How do I split an ACH payment between multiple PAYEES? One bank transaction includes payment tome and payment to a contractor. Separate accounts and separate payees!

Hi there, geoffshive. 

I can help you split your payment between multiple payees. 

You can split your downloaded transaction in QuickBooks. Splitting this allows you to divide the payments to multiple payees. I'll show you how: 

1. Go to the Banking menu, then choose the appropriate bank account. 
2. Select the downloaded payment.
3. Click Split next to the Add button. 

Note that when you split a transaction, the amount on each line should match the total amount. 

I've got this to help you tracking, categorizing, and splitting invoice payments in QuickBooks: Download, match, and categorize your bank transactions in QuickBooks Online. 

I'll be right here to continue helping if you have any other concerns or follow-up questions. Stay safe and have a great rest of the weekend.

What a huge oversight from Quickbooks developers not to account for ACH batch mode. It's not a new practice in the financial industry. Any business issuing payment to multiple payees will normally use batch mode to avoid repetitive data entry at a bank's user interface. This feature is very much needed.

Ok I'm just now joining the convo because I was looking to resolve this issue myself. I found a work-around, and unfortunately, it's annoying to have to do this every time if you have lots of transactions like this. 

From my understanding (or at least in my case), I have a downloaded transaction from an online account. I can see where I can split the payment into multiple expenses, but I can only assign one payee for the entire expense. I need to have multiple payees to each split. 

So what I had to do was make a manual journal entry - this is the only place I have found that allows you to make split payments to different payees - you can assign "Name"s to each line of the journal entry. Make sure the credit side account is set to the account that is your online account.

Then, go back to where you can review your transactions from the account. If you have already confirmed that transaction, you have to go to the "categorized" section, and click undo, which will put it back into the "for review" section. Click on this transaction, and select the option up top that says "find match". This will then look into your journal entries and merge the two transactions - your manual journal entry with the downloaded one so that you aren't making a double entry. This makes it to where your transaction has two payees. Unfortunately, you need to have some basic understanding of accounting to not screw up a journal entry, so if you know how to make journal entries, you can do multiple payees. 

Hope this helps!

I found a simple solution and it worked for me using QB online. Yes, if you try to split the payment from the bank feed you only get the option for CATEGORY but not to add 2 payees. 

This works if you have created a check payment already to both payees in QB. Then use the 'Find Match' option under bank feed and you are able to select multiple payees for a single payment. 

Hope this helps!!!

I am trying to split an ACH payment with multiple payees. Any help on this?

You guys need to add this feature. It necessary and really annoying when you have to work on a bunch of transactions. 

Why are we able to split everything but the payee/vendor??? Please help, we need this done asap

Add me to the list trying to get this done. I use bill.com and QBO. I'll pay 5 vendors in bill.com on the same day. It shows up as *one* transaction when syncing to the bank. I have to split it as the 5 vendors. It's driving me nuts. I've tried a couple of the methods here, and I inevitably make a mistake somewhere, which just deepens the problem.