One of the most important features of QuickBooks Desktop that enables you to pay your taxes and employees on schedule is the payroll. QuickBooks Desktop's sophisticated features and services make it simple to manage the accounting and financial services. "QuickBooks error 30159 Can't Verify Payroll Subscription Error 30159," however, can appear on your screen along with the warning that "QuickBooks has encountered a problem and needs to close." We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. This comprehensive blog will guide you through the troubleshooting methods and potential reasons why you may be seeing the problem.
What Triggers QuickBooks Error Code 30159?
Take a look at the points below to get familiar with the possible factors that can trigger error code 30159 in QuickBooks Desktop:
- Your QuickBooks payroll subcription might not be active
- Possible data damage or corruption to your QuickBooks company file
Instant Ways to Troubleshoot QuickBooks Payroll Error 30159
In this section, we will discuss the stepwise instructions to fix the issues we discussed above, which are responsible for QuickBooks error 30159. Perform the stepwise instruction carefully or connect with QuickBooks professionals for further assistance.
1. Verify your QuickBooks payroll subscription
To ensure you receive tax table updates and have other services active, an active payroll subscription is required. First, check if your subscription is active. If it is not active, proceed to reactivate your payroll by following the steps below.
Here’s how to check the billing details:
- Sign in to your QuickBooks Desktop using the admin credetials. Or as a Primary Admin.
- Go to the Employees menu and then click on Payroll Centre.
- Navigate to the Payroll tab and scroll down to Subscription status, then click on Manage my account.
- Now, you will whether the payroll subscription is active and which payroll service you use.
If it’s not active, proceed with the below steps to reactive it:
The best method to activate your payroll subscription is using QuickBooks Desktop company file. Here’s how to reactive your payroll susbcription:
- use the admin credntials to sign in to your admin.
- Scroll down to Status and select Resubscribe.
- Finally, adhere to the on-screen instructions to reactiate the payroll subscription.
2. Verify and Rebuild your company file data
Running the Verify Data utility automatically identifies issues with your company file or data damage, and the Rebuild Data utility rebuilds those damages.
Proceed with the below steps to learn how to make use of the utility:
Verifying the company file data
- Go to the Window menu and select Close All.
- Select the File menu at the top and choose Utilities from dropdown.
Hit on Verify Data. If you see:
- QuickBooks detected no problems with your data—You don't need to do anything more because your data is clean.
- An error message—To find out how to resolve it, look it up on our QuickBooks Desktop help page.
- Your data has lost integrity—The file was found to have data damage. To repair it, rebuild your data.
Rebuilding the data damages
- Navigate to File at the top menu bar in QuickBooks.
- Choose Utilities from the dropdown and hit on Rebuild Data.
- To make sure your data is safe and protected, QuickBooks will ask you to create a company file backup, click OK.
- Choose the location to save the backup copy such as file folder or your Windows desktop, then click OK. Make sure not to replace the existing backup company file or you can simply save it using a new name. Type a new name in the File name and click on Save.
- When you receive the Rebuild has completed message, click OK.
Summary
Finally, we have reached the end of this blog, covering the possible causes why your QuickBooks fails to verify the payroll subscription and causes QuickBooks error 30159 and the stepwise instructions to troubleshoot those factors. We hope this has helped you return to your payroll processes without interruptions.
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