Using Future Dated Payments
Payment Batch or Quick Payments
Prerequisites
Your supplier sends you an invoice.
Enter the invoice in the Invoices window, and enter either Future Dated or Check in the Payment Method field. See: Entering Invoices.
Submit Approval for the invoice. See: Approval.
To create a future dated payment using a payment batch or a quick payment:
1. To pay the invoice in a payment batch or as a Quick payment in the Payment Batches window or the Payments window, choose a future dated payment document, and enter a Maturity Date. Payables will then automatically create the future dated payment.
2. You send the payment to the supplier.
3. The supplier submits the payment document to the bank.
4. The bank disburses funds on the maturity date you specified.
5. Your bank sends you payment reconciliation information.
Manual Payments
Prerequisites
Your supplier sends you an invoice with a future dated payment request.
Enter the invoice in the Invoices window, and enter either Manual Future Dated or Future Dated in the Payment Method field. See: Entering Invoices.
Submit Approval for the invoice. See: Approval.
To record a future dated payment using a manual payment:
1. In the Payments window, record the invoice payment as a Manual Payment.
- If you use the payment document your supplier sent you and do not create a payment document, enter Manual Future Dated in the Payment Method field.
- If you manually created a future dated payment that you want to record, enter Future Dated in the Payment Method field.
2. Enter a Maturity Date.
3. Return the payment notice to the supplier.
4. The supplier submits the payment request to the bank.
5. The bank disburses funds on the maturity date the supplier specified on the payment notice.
6. Your bank sends you payment reconciliation information.
See Also
Paying Invoices with Quick Payments
Paying Invoices in Payment Batches
Recording Manual Payments and Wire Transfers
Voiding or Stopping Future Dated Payments
To void or stop a future dated payment:
- You can record a stop payment on a future dated payment document or void a future dated payment document as you would any payment document. See: Stopping Payments, or Voiding Payments.
Defining Recurring Invoice Templates for Future Dated Payments
To define a recurring invoice template with a future dated payment method: