I too am in need to print a report, by TOTAL preferably, what was actually PAID to each of my vendors in a year's time.  Bills don't help because any number of bills may have NOT been paid for one reason or another.  I tried your report above, thought it was what I was looking for, but saw an amount that just wasn't right knowing we just issued several checks to said vendor within the last three months of the dates I entered, when I click on said TOTAL, it shows a list of BILLS, not the payments.  I do not need the bills to be on the report, JUST A TOTAL PAID TO VENDOR (check, online, auto deduct) whatever the payment process was.  I find it hard to believe this is so difficult for QuickBooks.  This should be an easy report....I've tried a few different ways, tried to filter JUST PAYMENTS, coming up with nothing.