Effective Remedies To Resolve the “QuickBooks Error PS038” error code

QuickBooks is an accounting solution for several growing small and medium-scale businesses at a faster pace than they ever will. It provides great features for finance management along with a seamless, intuitive interface for carrying out daily business activities with much ease. Although, sometimes even these great characteristics couldn’t keep technical bugs from appearing on the user’s screen making it quite difficult for the user to keep up with their daily tasks. “QuickBooks Error PS038” generally occurs whenever a user tries to process payroll using QuickBooks. The primary reason for the error code to trigger on the screen is that the current version of QuickBooks in use is not supported anymore. Moreover, there could be other similar reasons and there appropriate measures which are being mentioned in further topics in the blog.

It can rather be believed that the error “QuickBooks Error PS038” can be resolved if proper steps of its removal are taken and applied in the order as given in the post. While, if that doesn’t help, you can call on the toll-free 1-(855)-856-0042 for better technical help.

Causes behind the appearance of “QuickBooks Error PS038”

All the possible reasons are stated under-

1. If a user is still on an older version of QuickBooks instead of the latest release.

2. The data in the company files could be impaired or in bad shape resulting in errors.

3. The QuickBooks payroll service in use has not its tax tables updated to the recent release.

Preventive remedies for weeding out “QuickBooks Error PS038”

Solution-1: Resend paycheck post-QuickBooks version update

This is the primary solution linked to the error code as mentioned above.

1. Go to Windows Desktop. Locate the ‘QuickBooks Desktop’ icon. Right-click on it to select ‘Open.’

2. On the menu tab, choose ‘Employees’. Below that, select the ‘My Payroll Services’ option. You will see another option below it titled ‘Send Usage Data’, select it when it appears.

3. In the next process, ensure whether the data has been sent without interruption. Retry the payroll update process.

Solution-2: Search if the paychecks are accumulated under ‘online to send’

1. Open ‘QuickBooks’.

2. On the menu bar, choose ‘Edit’. In the drop-down, select ‘Find’, then go to ‘Advanced’.

3. You will see a filter option with the title ‘Choose Filter’. Now look through the ‘Filter List’ in the window and go to ‘Detail Level’.

4. Click ‘Summary Only’. Then revisit ‘Choose Filter’, look through the ‘Filter List’ again and select the ‘Online Status’ option this time.

5. A list appears on the right pane, choose the ‘Online to send’ option from it. Start the search for the paychecks which have not been sent by selecting ‘Find’.

If that doesn’t work either, you shall try running ‘Rebuild and Verify’ utilities to repair any data corruption in the company files.

Closure.

We are concluding our blog post. By and large, the post we wrote about the “QuickBooks Error PS038” error code provides the right set of information for our users along with the necessary remedies that will enable them to take control by weeding out the error code. We tried to resolve all our user’s queries through our post. Notwithstanding, if there is anything left out relevant to the topic which you need help with, dial on the helpdesk number 1-(855)-856-0042 for tech help.