Purchase Order Paid by Visa

Hello,

We have AP vendor accounts set up for our company Visa cards. I enter the credit card statements as AP invoices and record Visa payments as prepayments when made. I am wondering how to account for the following:

A purchase order was created for an order of some new miscellaneous inventory items; the items were received and the outstanding amount was paid by Visa. The PO was made out to the supplier that sold us the inventory items, and the payment is reflected on the Visa statement.

I would like to post a PO invoice so that the cost is allocated to the inventory items, but am not sure the best way of doing this, as payment was made by Visa (an AP vendor). If I enter the supplier invoice as a PO invoice, there will be an amount owing to them on the AP listing, but it has already been paid by Visa.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks!

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    Easier to make the Visa card a bank account that carries a negative balance.

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    As Django says, add a VISA bank account and do not use a VISA AP Vendor.

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    Note that setting up your VISA account as a bank account in Bank Services does not mean that you need to set up a separate vendor for every charge. Charges for which you do not want to set up a separate AP vendor are entered as miscellaneous payments in AP on the VISA bank account to your VISA vendor.  All such charges each month can be entered as one misc. pmt., with one detail line for each charge, to send them to the appropriate expense accounts (and maintain a record of each charge). You then enter a bank transfer (in Bank Services) from your checking account to your VISA account for the total of that misc. payment to record your payment to VISA for those charges.