• From: Canada, Yukon
  • Registered: 09/27/2014
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Topic: quick entries question.

Hi,

Relating to quick entries:

if I pay a phone bill the long way, as I understand it I would go under purchases=>supplier invoices to do so.

If I want to setup a quick entry for this; according to the wiki page, I would create a bank payment instead of a supplier invoice.  However, at the bottom of the wiki page is a link to a screen shot where the quick entry for a phone payment shows the entry type as supplier invoice, not bank payment. 

It seems to me that the quick entry should be a supplier invoice and not a bank payment, since that is how I would enter it the long way, but when I set it so, then go under "banking and general ledger=>payments=>pay to quick entry" I cannot select a supplier invoice type.

On the wiki, which is the correct information; the image or the text?  And is there a reason why I shouldn't set a quick entry for a phone bill as a supplier invoice?

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  • From: Canada, Yukon
  • Registered: 09/27/2014
  • Posts: 121

Re: quick entries question.

I found the quick entries for supplier invoices, they are, of all places, under supplier invoices.

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Re: quick entries question.

Thanks @bobloblian. The wiki has now been updated with your valuable in context suggestion.

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  • From: Canada, Yukon
  • Registered: 09/27/2014
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Re: quick entries question.

hi @apmuthu,

just to be clear on this;

The quick entries for supplier invoices are still created under Banking and General Ledger tab => Maintenance Menu => Quick Entries.  But if you want to make a payment with them you go to Purchases => Supplier Invoices => Quick Entry, as opposed to with a bank payment where you go to Banking and General Ledger => payments.  that was the distinction I didn't find in the wiki before. 

Also, under the tips and tricks is the following:

First go into Quick Entries and create a new Quick Entry. Select Bank Payment and call it f.i. Phone. Don't set a fixed amount. Save it and select it again. Create 2 Quick Entry Lines.

Which conflicts with the image linked at the bottom of the page.  And given that I found other instructions that indicate a phone bill should be payed under purchases=>supplier invoices, I believe that to be in error.

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