The Payments Module is where you record payments you have received from your customers and payments you have made to your suppliers. The benefits of using this module are:


  • you can track the money that has been paid to you and the money you have paid out
  • you check the money paid to you against invoices you have sent and bills you have received 
  • it allows you to keep track of outstanding and missing payments 
  • you can manage your cash-flow better by understanding what invoices and bill are overdue

The Payments Module can be accessed in a few different ways. You can apply a payment from the Invoice/Expense form, or it is accessed through the top menu bar using the Financial > Payments button. There are five main options in the menu:


Receive A Payment allows you to create a new payment (when you receive money from someone) and save it in your Blink account


Search Payments Received allows you to search through your existing payments (that you have received from people) and open, edit and view them


Make A Payment allows you to create a new payment (when you have paid someone money) and save it in your Blink account


Search Payments Made  allows you to search through your existing payments (when you have paid someone money) and open, edit and view them


Payments Dashboard provides you with charts and statistics giving an overview of the payments you have stored in your Blink account

Payments Received


Search and View Payments Received


When you click Search Payments Received the search form will open in a new tab. This screen has a search panel on the top part of the screen and the search results on the bottom half of the screen. This will automatically default to the last 10 payments entered. You can search and filter payments that show in the results list by typing in the search box/es and clicking Search. This will shrink the results list to just payments that contain your search text. 


To view full details of a payment you can click the payment and the full payments record will open in a new tab. An example is shown below:



All payments received are recorded against invoices sent. So the invoice number and the amount of the invoice is shown for easy reference. A payment is simply a recording of the following items:


Payment Amount: this is the amount you received


Payment Method: this is how you received the payment, e.g. by cheque or EFT or cash


Payment Date: this is the day you received the money 


Notes: this is for any notes or memos you would like to record with the payment 


The Properties panel when clicked to open will tell you who created the payment and when.