Enter Bills . . . Pay Bills

[John]

Do most people with advanced knowledge of QB regularly use the Enter
Bills and Pay Bills feature?

If so . . . Why?

I stoped using it years ago. I just write a check and select To Be
Printed (it's usualy already checked) and enter the date I want to pay
it/print it. Then I print it when it's time or, if I pay on-line, I
uncheck To Be Printed and enter a check number of PC
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I find using enter bills is good for scheduling cash flows. I can enter
the bill, file it, and when it's due it pops up on my daily to do screen
and I pay it. If you stack and pay the bills at once then why not just
use write checks? I think it's what works best for you is the way to do
it.



John wrote: Do most people with advanced knowledge of QB regularly use the Enter Bills and Pay Bills feature? If so . . . Why? I stoped using it years ago. I just write a check and select To Be Printed (it's usualy already checked) and enter the date I want to pay it/print it. Then I print it when it's time or, if I pay on-line, I uncheck To Be Printed and enter a check number of PC - ____ _ | __\_\_o____/_| <[___\_\_-----<------------------<no spam please>< | o'

[Adrian Boliston]

"John" <seetheplane@my.sig> wrote in message
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Do most people with advanced knowledge of QB regularly use the Enter Bills and Pay Bills feature? If so . . . Why?

I can't think of any other way of entering a bill onto the system other than
"enter bills" or as a "journal entry", and doing a journal is more fiddly.

"Pay bills" is handy if you are paying a batch of bills at once, but "write
cheques" is fine if you are paying an single bill.

[Lisa C]

"John" <seetheplane@my.sig> wrote in message
news:72f8m116to5e4lf4pj8a03dv0vqr6sulhu@4ax.com... Do most people with advanced knowledge of QB regularly use the Enter Bills and Pay Bills feature? If so . . . Why?
Because there is a difference between recurring bills such as phone,
insurance, rent, etc. and vendor invoices.

Because a single vendor may send me several invoices in a single month. Our
company may have daily orders from different vendors. Each invoice may cover
multiple items purchased, and some invoices are allocated to one or more
specific customer jobs.

Using enter bills allows me to enter as much detail as I wish for each
vendor invoice. I can enter a single account, job materials, for instance,
for consumable items I do not keep specific inventory on. Or I can enter
individual items kept in inventory. I can associate each expense item with a
specific customer.

When I receive a monthly statement, I use the 'pay bills' window to select
specific vendor invoices due and payable.

For items such as rent and vehicle payments, I use the method you described,
entering a check to be printed. I usually schedule those transactions to
enter automatically.

[CHANGE username to westes]

If you have only 10 bills a month, entering a check directly might be a
reasonable thing to do. Personally I prefer to see our expense account
numbers on the check stub as documentation over what bill payments will give
on you the stub.

The reason to use Bills is when you have so many bills due that no one can
accurarely get a sense or what your cash flow requirements are going to be.
It's a wonderful planning tool to see what is coming due in the future.

--
Will


"John" <seetheplane@my.sig> wrote in message
news:72f8m116to5e4lf4pj8a03dv0vqr6sulhu@4ax.com... Do most people with advanced knowledge of QB regularly use the Enter Bills and Pay Bills feature? If so . . . Why? I stoped using it years ago. I just write a check and select To Be Printed (it's usualy already checked) and enter the date I want to pay it/print it. Then I print it when it's time or, if I pay on-line, I uncheck To Be Printed and enter a check number of PC - ____ _ | __\_\_o____/_| <[___\_\_-----<------------------<no spam please>< | o'