How to Enter Credit Card Charges in QuickBooks
The important thing to remember is, if you don’t enter a bill for your payment after reconciling, and enter it later, you must enter your credit card account. The Account field defaults to the top of the expenses, but all your accounts are listed in the drop-down menu, so just go up until you find your credit card account. You do not want to enter an expense account here, because the expense was already entered in the Enter Credit Card Charges screen. You also won’t reduce the balance owed to your credit card, if you don’t use the credit card account here.
One of our consultants could give you a brief training to walk you through how to do this.
Written by +Ruth Perryman, CMA, CFE, CFM, MBA





Ruth has provided QuickBooks help to thousands of businesses around the world since 1996. She is an Intuit Solutions Provider, an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, and a member of the Intuit Trainer/Writer Network. She is also certified in QuickBooks Point of Sale and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions.
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I usually make a few hundred dollars payment towards my credit card every week so I don’t have a huge bill at the end of the month. Can you please tell me how I should post that in Quickbooks? I make payment online with my checking account and I don’t write out a check..
HI Peter,
You can write a check with your credit card account as the expense account and just remove the check number. Personally, I prefer doing a bank transfer (Banking > Transfer Funds).
Also, if you use online banking it’s often downloaded as a journal entry. That’s my least favorite option because I recommend avoiding journal entries as much as possible, but online banking sure is handy so I put up with it!
Ruth