Accounts payable home page
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Important
Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations has evolved into purpose-built applications to help you manage specific business functions. For more information about these changes, see Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.
This topic provides an overview of Accounts payable.
You can enter vendor invoices manually or receive them electronically through a data entity. After the invoices are entered or received, you can review and approve the invoices by using an invoice approval journal or the Vendor invoice page. You can use invoice matching, vendor invoice policies, and workflow to automate the review process so that invoices that meet certain criteria are automatically approved, and the remaining invoices are flagged for review by an authorized user.
Business processes
Set up Accounts payable
Set up vendor groups, vendors, posting profiles, various payment options, and parameters regarding vendors, charges, deliveries and destinations, promissory notes, and other types of Accounts payable information.
Configure Accounts payable overview
Accounting distributions and subledger journal entries for vendor invoices
Foreign currency revaluation for Accounts payable and Accounts receivable
Configure vendor invoices
Use Accounts payable to track invoices and outgoing expenditures to vendors.
Accounts payable invoice matching overview
Set up Accounts payable invoice matching validation
Invoice matching and intercompany purchase orders
Resolve discrepancies during invoice totals matching overview
Default offset accounts for vendor invoice journals and invoice approval journals
Vendor collaboration invoicing workspace
Configure vendor payments
Assign a system-defined payment type, such as check, electronic payment, or promissory note, to any user-defined method of payment. Payment types are optional, but they are useful when you validate electronic payments and want to be able to quickly determine which payment type a payment uses.
Set up and generate positive pay files
Create vendor payments by using a payment proposal
Vendor payments for a partial amount
Take a discount that is more than the calculated discount for a vendor payment
Take a cash discount outside the cash discount period
Electronic reporting sample vendor checks
Prepayment invoices vs. prepayments
Centralized payments for Accounts payable
Settlements
The following topics provide information about settlements. Settlement is the process of settling payments with invoices.
Settle a partial vendor payment that has discounts on vendor credit notes
Settle a partial vendor payment that has multiple discount periods
Settle a partial vendor payment and the final payment in full before the discount date
Single voucher with multiple customer or vendor records
Additional resources
What's new and in development
Go to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 release plans to see what new features are planned.
Blogs
You can find opinions, news, and other information about Accounts payable and other solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 blogand the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance - Financials blog.
The Microsoft Dynamics Operations Partner Community Blog gives Microsoft Dynamics Partners a single resource where they can learn what is new and trending in MBS Operations.
Community blogs
How to manage payables in Dynamics 365 Finance
Task guides
Additional help is available as task guides inside the application. To access task guides, click the Help button on any page.
Videos
Check out the how-to videos that are now available on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 YouTube Channel.