Planning for and using Vendor Bills
Vendor bills in NetSuite record the amounts a business owes them for purchases. Since vendor bills are part of A/P, that team usually has a lot to say about how they're set up and used. We bring vendor bills into an account via CSV imports and integrations with EDI partners, and can create them manually, as needed. When created directly in the system, we can do this one at a time, or use the Bill Purchase Orders screen to create them in bulk. Once they're in the account, the A/P team determines when they need to be paid (some come with terms, some are due on receipt) and batch processes them via the Payments interface (as described in the next section).
Some clients don't always need to enter Bills for every payable, though. NetSuite allows us to simply print a check for cases where the payment was made in exchange for the goods at the time they were received. If a bakery's employee had to go buy 10 bags of flour from a grocery...