How do we allocate a payment made by direct debit on account to a supplier ..eg 150 per month to accountant

Hi @e1asl 

I guess you will receive an invoice at the end of the year & these are payments on account?

In that case, click +NEW > Suppliers > Cheque

• Enter the Supplier Name.
• Enter DD in the Cheque Number.
• Category = Accounts Payable
• Description = Payment on Account.

When you receive the invoice later in the year, you will have all the payments showing as credits on the supplier's account in QBO.  Use these credits to pay the bill as normal.

Hope this helps.

This method does not seem affect the supplier balance???

This method does not seem to work!

Hi Nicola Puffin

If you have created an expense/s as paul72 has suggested then the open balance, which is displayed in the top right hand corner of the suppliers page will increase by the amount/s of the expenses you have created. Have you selected/entered the creditors/accounts payable account in the category column of the expense/s?

Then once you receive the bill from your supplier you will create the bill > select make payment and you will be able to select the expenses to make up the amount of the payment.

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@Nicola Puffin  wrote:

This method does not seem affect the supplier balance???

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Yes, it does.

Would you like to give a tiny bit of detail of what you're aiming to do rather than just joining an old thread while in possession of unnecessary question marks???

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@Nicola Puffin  wrote:

This method does not seem to work!

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Then maybe you're doing something wrong!

Where I used 'Accounts Payable', you may have 'Creditors' as your A/P account.