How To Enter Credit Card Transactions in QuickBooks Online
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This tutorial will guide you through how to enter credit card transactions in QuickBooks Online, something you have to do if you can’t connect your credit card account to your QuickBooks Online account or need up-to-date financial information. We’ll also cover how to review your credit card transactions in the credit card register and how to modify transactions if needed.
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Create a new expense transaction by clicking on+ Newat the top of the left menu bar and selectingExpenseunder the Vendors column, as shown below.
QuickBooks will bring up the expense input screen, asking you to change the payment account to your credit card and the payment method to your type of credit card. If you need to set up an account for a new credit card, see our tutorial onhow to set up the chart of accounts.
Enter the remaining transaction details on the expense input screen. Depending on the settings you selected inhow to set up advanced settings, you may not have all the fields displayed.
If you’ve been completing our tutorials in order, the information required to create an expense transaction should be familiar as it’s the same ascreating a billorwriting and printing a check.
A. Payee:Choose the vendor you’re paying or selectAdd newfrom the drop-down menu toset up a new vendor.
B. Payment date:Enter the date you’re making the credit card charge.
C. Category:Assign a category that describes your expense transaction, such as office supplies. Choose from the drop-down list or clickAdd newtoset up a new account.
D. Description:Provide a description of the credit card charge.
E. Amount:Enter the amount of the expense.
F. Billable:You can make a credit card expense billable to a customer by placing a checkmark here. However, it’s better to create product or service items that can be used to assign billable expenses to customers more easily.
G. Tax:Place a checkmark here if you’re required to collect sales tax from your customer when billing them for this expense.
H. Customer/Project:Select the customer or project you wish to bill for this expense, if any. If you wish to bill a new customer or project, selectAdd newtoset up a customer or project.
- If, for example, you need to itemize expenses under your “Utility Expenses” category, such as create two items: “telephone” and “electric bills,”, then you need to complete the Item field, discussed below.
I. Product/Service Item:If you haven’t already created the necessary inventory or service items, clickAdd newtoset up a new product/service item. Once you select a product/service item, the fields for Description, Rate, Billable, Tax, and Class will populate automatically. Note that:
- Goods that are purchased for sale to customers should be assigned an inventory item
- Services and other expenses purchased that will be billed to customers should be assigned a service item
J. Qty:Enter the quantity of goods or hours of services purchased. After you add it, the amount and sales amount will be calculated.
K. Customer/Project:Add the customer or project you want to bill for the specific item or service you’ve entered. It should be the same customer you entered in the Category field.
When you’re finished entering the transaction details, click on the greenSave and closebutton in the bottom right corner of the screen.
How To Review & Modify Credit Card Transactions
You can review all of your credit card transactions by viewing your account register. You can then select transactions from the register to modify.
The credit card register will provide a list of all transactions in your credit card account. You can modify the fields that appear in your register by clicking on the gear icon immediately above the far right column.
To modify a credit card transaction that appears in the register, click anywhere on the transaction. This will open to allow you to edit any fields in the register. However, not all fields that are available when inputting transactions appear in the register. To edit fields that aren’t shown, click theEditbutton immediately below the transaction to get to the original expense input screen.
Be sure to save your changes when you’re finished making changes directly in the register or editing the original input screen.
When To Enter Credit Card Transactions in QuickBooks Online
Enter credit card charges in QuickBooks Online if you’re unable toimport your credit card transactionsand want to have the most up-to-date financial information. Credit card transactions won’t transfer to QuickBooks from your account until the charges are final, which could take several days. It’s important to have up-to-date financial information prior to printing financial statements at the end of the month, quarter, or year.
Wrap Up
You have just learned how to enter credit card transactions inQuickBooks Online. Our QuickBooks Online Training Course’s next guide ishow to manage downloaded credit card transactions. There, you’ll learn how to match imported credit card charges to existing QuickBooks transactions or to create a new transaction when there are none.