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Bill Statuses & Filters

How to manage bill statuses, filter and configure bills, and perform bulk actions on the Bills page.

Updated over a week ago

The Bills page allows you to manage incoming bills, track their status through approval and payment, configure the bill table, and take bulk actions such as downloading, editing, and categorizing bills.

1. Accessing the Bills Page

The Bills page includes multiple tabs used to manage bills throughout their lifecycle.
All newly received bills appear in the Inbox whether they are:

  • Uploaded manually

  • Emailed in

  • Added through email integration

  • Imported

  • Created as new bills

2. Bill Statuses

Bills move through several statuses:

Tab

What It Shows

Draft

All newly created bill drafts and bills forwarded from email

Bills that have not been submitted for approval

For Approval

Bills awaiting bill approval

Payment Approval

Bills awaiting payment approval (when enabled)

For Payment

Approved bills ready for payment

All

All bills across all statuses

Please note: Bills will sync to QuickBooks once they've been approved.

Payment Handling

In Ready to pay, you can:

  • Mark as paid

  • Send ACH payment

  • Allow QuickBooks to sync payment status if the payment is completed in QuickBooks

3. Configuring the Bills Table

Use Configure table to customize what columns appear.
You can reset the configuration at any time to return to the full view.

4. Filtering Bills

Apply filters to narrow bill results. Available filters include:

Filter

Description

Account

Filter by accounts applied to line items on the bills.

ACH Status

Filter by ACH payment status

Approval Required From

Filter by who needs to approve

Billable Status

Filter by billable classification

Class

Filter by class associated with certain lines on the bills, if applied.

Cost Codes

Filter by cost codes assigned to line items within the bills.

Draw Status

Filter by draw/invoice status

Duplicates

Has duplicates (shows only bills flagged as potential duplicates)

Job

Filter by the jobs associated with the selected bills.

Lien Waiver Status

Request not sent, Request sent, Signed, Not required

Lien Waiver Type

Conditional Progress, Unconditional Progress, Conditional Final, Unconditional Final

Purchase Order

Filter by linked PO

Status

Draft, For Approval, For Payment, Rejected, Archived, Sync Errors, Ignored Sync Errors

Transaction Type

Bill or Vendor Credit

5. Downloading Bills

Use the download options to:

  • Download all bills

  • Download a selection

You can choose:

  • File format:

    • Transactions (XLSX): An Excel spreadsheet listing your transactions.
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    • Backup (PDF): A combined PDF with images of all bills.
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    • Backup (ZIP): Individual PDFs for each bill image.

  • Which columns to include or exclude

These download settings are saved until reset.

6. Bulk Actions

Bulk actions allow you to update multiple bills at once. Available actions include:

  • Send for approval

  • Send for approval and approve

  • Archive

  • Ignore sync errors

  • Resync to QuickBooks

  • Delete

  • Recategorize as a receipt

  • Auto-split Document

  • Categorize as a purchase order

  • Bulk edit properties, including:

    • Cost code

    • Vendor

    • Job

    • Billable status

    • Class
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