Newbie question - credit card / current account

[mbygrave]

I have started as a sole trader. I have a Starling business account and Starling personal account. I also have a credit card.
I have recorded a purchase for IT services and then paid for it on my personal credit card. I did this to use the free credit period whilst waiting for some cash flow into my business account.
I have paid the billing item on my credit card (£79.99) from my Starling business account funds after a client paid me.
I will wait for bank Feed to update overnight and then go to > outstanding purchase > log payment > select > paid from > business account by > bank transfer.
Have I done this correctly from a bookkeeping point of view or was there a better way?

Sorry if dumb question but never worked for myself before.

[Lurch]

@mbygrave

I will wait for bank Feed to update overnight and then go to > outstanding purchase > log payment > select > paid from > business account by > bank transfer.
Have I done this correctly from a bookkeeping point of view

Basically, no.

You should mark the purchase as paid from the credit card account. The payment on the Starling feed should then be tagged from the bank account as “transfer between accounts”.

Have you read any of the guides in the knowledge base on using Quickfile?

[mbygrave]

Hi Lurch

I have read slot of the basic guides and most have been helpful. I did look at basic bookkeeping but wasn’t sure.
Thanks for the advice and I will do what you say.
The reason I asked was because it didn’t seem like an accurate record of trail of funding and clearly I was right to be cautious.

Thanks