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Payables

The Payables section contains a list of reports that show all the money you owe to your vendors or suppliers from various sources.

Vendor Balance Summary

A Vendor Balance Summary is a financial report that provides an overview of the amounts you owe to your vendors or suppliers.

To generate this report:

  • Go to Reports on the left sidebar.
  • Select Payables on the REPORT CATEGORY pane.
  • Select Vendor Balance Summary.
  • Set the Date Range for which you want to generate the report and any additional filters.
  • Click Run Report.

Let us take a look at the different sections that this report contains:

ColumnDescription
Vendor NameThe vendor to whom you owe money.
Billed AmountThe total amount that a vendor has invoiced you for goods or services provided.
Amount PaidThe total amount paid to a vendor for the selected date range.
Closing BalanceThe total amount you need to pay to a vendor at the end of a specified period.

Purchase Order By Item

The Purchase Order By Item report shows the quantity ordered and total cost for each item across all purchase orders in a selected period. You can use it to understand which items you purchase most frequently and at what cost.

To generate this report:

  • Go to Reports on the left sidebar.
  • Select Payables on the REPORT CATEGORY pane.
  • Select Purchase Order By Item.
  • Set the Date Range for which you want to generate the report and any additional filters.
  • Click Run Report.

This report includes the following columns:

ColumnDescription
P.O#Reference number of the purchase order.
VENDOR NAMEName of the vendor to whom the purchase order is issued.
ITEM NAMEName of the item ordered.
QUANTITY ORDEREDTotal quantity of the item ordered.
QUANTITY CANCELLEDQuantity of the item cancelled in the order.
QUANTITY BILLEDQuantity for which a vendor bill has been recorded.
AMOUNTTotal value of this item line in the purchase order.
LOCATIONLocation associated with the purchase order, if applicable.
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