Approve and pay bills and statements

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Overview

After you create a payment for a bill or statement, a payment record is created with the status Ready for Approval. To ensure the payment is delivered to your payee, review and approve the payment so your remittance vendor can process it.


Who uses this feature

  • Administrators, managers, and accountants

  • Account configuration is required to use this feature. Please contact Technical Support for details.

  • The Purchasing Module is required to use this feature.

  • Permission is required to use this feature. Please contact the account administrator on your team.

Things to know

If you haven't already enabled Payables, see Set up Accounts Payable.

Approve and pay a bill or statement

  1. Go to the navigation bar and click Accounting.

  2. In the side panel, click Payments.

  3. Click the Ready for Approval tab.

  4. Click a bill or statement you want to approve and pay.        

    Tip: Use the filters to quickly find a bill or statement.

            The payment record opens.    

  5. Click Approve and Pay        

    Note: If this is your first time making a payment to the specified remittance vendor, the First-time Transaction Verification pop-up opens. Review the vendor details, then click Approve and Pay.

            The payment record status updates to Initiated.    

Note: When you complete a payment and add the payment to a batch, a link to the batch number appears in the payment details so you can review the payment.

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