MultiLedger offers great flexibility for recording purchases. Depending on the type of purchase you want to record, the three windows you can use are:

Item Purchases
Payables Journal
Disbursements Journal

These windows are discussed in the following table.

If you want to….	Use this transaction window
Record an inventory purchase for resale that creates an outstanding payable	Item Purchases
Record a purchase order	Item Purchases
Record a non-inventory purchase that Payables Journal creates an outstanding payable	Payables Journal
Create outstanding payables that are dated prior to your Start Month (for setting up your company with MultiLedger)	Payables Journal
Record a check written for purchases not involving inventory or outstanding payables	Disbursements Journal