Bookkeepers and accountants: How to handle international money transfers?

I’m helping a friend configure his online accounting system. He imports items from Italy from multiple Italian vendors. He makes payments to them through an international money transfer website.

I created a “credit card” account for the international money transfer account, so I could record payments from the intermediary to the individual vendors and also the payments from his bank to the intermediary. This feels like a hack though and I wasn’t sure if there was a better approach. Do you have any suggestions for how to structure and document these payments?