Auto Debit of Checking account

Ouch! That's gotta hurt! :-)

To schedule a payment you use Payment. To scheduled a transfer you'd use Transfer. And, if do you this, you'd schedule a Deposit. The only type above that would "ensure I do not try to send the payment" would be the Online Payment (the Printed Check would nag you about printing the check and if you were foolish enough to do that you'd still have to be foolish enough to actually put it in an envelop and send it!).

What you can't count backwards 5-7 days to schedule the payment?!? BTW online payments are *not* - I repeat not - paid 5-7 days early. They are scheduled 5-7 days early so as to account for the possible delay in the post office (if a actual check need be cut instead of an EFT - this depends on the receiver of your funds). Online payments mimic printed checks in that regard - you don't print your checks on the day that they are do and then attempt to snail mail them - at least not with the foolish notion that they'd make it on time!

Additionally, online checks can be done weeks in advance really. I could, for example, schedule and transmit an online payment for Christmas today. Processing would not start until Christmas.

I personally do not like "auto drafting" as it relinquishes the control that I enjoy with online bill payment.

Not sure I understand the problem; I have quite a few of these myself; they're just payments.

You usually have to manually process (have Quicken "Remind" you of) each payment because the amount is not the same every time. And, depending on the vendor, the date of the actual withdrawal can vary by quite a few days from their announced withdrawal date; depending on your concerns about how much in advance you want payments to enter your register, you may have to be flexible about the transaction date.

I use a Num field value of "EFT" for these payments, but the Scheduled Transaction process does not allow this to be part of a scheduled transaction, so I manually change that for each payment as well.

Thanks John, you got it correct. I too have been manually going in after entering the transaction into the register and adding AutoDebit. My concern is that I might send one accidentally via online payment and also have one auto withdrawn from my account.

Your comment below is exactly what I was trying to get the scheduled transaction to do.

Thanks for the feedback. Where can I find a wish list request form to submit to Quicken to request this feature be added?

Best regards & Happy Holidays

Larry Bowers

I think I have submitted that suggestion myself, but please feel free to add to the list, the more the merrier.

The Intuit support site for Quicken has been under repair lately and embedded links do not always work as I would expect, but try going to the support site here:

Click on your product, and on the resulting page, there is a link on the right hand side called "Tell us what you think".

It the above link doesn't get you there directly, I think you can start at

and work your way there.

To you as well.