem to be moving.