How to reimburse expenses paid for with personal account via receipts?

Hi J!

The best solution would be to create a reimbursement expense to yourself through the owners equity account and then create a journal entry crediting the equity account and debiting the respective expense accounts. For example,

You buy 10.00$ in postage with your own money. 
An expense is created, as a owner's draw, for the total of 10.00$

Then create a journal entry, debiting postage for the 10.00$ and crediting owner's draw for 10.00$.

This will capture the expense as well as the repayment to you. Hope this helps! If not let me know and we'll find an alternate solution. 

I open up the receipt in quickbooks and select "Reimbursable Expenses" as the "Bank/Credit Account" and "Owner's Investment" as the "Account/Category" but when I click save I get the "Somethin's not quite right, You need to select a different type of account for this transaction" error message.

Hi Easton,  thanks for your reply.

I think my hangup is I don't know what to put for the "Bank / Credit account" and "Account/Category" fields to make quickbooks accept the receipt and create an expense.  All I get is that error message like in the picture.  I was able to make the journal entry but I can't match anything up without the expense creation via receipt.

This is bugging me because I would think it would be as simple as "make an expense that is in the category for repayment to owner" which would have a running total, then I could just write one check to reimburse myself for the total.

I'm having the same problem. Quite frustrating.

Thanks for joining the thread, @Austin23.

I'll make sure you're able to get past the "Something's not quite right, You need to select a different type of account for this transaction" error. Let's open your QBO account using incognito mode or a private browser. This browsing doesn’t store data and will help the page load without issues from temporary data.

Here's how:

• Press Ctrl + Shift + N (Google Chrome).
• Press Ctrl + Shift + P (Mozilla Firefox).
• Press Command + Shift + N (Safari).

After that, go back and create the transaction again. If it's working fine, you'll want to clear the cache to start on a clean slate. This process helps the browser to fetch the latest version of the webpage and a faster browsing experience.

However, if you're getting the same message, please contact our Customer Care Support. This way, we can create a case for you and investigate further.

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2. Go to Help at the top.
3. Select Contact Us.
4. Enter a brief description of the issue, then tap Continue.
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Keep me posted if you still have questions about your expense transactions. I’m more than happy to assist further. Have a wonderful weekend.