--- title: How to See Who Owes You in QuickBooks Online description: What do you do first when you sign on to QuickBooks Online? The site opens to your Dashboard, which provides a quick overview of your company's... image: https://blog.portebrown.com/hubfs/980x411%20-%20How%20to%20See%20Who%20Owes%20You%20in%20QuickBooks%20Online.jpg --- [![Porte Brown logo](https://blog.portebrown.com/hubfs/PB%20Logo%20-%20Web%20400dpi%20--%20LARGE-HighRes-01.svg "Porte Brown logo")](https://portebrown-6854056.hs-sites.com/) [![Porte Brown logo](https://blog.portebrown.com/hubfs/PB%20Logo%20-%20Web%20400dpi%20--%20LARGE-HighRes-01.svg "Porte Brown logo")](https://portebrown-6854056.hs-sites.com/) Search # How to See Who Owes You in QuickBooks Online ![calendar-icon](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2040891/Marketplace/WASABI/icons/icon-calendar.svg) * By [ Porte Brown ](https://blog.portebrown.com/author/porte-brown-llc) - January 02, 2025 * How to See Who Owes You in QuickBooks Online 5:10 **What do you do first when you sign on to QuickBooks Online?** The site opens to your Dashboard, which provides a quick overview of your company's finances. It's easy enough to branch out from there to take care of business, whether it's paying bills or categorizing newly downloaded transactions from your bank or checking your account balances. Those tasks are all important, but you probably don't do all of them every time you have a QuickBooks Online session. One thing you should do frequently — every time you access the site, really — is check to see who you owe and who owes you. We're going to focus on the latter, because it has such an impact on your overall cash flow. QuickBooks Online provides several ways to ensure you're getting paid for your goods and services and to identify any late payments. This information is vital for understanding how your receivables compare to your payables, helping you determine whether you're making a profit, breaking even, or losing money. Here's an overview of the tools available. ## Dashboard Insight QuickBooks Online's Dashboard consists of three elements, accessible by clicking tabs. **Home **is just what it sounds like. It's a home base for the most important numbers in your company file. Pay special attention to the **Income ***widget *(block of data). It gives you an abbreviated look at your open and overdue invoices and your incoming payments over the last 30 days. **TIP***: *Click the **Customize layout **bar if you want to move these widgets around to make them more prominent. ![widget selection](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5b89215f86d604eeaac8ad09/676355ea4f8dfd0c8dc38947_QB_09_2024_image1.jpeg) Click the next tab, **Cash flow**, and scroll down to **MONEY IN**. Here, you'll see the current month's **Upcoming **and **Paid **invoices in a graph, and a list of **Overdue **and **Open invoices**. You can create and view invoices here, too, and see a cash flow chart at the top of the page that goes six months both forward and back. The **Planner **tab opens the more comprehensive **Cash flow planner**, displaying a 1 to 24-month interactive graphic based on transactions you've already entered in QuickBooks Online. (They're listed below.) You can toggle between **Money in/out **and **Cash balance**. On both, you can move your cursor on the chart to see details from individual days and months. You can edit future transactions and add them to see what impact those actions would have on your cash flow. This does not change your QuickBooks Online data. It's merely for demonstration purposes. You could see what would happen to your future cash flow if, for example, you planned to make a major purchase or expected to receive an influx of revenue. ## The Sales Page Your home base for checking on your outstanding cash is the **Sales **page. Hover over **Sales **in the toolbar and select **All sales**. This page provides a visual display of the status of your invoices as they travel through QuickBooks Online. Colored bars represent the five stages in the process: **Estimates**, **Unbilled income**, **Overdue invoices,** **Open invoices and credits**, and **Recently paid**. Each shows you the dollar amount involved and sometimes the number of transactions. So you can see instantly what needs to be moved along and whether you need to nudge a customer to pay. Click any of these, and the list of related transactions appears below. ![sales transactions](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5b89215f86d604eeaac8ad09/676355ea94260dbcb2ef1dc6_QB_09_2024_image2.jpeg) The list is interactive. That is, there's an **Action **column at the end of each row that tells you what your action options are for that particular transaction. For example, for **Unbilled income**, you can **View/Edit**, **View activity**, and **Create invoice**. You can also print the list and export it to Excel. ## Detailed Reporting To gain a deeper understanding of who owes you money, run detailed reports in QuickBooks Online. Click **Reports** in the toolbar and scroll to the **Who owes you** section. Here, you'll find a variety of pre-formatted reports that can be customized to suit your needs and should be run regularly, depending on your business volume. The **A/R Aging Summary** report, for example, shows which customers have current balances and which are overdue by 1-30, 31-60, 61-90, or 91+ days. You can customize this report further by selecting options like **Report period**, **Aging method**, and **Days per aging period**. Other key reports include **Open Invoices**, **Unbilled Time**, **Unbilled Charges**, and **Customer Balance Summary**, which collectively provide a comprehensive view of your receivables. In addition to these, advanced financial reports like the **Statement of Cash Flows**, **Profit and Loss**, and **Balance Sheet** are crucial for assessing your overall financial health. These reports should be generated monthly or quarterly. [Contact the office](https://www.portebrown.com/software-tech/quickbooks) anytime, including if you need: - Assistance running and analyzing financial reports to ensure you have a complete understanding of your financial status, especially if you're applying for a loan or seeking investors. - Advice on managing your receivables – or if your cash flow has grown troubling. - Help understanding the ways QuickBooks Online can assist as you explore the flow of your incoming revenue and try to accelerate it. [![QuickBooks logo](https://blog.portebrown.com/hubfs/QB%20Logo.png "QuickBooks logo")](https://www.portebrown.com/software-tech/quickbooks) #### TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT ### QuickBooks Accounting Software Porte Brown  has been providing support for various financial software packages since 1992. Our QuickBooks experts are well known for helping clients select the right software for their business needs. After the software is selected, we develop an efficient implementation plan to get your company up and running on time and within budget... [![Learn More](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/6854056/7a03eaf0-5813-48ab-8217-3ffec10cd5ef.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/6854056/7a03eaf0-5813-48ab-8217-3ffec10cd5ef) Comments ### Sign Up for the PB NewsBlog Stay up-to-date with the latest Porte Brown news and service updates, upcoming events and industry happenings, reminders of upcoming filing deadlines, updates on emerging technologies, and more! ## What's New ## Recent News [ **2026 Remote Retailer Tax Amnesty Program** 02 July 2026 ](https://blog.portebrown.com/illinois-remote-retailer-tax-amnesty-2026) [ **Protect Your Money-Saving Use of Independent Contractors** 02 July 2026 ](https://blog.portebrown.com/protect-your-money-saving-use-of-independent-contractors) ## Contact Us Porte Brown LLC 845 Oakton St. Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 Copyright © 2026 Porte Brown LLC. All rights reserved. ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Porte Brown", "url" : "https://blog.portebrown.com/author/porte-brown-llc" }, "dateModified" : "2025-01-02T06:45:00.464Z", "datePublished" : "2025-01-02T06:45:00.000Z", "headline" : "How to See Who Owes You in QuickBooks Online", "image" : [ "https://blog.portebrown.com/hubfs/980x411%20-%20How%20to%20See%20Who%20Owes%20You%20in%20QuickBooks%20Online.jpg" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://blog.portebrown.com/how-to-see-who-owes-you-in-quickbooks-online", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://blog.portebrown.com/hubfs/PB%20Logo%20-%20Web%20400dpi-1.png" }, "name" : "Porte Brown LLC" } } ```