Need support for multiple accounts for a single vendor
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"After further research I see that I can create multiple entries for the same vendor with different account numbers. However, the problem now is that I can't distinguish between them from the drop down list in the Quicken register."
Subsequently another poster (smutschler) provided a good answer, but with an unnecessary requirement.
User smutschler apparently knew that you can create different payee names for the same payee, while having the payments to that payee showing the same payee name. If you give two Online Payees the same "Name", but give each a different "Description", those two payees will be known in Quicken by the combination of their Name + Description ... while their payments (and their addresses) will use just the Online Payee name (dropping the curly braces and whatever text they enclose).
[When you add a Description to a Quicken Online Payee, the resulting Quicken name will be the Online Payee name suffixed by a space followed by the Description enclosed in curly braces.]But user smutschler thought that you could ONLY achieve that with Online Payees. That left the original poster unsatisfied.
I have tested with Bill Manager and the payee construct noted above works just the same in Bill Manager as it does with Online Payees - the only difference is that you have to create the complete payee name yourself (there is no "Description" to work with, but none is needed). I sent two payments using Quick Pay, both payments to the same real world person; in Quicken the two payees had the same "name" but were followed by unique values in curly braces. When the payments arrived, the check name and the address name had dropped the curly braces and their enclosed text.
So for example, if you wanted Bill Manager to be able to send separate payments for your credit card account and your spouse's credit card account (when both accounts are with the same credit card company), the Quicken Bill Manager payee name might look something like: "Our Credit Card {Spouse 1}" and "Our Credit Card {Spouse 2}". Alternatively: "Our Credit Card {Acct: 1234}" and "Our Credit Card {Acct 5678}.
For either Quicken payee, the payee name on any checks sent, and the name in the address they're sent to, will read, "Our Credit Card".
[You can use the same technique for checks you write using Quicken's Write Check feature.]