Accts. payable transaction split lines- vendor?

thanks for your help.

I am doing general journal entries for an accounts payable account. I enter accounts payable at the end of the month by journal entry. I would like to enter each bill amount separately under the Accounts Payable account but it will only let me do one lump sum under that account for the total accounts payable to be Debited. Bad because each amount is from a different Vendor. so I can only put in one Vendor name for the lump sum debited to accounts payable. I can separate each bill when I Credit the expense account in the entry. So I Debit accounts payable and Credit different expense accounts. Anyhow, when I make the entry, it won't save or print because of the Transaction Split Lines message.

The solution

This is what the Enter Bills screen is for, here you can enter each bill one at a time. This will automatically update your Acoounts Payable Account and you have the opportunity to assign expense account(s). BTW, Entering a bill invoves crediting accounts payable and debiting an expense.

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Accts. payable transaction split lines- vendor?

Doing an accts. payable entry I get "transaction split lines to Accts. Payable must include a vendor on that split line" can't save or print the entry. What do I do?