vendor discounts being put in STT in General Journal

Welcome to the Community, JanDriggs. 

Allow me to share insights in entering vendor credits when paying bills in QuickBooks Desktop.

You must choose whether to apply a credit or a discount against a bill. If your vendor gave you a discount for this transaction, the discount is applied to the bill. If, on the other hand, you received a credit from your vendor and used it to reduce your total bill amount, you must select credit.

Once you're ready to pay your bill, you can follow these steps to apply a credit or a discount.

Here's how:

1. Go to the Vendors menu, then Pay Bills.
2. Choose the correct accounts payable account from the dropdown.
3. Tap the checkboxes of the bills you want to pay from the table.
4. Set the credit or the discount you want to apply to the bills.
5. Put the date you paid the bill.
6. Select the payment method.
7. Hit Pay Selected Bills.
8. Click on Done, or select Pay More Bills if you have other bills you need to pay.

Here's an article for more information: Pay bills in QuickBooks Desktop.

To learn more about the full list of workflows and other vendor-related transactions, check out this link: Accounts Payable workflows in QuickBooks Desktop.

Be sure to let me know if you have any further questions about paying your bills. I've got you covered. Enjoy your week!

Thank you for the breakdown.  This is the process I have / do use.  Every once in a while it puts the discount in the General Journal as a State Transit Tax. 

I enter my bills.  When I pay them I click on the invoice, if I have a discount to take, I set it.  If I am using the credit as well on that same invoice, I set it.  This is what I did.  When I “created a check” but not to mail, because the credit paid it in full, it puts the discount in general Ledger.  I have told my CPA about this, and she is baffled.  I don’t know how to correct it so she can do so when she gets an accountants copy.  I am just wondering why this keeps happening, but not on all invoices I take discs and credits on.

Again, thank you for your help and time.

gosh I hit reply on my own question, so Im not sure if it went through.  Sorry if this doubles up.  I am not techy savvy. so sorry

Thank you for the breakdown.  This is the process I have / do use.  Every once in a while it puts the discount in the General Journal as a State Tax. 

I enter my bills.  When I pay them I click on the invoice, if I have a discount to take, I set it.  If I am using the credit as well on that same invoice, I set it.  This is what I did.  When I “created a check” but not to mail because the credit paid it in full, it puts the discount in general Ledger.  I have told my CPA about this, and she is baffled.  I don’t know how to correct it so she can do so when she gets an accountants copy.  I am just wondering why this keeps happening, but not on all invoices I take discs and credits.

Again, thank you for your help and time.