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duplicate online [repeating] payment

This is a bit baffling. I noticed that an online payment had appeared twice in my register. I can't figure out what is going on -- is it really going to be paid twice?? The normal date for the scheduled payment [for december] is 12/24 and that has no check # assigned [my online bill pay check #s are all in the nine-thousands]. It just has a little envelope and says "bill due on 12//24" The second one looks like a full proper [but duplicated] online payment -- dated 12/27, check # 9752 and its "status" lightning bolt says "process on 12/22, deliver on 12.27" its little envelope says "unclear bill pay transaction from Wells Fargo".

They're both the account register. I *think* the problem is that the transaction somehow got repeated-payment processed twice: once as an online payment and one as a regular payment. I wonder if it has something to do with [bugs??] in trying to do BOTH via online payment and via printed-check payments. There's already a bug in the write-checks window: I can uncheck "make online payment", and then enter my payee/amount the button at the bottom changed to "print" and the goes into the register as a check-to-print. BUT: the "use online payment" is re-checked and the button at the bottom is reset to SEND and if I click on it [not noticing that it is wrong] it screws up. I need to uncheck "use online payment "

*twice* to do a printed check.

Anyhow that story aside, back to my duplicated transactions: It looks like the non-lightning-bolt non-check-#ed one is a bogus transaction. [the other looks like the way my normal online repeating transactions are entered into the register]. So I thought I'd just delete the bogus one. BUT: I can't "deleted" it -- when I right-click on it the only options are "pay" "edit this instance and all future instances" and "delete this instance and all future instances" [and indeed, if I do "delete" what happens is that it then becomes a cancel-delete transaction in my repeating online payments list.

So I'm not sure now what to do to get all this sorted out. I'm guessing if I do nothing the "real" payment will get processed and clear and the bogus one will just sit there. I suppose that at that point I can really cancel the online repeating payment and then just re-set-it-up beginning anew new january.

/Bernie\

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Bernie Cosell
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That is evidence that the "transaction" is not really a true "transaction", but is a "reminder". A reminder that appears there because the option to "Show reminders ...." in the account register is turned on.

To stop "showing" reminders in the register, click the Account Actions gear-wheel icon in the upper right of the register, put your cursor on "Reminders to show in register", and select "Don't show reminders".

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John Pollard

That is evidence that the "transaction" is not really a true "transaction", but is a "reminder". A reminder that appears there because the option to "Show reminders ...." in the account register is turned on.

To stop "showing" reminders in the register, click the Account Actions gear-wheel icon in the upper right of the register, put your cursor on "Reminders to show in register", and select "Don't show reminders".

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JohnA

I'm not completely clear on your problem description; but it does not seem to indicate the same problem as the original poster.

I suggest you start a new discussion here, and provide more details about the steps you take and the results you get. Be specific about how, and where, your transactions are setup (more information than "online transaction", for example).

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John Pollard

} On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 11:10:52 AM UTC-6, Bernie Cosell wrote: } } > } > Anyhow that story aside, back to my duplicated transactions: It looks like } > the non-lightning-bolt non-check-#ed one is a bogus transaction. [the other } > looks like the way my normal online repeating transactions are entered into } > the register]. } } > So I thought I'd just delete the bogus one. BUT: I can't } > "deleted" it -- when I right-click on it the only options are "pay" "edit } > this instance and all future instances" and "delete this instance and all } > future instances" [and indeed, if I do "delete" what happens is that it } > then becomes a cancel-delete transaction in my repeating online payments } > list. } } That is evidence that the "transaction" is not really a true "transaction", but is a "reminder". .... A reminder that appears there because the option to "Show reminders ...." in the account register is turned on. } } To stop "showing" reminders in the register, click the Account Actions gear-wheel icon in the upper right ...of the register, put your cursor on "Reminders to show in register", and ... select "Don't show reminders".

Perfect!!! about the last place I would've thought to look. It was, indeed, set to show reminders at some frequency and when I turned it off my account was magically no longer overdrawn :o)

THANKS!! /bernie\

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Bernie Cosell

I'm not completely clear on your problem description; but it does not seem to indicate the same problem as the original poster.

I suggest you start a new discussion here, and provide more details about the steps you take and the results you get. Be specific about how, and where, your transactions are setup (more information than "online transaction", for example).

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JohnA

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