What are my options for paying bills to vendors in Canada? Direct deposit, e-transfer, credit card? I have been trying to set things up...without success.

Hello and welcome to the QuickBooks Community!

Getting to know the program and the options it has to make your bookkeeping easier is the best way to get the most out of QuickBooks Online. It looks like you've been doing some research into the options, and I'd be happy to clarify them for you.

QuickBooks Online has a variety of options for recording transactions with your vendors, such as expenses, bills, and cheques. The key takeaway here is that these transactions are used to record the vendor entries, but these aren't designed to handle the actual money movement between you and your vendor. While you can use the number, memo, or even payment method fields on transactions to indicate how you paid the vendor, all actual payments to the vendor take place outside of the software.

There may be apps you can consider that connect with QuickBooks Online and facilitate actually paying your vendor using one of the options you've mentioned. Check out the Apps tab to see what options are available to you, and browse through to learn more about them, their related fees, and how they work with the program.

Otherwise, I encourage you to submit feedback about what you'd like to see as a feature in the program. When you leave your comments using the steps in our article How do I submit feedback?, the product development team receives them and considers them for future updates. To stay on top of updates to the program, you can check out the QuickBooks Online Feature and Product Updates page.

I hope this has helped clear things up! I'll be here if you have further questions.