Payables/Manual Payments
Use Payables/Manual Payments to record manual checks you've written to pay vendor invoices already entered into the system in the Payables/Vendor Invoices window. When you post a Payables payment, the system reduces the vendor account and the Payables control account.

When you enter a manual check for a vendor invoice payment, you apply the payment to one or more open vendor invoices previously created with the Payables/Vendor Invoices command. You can select which vendor invoices to apply the payment to, and the amount for each vendor invoice, or you can let the system assign the payment automatically. If the manual check results in an overpayment to a vendor, the overpayment amount will be available to apply as payment the next time you pay the vendor.

To create a vendor invoice and enter the manual check payment against it at the same time, use Payables/Vendor Invoices.

A useful feature of Disbursements Checks is vendor distribution prompts. When you record checks to vendors who are set up and assigned distribution account prompts in Payables, Disbursements Checks displays the distribution prompts when you select a vendor as the payee.