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nwatherapy
April 21, 2019
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Printing a bill from Quickbooks desktop

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I have a 1099 employee that I track payments to by creating a bill in Quickbooks.  I need to be able to print the bill as a check stub but do not see any method available to print.  Even Command + P is not working.  Please advise.  Thanks!

Best answer by Kristine Mae

Hello there, Nwatherapy.

 

At the moment, you can only print the bill stubs in QuickBooks Desktop for Mac. For now, you can continue taking screenshots of the bill.

 

I will surely submit your concern to our management team. They will pass it along to our software engineers. They will review this and might include it on the future updates. 

 

We're just right here if you need our help. Visit us anytime. 

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john-pero
john-pero
April 21, 2019

A Bill is not paid until you pay it with a Bill Pay Check. I have to admit I have no visual of what the mac home page looks like or how different your options are than mine in regular desktop for PC but My options are File>Print Forms>Bill Payment Stubs which will allow me to print just the stub of bills paid by check.  I also have a big yellow Print icon smack dab in the middle of the menu bar in each Bill, no clue why DT for mac lacks this simplest of procedures.

 

but here is a trick you can try as a last resort. Capture a screenshot 

Capture a selected portion of the screen
  1. Press Shift-Command-4.
  2. Drag to select the area of the screen to capture. To move the entire selection, press and hold Space bar while dragging.
  3. After you release your mouse or trackpad button, find the screenshot as a .png file on your desktop.

then open the file and print.

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nwatherapyAuthor
April 21, 2019

I understand a bill is not paid until I've paid it in Quickbooks with a check.  I understand that I can print a Bill Payment Stub, but the only information that provides is the date, the amount, the check, and the contractor without any of the detail of how much they're being paid and for what work.  That detail is in the bill itself.  I have just been taking screen shots but am having to take multiple screen shots and it's just a hassle.  One would think that Quickbooks would offer some easy way to print the Bill itself as it has a lot of detail potentially.  Hopefully there's something easy I'm missing and a member of the Quickbooks team can advise.  Thank you for your feedback.

Kristine Mae
Kristine MaeAnswer
April 22, 2019

Hello there, Nwatherapy.

 

At the moment, you can only print the bill stubs in QuickBooks Desktop for Mac. For now, you can continue taking screenshots of the bill.

 

I will surely submit your concern to our management team. They will pass it along to our software engineers. They will review this and might include it on the future updates. 

 

We're just right here if you need our help. Visit us anytime. 

Rustler
Rustler
April 22, 2019
@nwatherapy wrote:

I have a 1099 employee that I track payments to by creating a bill in Quickbooks.  I need to be able to print the bill as a check stub but do not see any method available to print.  Even Command + P is not working.  Please advise.  Thanks!

print the bill and attach to the check is the only way to get the bill detail.  With the bill on screen click print.  Our print bill is on the header line of the bill itself, see pic

 

Like John I do not know what features Mac does not have, other than assembly items being missing from Mac so you may have to search to find it, if it is there

 

On another note there is no such thing as a 1099 employee, you might have an employee that has his own business you use, but an employee is on payroll first and foremost

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    nwatherapyAuthor
    April 22, 2019

    Quickbooks rep just verified that my desktop version does not have an option to print a bill at all.  Super disappointing.  Also I know a 1099 is an independent contractor, not an employee.  I was just trying to get a question answered quickly to save myself some type and used the incorrect lingo.  Thank you and have a nice day!  :)

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    DealyBob
    October 25, 2019

    I COMPLETELY agree that Intuit is not very customer friendly--- merely profit driven.  Quickbooks for Mac is a very crippled version and Quickbooks Online even MORE so lacks important functionality.

     

    I've overcome this issue by using "Custom Transaction Detail Report" under reports menu.  Then change date in BOTH date range fields to reflect the date of the bill for which you want the detail.  Then use the Filter (funnel icon) to select "Number" from list.  Enter the bill # you want.  You can use the Selection (hammer/wrench icon) to select the columns you want to show on your report.  You can also export to Excel and manually format the bill data as needed.

     

    I hope this helps someone--->we USERS have to help each other b/c Intuit ISN'T going to!!!

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    Desktop Mac Connie
    July 25, 2021

    I have the same need with QB desktop for Mac.  I currently take screenshots and paste into emails so the vendors can see the breakdown of payment.

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    EvA2021
    December 17, 2024

    Here's a way I found to print a full copy of a bill, including a paid stamp.

     

    In Reports, print a transaction report by vendor. Filter your report dates and vendors to suit. Choose the bill and click on the -SPLIT-.  This will bring up the bill with all the items you had on it, and you can print it.

     

    I don't remember how I stumbled into this, but it works!

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