I view an expense and select 'add bill' for an existing related bill. I type the amt, save and close. Why does the expense's attachment disappear when I re-open it?

Hi @CMcK1,

You're right when you said that the attachment remains when you convert an expense to bill payment. 

I replicated this process in my test account and found that what you said is true. To resolve this issue, I suggest you open your browser's private browser. It isolates cache, which is the usual cause of a browser's unusual behavior. 

• Google Chrome: Ctrl + Shift + N
• Microsoft Edge: Ctrl + Shift + P
• Firefox: Ctrl + Shift + P
• Safari: Command + Shift + N

If that works, go back to your original browser and clear its cache. Otherwise, open an alternative browser that's available for you. 

Check out this article: Attachments in QuickBooks Online. It has a complete list of transactions that can retain attachments, along with acceptable file types.

I'll be around in case you have other questions for me about attachments in your QBO company. I'll be sure to get back to you. 

@Ryan_Mthanks for the prompt reply.

I normally use Chrome and tried your suggestion of opening an icognito/private window to view the 'Bill Payment (Check)' to see if I could view the attachment within the window. I wasn't able to see it still.

I then decided to try a different browser and manually re-create the entire process. I tried your suggestion of a private window in Microsoft Edge. Didn't have any luck.

Also, every time I re-do this process, the Bill Payment (Check) is able to be deleted, but the attachment that was associated with it gets stranded in this system and is unable to be deleted. The Bill and attachment to the Bill are able to get deleted, but this isn't the case with the Bill Payment (Check) attachment.

What are next steps? Does this get submitted to QBO backlog for addressing by devs? I want to know whether I should relate all these attachments to these Bill Payments because I don't want to have to re-do all of this work later. Would be nice if I could go ahead and associate the Bills and Bill Payment (Check), have the attachments in there, trusting that one day the link to attachment will show up in the Bill Payment (Check) window when QBO dev team has a chance to address.

I appreciate you for following the steps shared by my colleague, @CMcK1.

I understand that you want to delete the attachment with your Bill Payment (check). We can re-create the process again by using other file formats like jpeg, jpg, gif, or png. 

Also, please be sure that the total size of your attachments doesn't exceed 20 MB.

However, if you still receiving the same behavior after using the other file formats, I'd suggest contacting our Customer Support Team. They can investigate this further and provide other troubleshooting steps to resolve this.

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