Pay your suppliers with Salary and Supplier Payments

To pay your suppliers using Salary and Supplier Payments, you can post the purchase payment or payment on account as usual in Sage 50 Accounts. You just need to ensure you use the Supplier Payments bank account.

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Pay the supplier

The steps you need to follow depend on whether you are paying a single supplier or a batch of suppliers. Select the relevant option to find out more. 

• Pay a single supplier
  1. Click Bank accounts then click Supplier payment.
  2. Click the Bank A/C Ref drop-down and click your Supplier Payments bank then click OK.
  3. Click the Payee drop-down and click the relevant supplier then click OK.
  4. Enter the Date and Reference.
      NOTE: The beneficiary’s bank statement and the Salary and Supplier Payments portal display anything you enter into the Reference field.
  5. Enter the required payment amount against each invoice, click Save then click OK.
      NOTE: Payments over £250,000 fail, for larger amounts, post multiple transactions. 
  6. If prompted, enter your Salary and Supplier Payments login details.
     

     
     

      Salary and Supplier Payments receives the payment details for authorisation.
  7. Your Salary and Supplier Payments account approver must now authorise the payment within the account. 
  8. Check the authorisation status of a payment anytime in Sage Accounts in Transactions, under the Status column.

• Pay a batch of suppliers
  1. Click Bank accounts then click Batch supplier payment.
  2. Click the Bank A/C Ref drop-down and click your Supplier Payments bank then click OK.
  3. Enter your payment Date and Reference.
      NOTE: The beneficiary’s bank statement and the Salary and Supplier Payments portal display anything you enter into the Reference field.
  4. Enter the required payment amount against each invoice, click Save then click OK.
      NOTE: Payments over £250,000 fail, for larger amounts, post multiple transactions. 
  5. If prompted, enter your Salary and Supplier Payments login details, then click OK.
      Salary and Supplier Payments receives the payment details for authorisation.
  6. Your Salary and Supplier Payments account approver must now authorise the payment within the account.