Q2007 Downloadd problem

I've tried, unsuccessfully I fear, to make sense of your situation. I hoped by waiting a bit, I'd see something in my own billpay transactions that would help me understand, but if there was something, I've missed it. So I'm doing a lot of guessing.

If you are getting an "intermediate" transaction downloaded that does not have a check number so does not match the original transaction in your Quicken register, why not just delete that downloaded transaction (before Accepting it)? (It sounds like it might be telling you that the billpayer has "sent" the check to the payee; interesting information, but not necessary). Since you say you later do get the cleared transaction, I think you are getting all you need ... plus one. It seems to me you only need the original transaction representing the "check you wrote", and the subsequent "check cleared" transaction.

You can verify whether what you are seeing is what was sent by the bank by investigating the OFXlog after the download.

I don't see anything wrong with what you describe - the OFX spec does seem to have a billpay status that specifies the date the payment was "processed". I believe I get that information by clicking on the "Status" link in the Num column in my register ... but I *think* the specs permit that info to be provided in the form of a downloaded transaction.

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