How suppliers help with payables and cash flow

Suppliers help you understand payables: money your business owes. By linking bills to suppliers, Bizwazi can show bill totals and outstanding balances by supplier.

What payables mean

• Payables are amounts your business owes to suppliers or service providers.
• They may include unpaid stock bills, rent, electricity, transport, repairs, internet, and other supplier bills.

How Bizwazi shows payables

• Supplier cards can show Bills total.
• Supplier cards can show Bills outstanding.
• Supplier profiles can show linked bills.
• Bill statuses can show unpaid, part-paid, paid, overdue, or balance due depending on the bill record.

Why this matters for cash flow

• You can see who still needs to be paid.
• You can avoid surprise debts.
• You can plan payments before buying more stock.
• You can identify suppliers with large outstanding balances.
• You can separate profitable sales from unpaid obligations.

Example

• A business may have strong sales this week, but if supplier bills outstanding are high, the owner still needs to keep enough cash or M-PESA balance to pay suppliers.

Good habit

• Check suppliers with outstanding bills before placing large new stock orders.
• Review bill-only suppliers weekly so rent, electricity, and service bills are not forgotten.