Creating Account for each Vendor to avoid Creating and Paying each Bill?

[Fran_3]

OK, as I understand it after we import checking transactions for a small business...
For each Vendor Payment we must first create a Bill and then Pay that bill so that it remains associated with the vendor. That's a lot of clicking and typing.
So would this work?
In the chart of accounts under say... Expenses > Office Supplies
we create sub accounts for each Office supply vendor...
Than from the check register just assign that payment to that account...
Now we are tracking total office supply expenses and how much we spent with each vendor.
We are considering this for 2017 transactions as we are under a very short deadline to come up with some numbers and every step we save helps.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Fran3