Hi Bernie
not sure about the Mac
I ran it in my essentials and the payee came up but was mainly blank also
so , the question is
do you use bank feeds
do you allocate transactions this way, generally?
do you use bank rules?
in my experience
if you allocate from bank feeds by using the allocate option , you are not entering a payee name
the same will apply with bank rules unless you set the rule up with a payee.
so given that , I suggest , based on the fact that all your transactions are generally carried out by you from the bank itself and then entered into myob
go to your bank account
find the payee you want to find in myob
how do you normally pay them ?
Bpay? Direct transfer?
with each payment a reference comes into the bank in your bank statement, this is what makes up your bank feed
there is something in that description that you should be able to search on in find bank transactions in myob. Having said that most banks can provide a summary of the payments to that payee
To effectively search you need to find the fields that you entered that can be searched.
sometimes you need to think outside the square
eg I spend money on electricity but I can't find it under the supplier Ergon
I will look for transactions in the gl account for electricity
if you know a starting point then you may be able to find what you are looking for
Another example is I get some printing done by Snap Printing , however their transactions are shown in the bank as KNS Pty Ltd, would never find it if I kept searching for snap but I can see it in printing and stationery
It would appear the only sure way to be able to search on a supplier is to actually enter an invoice for that supplier
hope that helps
Lisa