When issuing bills in ContactsLaw, you may include a request for payment of anticipated disbursements. These are disbursements that will occur on the file at some point in the future, but have not yet been incurred.

 

Anticipated disbursements do not have an effect on the debtors ledger and they do not increase the total of a bill. Instead, they appear rolled into the 'Please pay' figure. If/when the client pays for anticipated disbursements, the additional funds will be recorded as an unallocated credit to debtors.

 

When the disbursements are actually incurred, they are recorded in the normal fashion and a new bill is posted. Due to the credit balance, the amount payable for this disbursements-only bill will be zero.