Paying a bill — what is available today

Paying a vendor is an action on the bill itself, in Accounting → Bills (AP). There is no separate Bill Pay tab — you open the bill you want to pay and act on it there.

Recording a payment today:
1. Go to Accounting → Bills (AP) and open the bill.
2. The bill must be Approved before it can be paid — see "Approving a bill".
3. Pay the vendor from your own bank, however you normally do.
4. Back on the bill, click Mark Paid and confirm.
5. The bill moves to Paid, the payable is cleared, and the expense is recorded against your chart of accounts.

About ACH bill payment:
You will see a "Pay via ACH" button on an approved bill. Opening it tells you plainly that ACH bill payment is not available yet, and why: Turtini never holds your funds, so paying a vendor has to debit your org's own connected bank account directly, and that rail is still being built. Until it ships, pay from your bank and use Mark Paid to record it.

This is a deliberate constraint, not an oversight. Turtini is the rails, not the bank — your money stays in your accounts, under your control, and never sits in a Turtini-held balance.

Vendor bank details you have already saved are not wasted — they stay on the vendor record and carry over when the direct-debit rail arrives. See "Saving a vendor's bank details".

Who can do this:
Marking a bill paid is a permissioned action — it follows your org's accounting capability settings, so a bookkeeper may be able to record a payment while only an admin can approve the bill in the first place.