Bills, expenses and paying vendors

• Bill: something you owe and will pay later. Enter it with Create › Bill; it waits under Expenses & Bills › [Bills](/expenses/bills) (Unpaid, soonest due first) until it's paid.
• Expense: something already paid, by card, cash, check or bank transfer (Create › Expense or Create › Check).
• Vendor credit: a vendor owes you; it's applied to their open bills.
• Purchase order: what you've ordered, turned into a bill when it arrives.

Each of these has Category details (an account and an amount) and, when you have products, Item details (a product with quantity and rate). Inventory items on a bill or expense come into stock: see Track inventory.

Pay a bill with Make payment on the Bills list (or Pay bill on its page), or let the bank withdrawal do it: it shows Pay bill in Bank transactions.

Paying several bills at once

Create › [Pay bills](/new/pay-bills) (also under Add bill on the Bills page, and New transaction on a vendor's page) lists every unpaid bill, soonest due first. Choose the payment account and date, tick the bills you paid (the amount fills in with the balance; change it for a part payment), and save. Each bill gets its own payment. If one can't be saved, none are, so nothing is half done.

Overview pages

Expenses & Bills › [Overview](/expenses/overview) shows unpaid and overdue bills, what's due in the next 30 days, spending by month, and your top categories and vendors this year. Sales & Get Paid › [Overview](/sales/overview) does the same for sales: unpaid and overdue invoices, what came in, how long customers take to pay, income by month and your top customers.

Everything in one list

Expenses & Bills › [Expense transactions](/expenses) lists every expense, check, bill, bill payment, vendor credit and purchase order, plus spending you categorized in Bank transactions. Filter by type and date, or search. Sales & Get Paid › [Sales transactions](/sales/all) does the same for invoices, payments, estimates, receipts and credits.