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Other Actions in Bills

Voiding, cloning, crediting a disputed bill, and the two lists worth running every month: bills still in draft, and open bills nobody has paid.

The overflow menu on an open bill, reached from the three-dot button in the record's toolbar. It offers Create Vendor Credit, View Journal, Clone, Make Recurring, and in red at the foot Void and Delete.
The destructive pair sits apart, in red, at the bottom of the menu.

Void, delete, credit

ActionWhenEffect
DeleteDraft onlyRemoves it entirely. Nothing posted, nothing to reverse.
VoidOpen, nothing paidReverses the payable, keeps the record and the number.
Create Vendor CreditOpen, in dispute or partly paidA vendor credit for the disputed part, set against what you owe.

Clone

Cloning copies the vendor, lines, accounts and tax into a new draft. Useful for a repeat cost that is not regular enough for a recurring bill, such as a quarterly professional fee. Make Recurring, one item above it in the menu, is the other half of that choice: it turns this bill into a profile that raises itself.

  • Clear the vendor invoice number. A bill number must be unique per vendor, so reusing it is refused outright rather than warned about.
  • Check the amount. Prices copy from the original, not from anywhere current.
  • Payments and attachments are not copied, only the billing content.

The two lists worth running

Draft billscosts you have not recorded
Every one is a cost missing from your profit and loss and a liability missing from your balance sheet. Clear this list before every close.
Open and unpaid, past duesuppliers you are annoying
Sorted by due date, this is your payment run. A long tail here is usually bills nobody assigned to a run.

Bulk actions cover the tedious part. Select rows on the list and you are offered Convert to Open for a batch of drafts you have already checked, Record Payment, Export as PDF, Print and Delete.

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