Hi there, cwintle94.
Thank you for visiting the QuickBooks Community and for choosing QuickBooks as your accounting software. Let me share detailed information on how you can record your expenses in our program. Then, to ensure you'll be routed to the right person to assist you further in selecting categories.
When you bought supplies or any items that use in your business are recorded as expense transactions in QBO. With this, I recommend going to the Expenses section and entering the needed details including the correct expense category. Before performing the process, I suggest consulting an accountant. They can provide suggestions on how to properly handle expense entries, especially with the category to use for this data.
Here's how to enter expenses:
- Click the + New button. Then, select Expense.
- In the Payee field, select the supplier.
- From the Payment account field, choose the account you used to pay for the expense.
- Go to the Category details section and select the appropriate expense category in the Category dropdown.
- Fill in the other necessary field.
- Click Save and close.
For further details, you can open this article: Enter and manage expenses in QuickBooks Online. This also provides details on how you can review, edit and delete the recorded expense in QBO.
However, if you're using the QuickBooks Desktop version, you can open this article to see the steps on how you can manage any vendor's transactions: Accounts Payable workflows in QuickBooks Desktop.
Then, you may click this article for QuickBooks Self-Employed version: Manually add transactions in QuickBooks Self-Employed.
Lastly, you may refer to each article below to view steps on how you can run a specific report that will reflect all payments made to suppliers in QBO. Then, to further guide you in effectively managing your business using QBDT.
Let me know if you have follow-up questions about expenses by commenting below. I'll be around whenever you need help.
