Log a bill payment
Record a payment you have already made. Counts toward chooses which month’s bill receives it; Paid date records when you paid. Logging a payment records it in your ledger.
Log a payment for the correct month
Video walkthrough · 1:09
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Record a payment against the right month, even when you paid late. Open Bills, choose Internet, and select Log payment.
Counts toward chooses which month’s bill this pays. For this payment, choose September twenty twenty-six.
Paid date records when you actually paid. We paid on October second. Changing this date keeps the payment against September.
Enter eighty-nine dollars in the bill’s currency. Choose how you paid, and confirm the payer if shown.
Select Log payment. Open the bill’s History to check the saved amount and paid date.
Open Edit to check the saved payment details, then cancel without making changes.
September is paid, and the record keeps October second as the paid date. October’s bill is still unpaid.
Demonstration uses fictional household data. Narration uses an AI-generated voice.
Before you start
Have the actual amount and payment date ready. HomeWeal does not send money to the provider. A viewer can read records but cannot log payments.
Log the payment
- Open Bills and select the bill.
- Select Log payment. An unpaid variable bill may show Confirm amount instead; it opens the same payment form.
- Set Counts toward to the month and year the payment covers.
- Enter the amount you actually paid in the bill’s currency.
- Set Paid date to the day you paid, then choose the method.
- If shown, check Paid by. Add an optional note and Confirmation / reference when useful. Review the statement total above Amount you paid. Select Change beside the month’s bill to edit its full total separately from the payment.
- Select Log payment. Open the bill’s History tab and check the payment under the intended month.
A late payment example
For a USD 89.00 Internet bill covering September 2026, paid October 2, set Counts toward September 2026 and Paid date October 2, 2026. The payment credits September. Changing Paid date does not move it into October’s billing period.
Shared bills and partial payments
Paid by identifies who fronted the money. Don’t split this one excludes that payment from the payer’s settle-up balance; other members keep their usual shares. When available, Assign remaining to gives one member responsibility for the entire billing period’s remaining amount, including other members’ shares. Review that choice before saving.
Correct a payment
Open History and expand the billing month to inspect its transactions. Use the edit or delete control for the relevant payment. Deletion cannot be undone; check the amount, payer and period first.
Why does the bill still show unpaid?
Check Counts toward and any remaining balance. A partial payment does not clear the full bill. Paid date alone does not select the billing month.
I logged the payment against the wrong month. What next?
Check the intended month in History. Remove the mistaken transaction if necessary, then log it again with the correct Counts toward month and Paid date. Avoid recording it twice.