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Navigate your Bills tab

Find, filter and manage your bills, including how documents are automatically filtered and how to display old or direct debit bills.

Written by Zach Hewlin

Your Bills tab, under Pay in the sidebar, keeps every bill you've uploaded or synced from your accounting software in one place, ready for you to pay.

Looking to edit, cancel, or review payments you've already made or scheduled? See Manage your payruns.

How your Bills list stays relevant

When you upload a document, Apron checks whether it looks like a genuine bill. If it's likely a receipt, a subscription confirmation, or something you've already paid, we keep it out of your main Bills list automatically. Nothing is deleted, it's just tucked away until you need it.

To find these documents, select the small icon next to Filter. Each one shows why it was set aside – for example, not a bill, paid, or subscription – and you can hover over it for a quick preview. From here you can:

  • Add to bills – move it into your main Bills list

  • Download file – save a copy

  • Delete permanently – remove the document for good, rather than just leaving it filtered

You can also mark a supplier as direct debit from this view – see Bills from direct debit suppliers below.

If a document ends up in your main list by mistake, select the menu next to it and choose Move out of bills to send it back – you can find it again later in the filtered list. The same menu also lets you Edit its details and Download file.

Can't find an invoice at all? It might be sitting in a pending payrun – see Why can't I see my invoice in the Bills list?.

Bills from direct debit suppliers

If you pay a supplier by direct debit, you can keep their bills separate from your main Bills list. You're always in control of which suppliers are set this way – if Apron thinks a bill looks like a direct debit, you'll see a Mark as direct debit? prompt, but nothing changes unless you confirm it.

You can also mark a supplier as direct debit at any time by selecting the menu next to any of their bills and choosing Mark as direct debit.

Once marked, their bills move into a direct debit section at the bottom of the Bills page. Select it to expand and view them. From the menu on a bill there, you can:

  • Unmark supplier as direct debit – moves all their bills back into the main Bills list

  • Mark bill as payable – moves just that one bill into the main Bills list

Once you're ready to pay, you can pay bills individually or together – see Pay bills in batches.

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