Entering and paying bills

Entering bills into QuickBooks and paying them a few days before they become due is the best way to manage your cash flow. If you enter bills into QuickBooks as you receive them, you can run reports that will show you which bills are due or are nearly due so that you can plan ahead, so as to ensure you have sufficient cash on hand to pay them. Unpaid bills are also referred to as accounts payable, or A/P for short. In the following sections, we will first cover how to enter bills, and then we will discuss how to pay a bill in QuickBooks Online (QBO).