Can someone tell me how to turn off having check numbers automatically assigned when you are doing automatic bill payment? The number is being assigned in QuickBooks, but when it comes back from the bank, the transactions won't match up because the transaction from the bank after its been paid has no number assigned, but the transaction in my check register does have a number assigned.
I want to turn off automatic number assignment in quick books
Memorize the transaction with some thing other than a check number in the check number field. Use all alpha characters.
I wish one could turn off automatic numbering in the case of cheques.
I use internet banking for nearly all payments, and the assigned cheque number is therefore meaningless and makes it difficult to distinguish between genuine cheques and other payments.
Allan's suggestion is a good one for regular payments, which I take it to be your concern. I hadn't thought of it.
For interest, the workaround I use is to give a non-cheque payment a negative number. QB will then automatically give the next payment the next negative number until I switch to a positive number for a cheque payment. The negative numbers are meaningless but because they are preceded by a minus sign I know to ignore them.
For once-off payments, the negative numbering approach may be a simpler option than the memorised transaction approach.
Ken
George Stevens> Can someone tell me how to turn off having check numbers automatically
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