To display a list of open purchases with expiring discounts

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 vendors, you can use the Preferences window to do so. To do this, see To change the default credit terms for new vendors. The terms you set in these windows will be applied only to new vendor cards you create.

For vendor cards already created, credit terms can be assigned in the Buying Details of the Card Information window. See Using the Buying Details view (Vendor cards only) for more information.

The To Do List window should be displayed. (To find the To Do List window - Discounts view)

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 checking account that will be used for all bill payments using the To Do List window is the account listed in the Checking Account For Paying Bills field of the Purchases Linked Accounts window.

4. Click the Pay Bills button.

Note: If you want to print vendor debits and discounts on the check stub

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