Vendor Discount so difficult in QB online

QuickBooks Online (QBO) has a different structure and feature set compared to QuickBooks Desktop, SHELLY. The absence of a vendor discount option in QBO can be due to its focus on streamlined processes and integration with online features.

While QBO allows for discounts on sales transactions, it doesn't offer a dedicated discount field for vendor bills. This is a difference between QBO and QuickBooks Desktop. 

On the other hand, you can just print the actual check with the discount since you'll need to add the discount as a separate service item on the bill or other expense transactions in QBO.

Here's how:

1. Go to the Expenses tab and select Vendors.
2. Choose the vendor you want.
3. Click on the check you want to print.
4. Ensure the discount is included in the check details.
5. Select Print check to print.

You can check out this article for more details about tracking your bills and recording the payments in QBO: Enter and manage bills and bill payments in QuickBooks Online.

As a future reference, let me add this article as a guide in entering refunds and vendor credits in QBO: Enter vendor credits and refunds in QuickBooks Online.

We're always here in the Community if you have clarification in managing vendor discounts in QuickBooks.

@SHELLY LEWIS 

You nailed it.  This is an area where Desktop was much, much better.  If you need the discount taken to print on the remittance, you need to create a vendor credit for the discount amount and apply it to the bill.  Not very convenient. 

However, I've never had a vendor not be able to figure out the term discount when it wasn't printed on the remittance, and I paid well over 100,000 bills that way in QB.  They can always determine the, say, 5% discount by the net amount of the check vs. the bill amount.  Credits, on the other hand, for sure need to be printed on the remittance.

How can we try to get this changed in QB online?  This is more work to have to calculate and enter the discount manually and so crazy it didn't carry over from desktop.  I am just switching to online and it is driving me crazy and makes no sense!!