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Ana
Ana Member Posts: 4 ✭
edited July 2020 in Accounts Hosted
I enter all bank purchases as cheques, and they used to come up with a blank cheque number, until I have, after a long time, actually written a real bank cheque and assigned a number for it. Since then, any purchase from the bank account that I want to enter comes with pre-filled chq number. How can I get rid of this pre-filling? 

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  • Ana
    Ana Member Posts: 4 ✭
    edited February 2020
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    Also to add, I read responses to similar question that it has to have some sort of consecutive pre-filling, but that was not a case before. I know for a fact that, when I used old school Reckon (on CDs), There was a solution to this problem, I just cannot remember what it was. 
  • Kris_Williams
    Kris_Williams Member Posts: 3,293 Reckon Accounts Hosted Expert Reckon Accounts Hosted Expert
    edited May 2020
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    Tick the box - cheque to print, instead of cash/cheque, it’s in the cheque window
  • Ana
    Ana Member Posts: 4 ✭
    edited July 2020
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    But it then asks me to allocate a chq number, and when I left it blank it refused to print. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
  • John Graetz
    John Graetz Member Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭
    edited February 2020
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    Unfortunately this relates to something from a bygone era, when cheques were the go.  Once a number is used, there is no apparent way to get rid of it.  The solution by Kris will work, but then one ends up with a long list of cheques that require printing under Print Forms. There should be an option which either allows EFT to be set permanently (probably applicable to 99.9% of cases these days) or an option to turn off consecutive cheque numbering.  I like to record the real method of payment which sometimes might be auto debit, EFT, BPay etc.
    Ana, to overcome your problem in those cases where you want to actually print off the cheque as a record of what you have done, I enter a cheque number of 1, it will likely tell me that is duplicated, accept this, print it off and then before finally recording, change the number to whatever you want.  It is a bit messy, but works for those odd situations or whatever.  The real solution though is to have an option to turn off auto cheque numbering permanently.
    John L G
  • Ana
    Ana Member Posts: 4 ✭
    edited July 2020
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    Looks like it John. But what puzzles me is that I actually had it set NOT to fill in the chq number, although I used to pay paper cheques before. It only now reverted to pre-filling after I had to pay someone via bank cheque. I am certain it was possible to overcome this problem in previous version of Reckon or back when it was Quickbooks. 

    And to add to your solutions, eftpos purchases should really not be called 'cheques' but should have a separate way of entry. After all these years, I think it's time :) 

  • John Graetz
    John Graetz Member Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭
    edited February 2020
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    Very true, Ana, very true.  Hopefully somebody from Reckon might pick this up and run with it.  We can only hope.
    John L G

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