Adding and paying bills
For purchases made on the account, adding bills to QuickBooks and paying them a few days before they become due is the best way to manage your cash flow. If you add bills to QuickBooks as you receive them, you can run reports that will show you which bills are due or nearly due, so that you can plan ahead and ensure you have sufficient cash on hand to pay them. Unpaid bills are also referred to as accounts payable, or A/P for short. In the following sections, we will first cover how to add bills, and then we will discuss how to pay bills in QBO.
There are a number of apps available to help automate the bill entry process. From the left navigation bar, select Apps. In the search box, type the keywords bill pay, and several options, such as Bill Pay for QuickBooks Online and bill.com, will display. To learn more about the Intuit Apps marketplace, refer to Chapter 10, Handling Special Transactions in QuickBooks Online.
