If you pay independent contractors outside of Wave, you must manually mark the contractor bills as paid. This records the payment in Wave.
For users with an active payroll subscription, Wave will generate year-end forms for independent contractors who meet the eligibility requirements.
For businesses in the United States, you must have an active payroll subscription with at least one employee to manually add a payment to a bill for an independent contractor.
You import or upload your transactions into Wave
When the bill payment transaction is in Wave, categorize it as a Payment Sent for a Bill in Wave, then select the outstanding bill. This links the transaction to the bill. Learn how to categorize a transaction.
You manually add your transactions into Wave
Once you have paid the bill, manually mark it as paid from the Bills page. This will create an expense transaction on your Transactions page for your records.
To bookkeep a regular vendor payment, see Add a payment to a bill.