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Pay Bills Automatically in QuickBooks Online
Pay Bills Automatically in QuickBooks Online

Pay bills in QuickBooks Online after creating an ACH file

Updated over a month ago

If you create an ACH file using unpaid bills from QuickBooks Online, you can automatically pay them in ACH Pro.

Prerequisites

Instructions

1. Create an ACH file from QuickBooks

ACH file source selection page

2. Search for Unpaid Bills and select the bills you want to include in the ACH file. Click Pay when you're ready to finish creating the ACH file.

QuickBooks transaction search in ACH Pro

3. Finish creating your ACH file. You will be able to pay bills in the next step.

ACH Builder prefilled with QuickBooks transaction

4. Click Pay Bills on the file success page. If you don't see the Pay Bills button, make sure you have an active Premium or Ultimate plan in ACH Pro and included unpaid bills in the ACH file.

NOTE: You can also click Pay Bills on the History page by clicking the three dots next to an existing ACH file.

ACH file create success page

5. In the pay bills window, select the QuickBooks Online bank account that you would like to pay each bill from. This account will be associated with the bill payment check in QuickBooks. If you are paying multiple bills from the same account, you can select an account at the top and click Apply To All Bills to update all bills at once.

Pay Bills window with account select displayed

6. Use the checkbox to select each bill that you would like to pay and when you're ready, click Pay Bill.

Pay Bills window with bill selected

7. Any bills that are paid will display a green checkmark and won't be selectable during future attempts to prevent duplicate payments. Hovering over the green checkmark will display the time the bill was paid in ACH Pro.

Bill paid icon and message

Success! You've successfully paid bills in QuickBooks Online

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