About paying bills

Use the Pay bills page to create payment requests that can then be approved or processed for payment. The Pay bills page provides two options for generating payment requests based on your needs: Pay now and create a payment request immediately, or send bills to the outbox as draft payment requests.

Knowing how to filter, and how to create effective filter sets which you can reuse to save time, is an important part of the Pay bills process. Check out our topics on Filters to get more details, or get started by reading the brief overview below.

On the Pay bills page, you can:

1. Create and save an advanced filter set: From the Filter by dropdown, select Add a filter set.

   The Advanced filters page appears, where you can create a filter set and save it for reuse.

2. Filter on-the-fly: Instead of applying a filter set, you can quickly filter on-the-fly for payments within a Due date range or Vendor range.
3. Apply a filter: After you select a filter set or filter by Due date range or Vendor range, select Apply filter to load bills.
4. Clear a filter: Select to clear any applied filters.
5. Set payment information: The fields in the gray area are not filters.

   Instead, this area is where you set payment information for your selected payments.

Workflow

The general workflow for paying bills is as follows:

Filter to load bills to pay

Unless you configured Accounts Payable to display all ready-to-pay bills, bills will not load until you apply a filter. Make sure your filter results in less than 1000 bills.

To load bills, you can either:

• filter-on-the fly by vendor due date or the bill due date range.
• create and apply an advanced filter set. You can also save a filter set for reuse.

In other words, to load bills, make sure you select Apply filters first, whether you are using an on-the-fly filter or a filter set from the Filter by dropdown.

After you learn the basics about how to use filters to load bills to pay, check out these tips and tricks for creating advanced filters.