{"id":2163,"date":"2026-09-29T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:00:29","slug":"add-vendor-invoices-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/add-vendor-invoices-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Add a vendor; record invoices and payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"993\" src=\"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vendors.png\" alt=\"The vendor directory.\" class=\"wp-image-2110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vendors.png 1920w, https:\/\/bilterm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vendors-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/bilterm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vendors-1030x533.png 1030w, https:\/\/bilterm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vendors-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/bilterm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vendors-1536x794.png 1536w, https:\/\/bilterm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vendors-1500x776.png 1500w, https:\/\/bilterm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vendors-705x365.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plumbers, electricians, snow removal, the handyman who does everything \u2014 they all live in <strong>Fournisseurs<\/strong>, with their invoices and your payments tracked against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Go to <strong>Fournisseurs<\/strong> and click <strong>Add vendor<\/strong> (or \u201cAdd the first vendor\u201d if the list is empty).<\/li><li>Under <strong>Business<\/strong>: enter the <strong>Business name<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Under <strong>Primary Contact<\/strong>: <strong>First name<\/strong> and <strong>Last name<\/strong> (required), plus <strong>Email<\/strong> and <strong>Phone<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Under <strong>Entreprise<\/strong>: <strong>Licence\/permit number<\/strong>, <strong>Tax ID \/ business registration<\/strong>, and <strong>Internal notes<\/strong> \u2014 the stuff you\u2019d otherwise keep in your head (\u201conly available Tuesdays\u201d, \u201cbring exact change\u201d).<\/li><li>Save. The vendor gets a detail page with their contact info, categories, and history.<\/li><li>When the bill arrives, record a <strong>vendor invoice<\/strong> on the vendor record. When you pay it, record a <strong>vendor payment<\/strong>. The Vendors dashboard tracks <strong>Unpaid Invoices<\/strong>, <strong>Pending Approvals<\/strong>, and <strong>Spend YTD<\/strong> across all vendors.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fill in the licence and tax ID when you add the vendor, not at tax time. You\u2019ll need them for your accountant anyway.<\/li><li>The <strong>On-Time Completion<\/strong> metric only means something once projects have due dates \u2014 set them on the project, and the vendor scorecard builds itself.<\/li><li>Vendors get a limited portal of their own. Share project documents and photos with them through Drive rather than texting PDFs back and forth.<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plumbers, electricians, snow removal, the handyman who does everything \u2014 they all live in Vendors, with their invoices and your payments tracked against them. Tips<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilterm.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}