Remove the automatic cheque numbers for every transaction in spend money and payroll. Most clients use internet banking & EFT these days, so cheques shouldn't be the default option. If you write a cheque you should manually enter the cheque number in MYOB.
Banking: Change the Automatic Cheque Numbering
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- OzkitchensExperienced Cover User
Could the name for this be changed to something like Reference No: ?
Also could the length of the Cheque Number be increased to at least 10 digits, as our banking reference number is 10 digits.
Thankyou
- AlyCover User
Please increase the digit space in 'Cheque No'. I use EFT for payments and the reference number is at least 9 digits long. Why can't this space be unlimited digits?
reference no. would be good to cover all types of payments and our bank users reference numbers of 10 digits.
Ozkitchens wrote:Could the name for this be changed to something like Reference No: ?
Also could the length of the Cheque Number be increased to at least 10 digits, as our banking reference number is 10 digits.
Thankyou
- Maggie99Partner
Todays businesses primarily use EFT as their primary method of payment of accounts. It is difficult to comprehend that an accounting software does not provide adequately for the broader business community.
As a minimum, there should be a facility to provide a preference setting to accommodate EFT as a default entry for mode of payment.
It is noted that previous requests for this facility were marked as 'solved' when the solution provided in response was 'no this cannot be done' . The only suggestion provided by the MYOB respondent was to set up a recurring entry - how absurd.
- ronatbasUltimate Partner
Hi Maggie
Of course I like nearly every other user would love to see this problem sorted, but the problem is a bigger than it appears at first glance. MYOB needs a discrete number on every cheque, not for day to day usage, but for imported lists of spend Money transactions. If you export/prepare a list in Excel and attempt to Import it into an existing file it will not happen as it sees the EFT as duplicate. There is a work around this problem, you need to concatenate a number sequence into the Cheque # cell so you end up with EFT1, EFT2 etc. What MYOB needs to do is downgrade the Cheque # to entered with warnings and it could then allow some form of alpha/alphanumeric to run in cheque number box.
Ron
- Rebecca12345Experienced Cover User
Hello
alhtough i think MYOB's feature of warning of duplicated cheque numbers is a necessary option, it would be good if we could set certain words which would not set off the duplicated cheque number warning. For example, we use BPay, EFT and D/Debit all the time for the cheque numbers and it is annoying that it advises us every time that they are duplicated.
thanks
Rebecca
- John_PFormer Staff
Hi there, just wondering if there's going to be a change to the "Cheque No." title in the Send Payment area? Would be better if it was possible to intstead have this modified to "EFT No." instead.
- Julie_BTrusted User
Hi JPH - I get your frustration so I enter 99.9% of my data through "use recurring", and in the recurring schedule information you can choose the data that goes into the "cheque" field automatically.
With companies whom I enter purchases who use hand-written purchase orders I specify three dots (...) so then the auto number doesn't get generated and used accidentally, I can then search for purchases that don't have an order number yet, but I have an invoice for etc.
In the Banking/Spend Money field I choose DD (direct debit) EP (eftpos), etc. My suggestion would be to create a use-recurring that appears at the top of the list, eg name it .EP (the dot should bring it to the top of the use recurring list), so you only have to then choose "enter" to use it ... then enter your data from there.
Hope this helps... :)
- Dan_MoultonFormer StaffStatus changed:NewtoOpenThanks for the feedback. We've taken this on board with our upcoming Bank Feeds function which only uses Cheque number when the source is actually a cheque, otherwise we default to EFT. This should save a lot of typing!
- BetabizExperienced Cover User
Hi
It drives me mad having to change the "cheque no" field in Spend Money or Pay Bills field from a number to a reference such as BP/AP/DD etc. Particulary when you are paying bills and grouping with electronic payments.
I dont think just changing the bank feeds takes this solution far enough.
Perhaps if you take the option to "group with electronic payments" the system could automatically change the reference field to a default reference, that is setup in Preferences. OR in Pay Bills or Spend Money, the Cheque No field could default to the last reference that was used?
In reality, who really even uses cheques that often anymore?? This field should probably be labelled "Reference" and most definitely have the ability to NOT have incremental numbers.
Cheers
Bianca
- Julie_BTrusted User
Agreed Bianca - hopefully they will look at this further.
- Julia_BerkhoutSuper PartnerAnother suggestion is to allow more than 8 characters for the payment reference field. Also the downside of using the same reference such as EFT for all payments can really make you suffer when importing and exporting and some reports group payments together if they have the same reference even when they are clearly different/separate (from memory). Thanks
- Alex_NovakovicPartner
My request is related to this issue. When paying for purchase invoices through the AP To Do List, the next available cheque number is entered by the system. There should be a choice to enter your own designation or any or all payments being made, eg eft, dd etc.
I also would like to add that this whole issue should be high priority as I can't believe that it hasn't been brought up previously.
Cheers, Alex
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