Payment date cannot be before bill date

Did you receive an error when paying bills with a message that the payment date cannot be before the bill creation date? This error occurs in the following conditions:

• The option Payment dates must be greater than their bill dates is enabled in your Accounts Payable configuration.
• The Set payment date to field in Pay bills is set to a date that occurs before the Bill date of at least one bill that you selected for payment.

To work around this issue, you can set a different payment date for the affected bills.

Set a different payment date for an individual bill while paying bills

1. Go to Accounts Payable > All > Pay bills.
2. Filter for the bills that you want to pay and select them.
3. Set payment information such as Payment method, Bank, and Set payment date to, as usual.
4. If a selected transaction has a bill date prior to the date you set for all bills, enter a later date in the Payment date column for that bill.
   Select the date in the Payment date column to make the field editable. You can now override the date for this bill.
5. When ready, select Pay now or Add to outbox.

   All bills are paid with the date that you selected in Set payment date to, except where you overrode the payment date.

   Are you paying multiple bills for a single vendor using Merge requests into one per vendor, or is this option is set as a default on the vendor record? Only payments that occur on the same date can be merged. If you override the date for a bill, it will be merged with payments made on the override date only.