# To pay and Pay now Payouts > Pay day · Guide · https://vendordue.com/docs/to-pay **In short:** To pay lists every vendor whose payout has landed and isn't paid yet, oldest first, with how long they've waited and how to reach them. Pay one or tick several and pay them together. Pay now lands and pays a vendor today, without waiting for their pay day. Who: Admin. Where: Payouts > To pay. **Payouts > To pay** is the list of what you owe. Every vendor on it has a payout that landed and isn't paid in full. Clear it and you're paid up. ## Reading it At the top, **You owe**: the total, how many vendors, and since when: "to 6 vendors, the oldest since Thu, 3 Sep." **The next two weeks** charts what you owe now and what lands each day ahead, so you can see a busy pay day coming. Vendors are grouped: | Group | Means | | --- | --- | | **Overdue** | Landed before today, still unpaid | | **Today** | Landed today | | **Landing soon** | Landing in the next four days, not yours to pay yet | | **Owed to you** | Vendors who owe you for bills. See [Bills and Owed to you](https://vendordue.com/docs/owed-to-you) | *Alder Ceramics' row on 1 October.* Each row shows the vendor, what you owe them, and under it the payout's name and how to reach them: their PayPal or Venmo, an email, or "no PayPal or Venmo yet". A vendor with several unpaid payouts has one row for all of them. Once a payout has waited a while, its row says so: **Waiting 18 days**, in amber from 15 days and red from 30. If a vendor has asked to be paid, the row says that too. ## Pay one vendor Press **Pay** on their row. - If you pay by check, choose **Record a payment** or **Issue a check**. See [Checks](https://vendordue.com/docs/checks). - Otherwise the payment sheet opens straight away. See [Record a payment](https://vendordue.com/docs/record-a-payment). ## Pay several at once Every row starts ticked. Untick anyone you're not paying now, or press **Untick everyone** and tick the ones you are. The bar says what's ticked: "All 6 vendors ticked, $590.40". Then press **Pay 6 vendors**, with your own number, or **Issue 6 checks**. The sheet sorts the vendors by how you can reach them: - **PayPal or Venmo**: vendors who saved one. If you've connected PayPal, a button like **Send $230.00 now** pays them all from your PayPal balance. If not, download the **PayPal file** and upload it on PayPal's Payouts page. See [Send now with PayPal](https://vendordue.com/docs/send-now-paypal). - **Wise, by email**: vendors with an email and no PayPal or Venmo. Download the **Wise file** for a Wise batch payment. - **No way to reach them**: **Add an email** on their page. Every payment in the batch shares one **Reference**, "in the files and on your bank statement", so you can match them later. Pick **When** you paid, choose whether to **Email each vendor a receipt**, and press **Record 6 payments**. **Download everything owed** saves the list as a spreadsheet, one row per vendor with where to pay them. It holds their full payout addresses, so you'll be asked to confirm it's you first. ## Pay now Sometimes a vendor needs paying before their pay day: they're leaving, it's the end of the season, or they asked nicely. On their row in **Payouts > Upcoming**, or on their **Summary**, press **Pay now**. The sheet shows what will land: "A payout lands today with what has cleared and any sale you tick." Held sales are listed under **On hold · tick to include**, unticked. - ****Pay now**** asks how you paid, then lands the payout and records the payment in one step. Over the button it says what will happen: "Pays $72.00 to Alder Ceramics today". The payout is Paid at once. - ****Move to To pay**** lands the payout now, to pay later. If the vendor asked to be paid, Pay now accepts their ask too. A vendor you're holding has to be released first. ## When it looks wrong ### A vendor is in To pay but I already paid them You paid them outside VendorDue and didn't record it. Record it now, with the day you actually paid, under **When**. ### The total is more than I expected Open the vendor's payouts. Charges, refunds and earlier payouts all show as lines. A vendor with two unpaid payouts has both in one row. ### Send now isn't offered It needs PayPal connected in **Settings > Payments**, the vendor's PayPal or Venmo saved, and the whole amount being paid. See [Send now with PayPal](https://vendordue.com/docs/send-now-paypal). ## Common questions **Do I have to pay on the pay day?** No. A payout waits in To pay until you record a payment. Its row shows how long it's waited. **Can I pay part of what's owed?** Yes. In the payment sheet, press the amount beside Paying and type what you paid. The rest stays in To pay. **Can a Viewer pay vendors?** No. Only an Admin records payments. Checked against VendorDue on 2026-10-06.