Paying a bill and recording the payment

Once you have paid a supplier via BACS, Faster Payments, card, or any other method, record the payment in Blankitt so the bill clears your Accounts Payable ledger and the cash leaves your books.

Step-by-step

1. Go to Spending → Bills, find the bill (filter by Received or Overdue).
2. Open the bill, click Record Payment.
3. Payment date — when the payment cleared your bank.
4. Paid from — which bank account the payment came out of (1000 Current / 1010 Savings / 1020 Petty Cash).
5. Reference (optional) — useful for cross-referencing your bank statement.
6. Record Payment — the bill moves to Paid and the journal posts.

What posts to the books

Account	Debit	Credit
Accounts Payable (acc-2000)	Total	—
Bank Account (per selection)	—	Total

The bill's contribution to Accounts Payable is cleared and Cash at Bank decreases by the same amount.

Bank-feed matching

If you have a bank feed connected (Bank Feeds → connect via Yapily / TrueLayer), the outbound payment will show up on Transactions when your bank settles it. Match it to the bill payment to avoid double-counting:

1. Open the bank transaction.
2. Match to existing bill payment — pick the bill from the list.
3. The transaction links to the existing AP-clear journal (no new entries posted).

If you record the payment manually first AND the bank feed later picks it up, the matching step prevents duplicate cash entries.

Partial payments and credit notes

The current bills surface posts the full bill total when you click Record Payment. Partial-payment workflows ship in Phase 6:

• Pay 50% now, 50% next month — partial payment splitting.
• Supplier credit note — receive a credit to offset against an open bill.
• Batch payment run — pay multiple bills with one BACS file.

For now, to handle a partial payment, void the bill and re-enter with the adjusted total.

See also: Bills overview · Recording a bill · Bank reconciliation.