How to delete unwanted past year transaction keep appearing in Prepare Electronic Payments window

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How to delete unwanted past year(12/2023) wages  transaction keep appearing in Prepare Electronic Payments window

Isaiah_C · Answer

Hi @NatWeb,

Nice work on the steps you followed and yep, I get why that one lingering transaction is a pain. What's tripping you up now is just how Prepare Electronic Payments works. It's basically a transfer process. It moves money from the Electronic Clearing Account to a bank account. Because of the way the reversal was handled earlier, that negative amount is still sitting there waiting to be pushed somewhere. The easiest and cleanest way around it is to use a dummy bank account. That gives MYOB somewhere harmless to send that leftover reversal, without touching your real bank account or causing any bank rec dramas.

Regards,
Sai

NatWeb · Answer

Thank you @Genreve_S ,

Your solution works well Thank you so much and it did solve my issue.

But again, one issue arrived due to steps I followed.

* I reversed payroll transaction. Then only select reversed pay transaction and select bank file. So, it creates a deposit entry to my bank register which is unwanted. (Original transaction stays there in Prepare electronic payment window)
* Then I again followed steps to do reverse and select both transactions to get $0 and it worked. (Original transaction disappeared).

But I still have step -1 reversal transaction (-ve amount) appearing in Prepare Electronic payment window.

how to clear this transaction now. ( I do not want to make deposit entry in bank register as will be issue for bank rec.)  any help would be appricated.

Genreve_S · Answer

Hi @NatWeb,

Those old electronic payments hanging around in Prepare electronic payments are definitely an eyesore. If they’re still showing there, it means they’ve never actually been processed as an electronic payment.

There are basically two ways to clear them:

* Process them in a one‑off (real or dummy) ABA file from Prepare electronic payments, then just don’t upload that file to the bank; or
* Reverse the original pay, then include both the original and the reversal in a $0 dummy ABA so they drop off the list.

Because of how MYOB tracks electronic payments, there isn’t a way to just hide or delete those entries without it having some impact on your accounts.

Regards,
Genreve