I have an aged payable which I know has been paid, what is the best way to get this out of the system?

Hi wthomas1949, 

There are options available. Firstly, you can delete the bill off the system entirely, if the payment is in the system in the form of a bank transaction or if you have created the expense manually that you are happy with without the Bill. It can be done with the below steps:

1. Select the Expenses tab
2. Select and open the Bill 
3. Down the bottom select More 
4. Then select Delete.

Secondly, if the Bill remains open, it means that a Bill Payment has not been created to close the payable and remove it from your aged reporting. Now, assuming that you know it has been paid because of bank transaction appearing in QuickBooks, you will want to create a Bill Payment and Match it to the bank transaction. 

If the Bank Transaction is currently in QuickBooks you can undo it, back to your For Review tab with the below steps:

1. Select the Banking tab
2. Select the Categorised tab 
3. Find the transaction of the paid bill, and then select Undo
4. This will allow you to then have it available to match to the Bill Payment. 

Next to create the Bill Payment you do the following steps:

1. Select the Expenses tab
2. Select and open the Bill 
3. In the top right select Make Payment.
4. Make sure you assign the bank account as the account paid from, and the date matches the bank transaction. Then do Save and close. 

Last step is to return to the Banking tab and select the For Review tab, where you see the bill payment/bank transaction sitting there flagging a Match.

This second option is a much more thorough and concise way of making sure you don't delete anything, and your bank transaction is validated by the Match. 

Hope this helps, 

-Steven