Set up suppliers to use Supplier Payments

Once you've enabled Supplier Payments for suppliers, you pay them directly using Supplier Payments. You can either use generate payments or create individual payments.

Supplier approval process

When you enable Supplier Payments for a supplier, they will be submitted as a payee to Supplier Payments for approval. Your Supplier Payments account approver must authorise the payee via the Supplier Payments portal, before you can pay them from Sage 200 using Supplier Payments.

You can check whether the payee has been approved by checking the Status on the supplier record, or by using the Supplier Payments dashboard.

Set a supplier to use Supplier Payments

To set up a supplier to use Supplier Payments, you will need to:

  • Include key information in the supplier details, which is checked during the approval process.

  • Enable Supplier Payments for the supplier and submit their details for approval.
  • Set the supplier's payment group to use Supplier Payments.
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The information you provide must be accurate and complete so that your payments can be processed by Supplier Payments. This ensures your payment is not delayed, lost or misapplied.

To set a supplier to use Supplier Payments:

Open: Purchase Ledger > Purchase Accounts > Enter New Account or Amend Account Details.

  1. Select a supplier account.
  2. On the Company tab, ensure that the following are entered:
    • The Currency.

    • The company Name.

    • The City, or the city in Address line 3 (if not using segmented addresses).
    • The Postcode.

    • The Country (if using segmented addresses).
  3. On the Bank tab:
    1. Ensure that the Account name is filled in.
    2. For UK suppliers that use pound sterling as their currency, you will need to include:

      • Sort code and Account number.
    3. For suppliers that do not use pound sterling as their currency, you will need to include either:

      • BIC/Swift number and IBAN.
      • BIC/Swift number and an additional clearing code for that country (for countries that don't use IBAN).

  4. On the Payment tab:
    1. Select Enable Supplier Payments.

      Note: The supplier will be submitted for approval to your Supplier Payments account approver. The Status will indicate the progress, and display Approved when you can make payments to the supplier.

    2. Set the Payment group to Supplier Payments or Supplier Payments and Remittance.

  5. Click Save and then Submit Now.

    If prompted, enter your Supplier Payments login details and digits from your PIN.

  6. Click Continue and then Allow.

Enable Supplier Payments for a batch of suppliers

If you have already set up your supplier accounts, and you want to enable Supplier Payments for group of suppliers:

Open: Purchase Ledger > Suppliers List.

  1. Select all the suppliers in the list that you want to amend.
  2. Select Amend Account.

  3. Enable Supplier Payments for each supplier in turn.

    To do this, see the section Set a supplier to use Supplier Payments.

  4. After you save your changes, you can click the next button to move to the next supplier account.