To display a list of open purchases with expiring discounts on your screen

If you haven't already read the Purchases Overview, see Reviewing your purchase information for more information.

These steps will also allow you to make bill payments for these transactions automatically.

Note: Setting up discounts

If you wish to establish a set of credit terms for your new suppliers, you can use the Preferences window to do so. To do this, see To change the default credit terms for new suppliers. The terms you set in these windows will be applied only to new supplier cards you create.

For supplier cards already created, credit terms can be assigned in the Buying Details of the Card Information window. See Enter selling, payroll and buying details (customers, employees and suppliers only) for more information.

The To Do List window should be displayed.

  1. Click the Expiring Discounts tab. The open purchases for which discounts still apply if you make an early payment will appear.
  2. Click the zoom arrow to view details about a specific purchase.
  3. Click the Action column if you want to pay off one or more of the outstanding balances.

Warning: Read this before you make bill payments using the To Do List

If you choose to make bill payments using the To Do List window, keep in mind that the transactions will be recorded automatically; you won't get a chance to review or change any of the payments before they're recorded. If you're not sure you want to make a bill payment, click the zoom arrow next to the transaction to open the Pay Bills window to manually enter the payment so you have better control over the payment information than you would if you used the To Do List.

The bank account that will be used for all bill payments using the To Do List window is the account listed in the Bank Account For Paying Purchases field of the Purchase Ledger Linked Accounts window.

  1. Click the Pay Suppliers button.

Note: If you want to print supplier debits and discounts on the cheque stub

If debits and discounts have been applied to a purchase, you may want to print the total amounts of debits and discounts on the bill payment cheque stub. The fields for debits and discounts appear on the bill payment cheque stub, but in order for debits and discounts to be printed on the payable cheque stub, the fields must be made active. To learn how to display supplier debits on the cheque stub, see To display applied debit memos on cheque stubs. To display discounts on the payable cheque stub, follow the same directions substituting the [YTD Discounts] field for the [YTD Debits] field in the procedure.