QuickBooks Payroll ServiceHow a first talk becomes setup.
How to use this site, what a first talk is, and when setup actually starts. Effective 7 October 2026.

Who these terms are with
Services on this site are provided by Steven Palmieri, Dallas, Texas. Opening these pages means you accept this page. The fence around the work sits on the disclosures page, and that fence is part of these terms.
What the pages are for
The writing here is general, for an owner who pays people or is about to. It is not a reading of your roster. Visiting does not make you a client. Rules move, and two companies with the same headcount can still face different deposit schedules, so check anything that would change your return before you rely on a paragraph.
A short call is only a conversation
A calendar time creates no engagement and no duty on either side. We will say what the accounts look like and what a scope would cover, including the honest case where the provider is already drafting and you do not need us yet. Setup starts when both of us sign a paper that names the work and the fee.
Scope, price, and stopping
The signed paper defines the job before it starts. The fee matches that job. Work outside it is priced before it is touched. Either side may stop in writing. Fees earned to that date are still due, and your records go back to you.
What the work needs from you
Setup is only as true as the roster and the bank you hand us. Hours, rates, and who counts as an employee stay your decisions. When a provider draft and the bank disagree, we say so. We will not describe a payday as ours when the click was yours.
The pages themselves
Words, layout, and pictures belong to the practice that publishes them. Read them, print them, quote them with credit. Republishing the site, or feeding it to a model, needs written permission.
Pages are offered as they stand. We correct them and we keep them up. We do not promise a page will never be wrong or never be offline. Nothing here cuts away a liability the law refuses to limit.
A note is not a signed scope
A form on this site is a note, not a contract. The fields ask for a name, a phone, and a short description of a missing account or a first hire. Sending them asks for a reply. It does not set a fee and it does not reserve the work.
Photographs here show ordinary objects. They are not a client's shop and they are not a result. The credits page names the photographer and the license for each one.
If a sentence on these pages and a sentence in a signed engagement ever disagree, the signed engagement governs the work. These pages stay general. Product names on the pages are trademarks of their owners, and using a name to describe your login is not an endorsement in either direction.
Which law governs
Texas law governs these terms. A dispute is heard in the courts of Dallas County.