Hi I have use a Cheque Holding Bank Account to pay suppliers and I can record the Cheque No in the notes when I mark the invoice as paid. This number shows on the payment receipt. When suppliers cash the cheques this shows up in my Main Bank Account. I then delete the payment made from the Chequ…

Hello @WalkerTim As you are deleting the transaction the notes would not be retained, you would have to manually add it to the notes on the transaction of the cashed cheque on your bank

So there isn’t any way to add it to the notes on the purchase invoice as part of the tagging process?

Thanks, it shows on the bank, but I was hoping to try and keep the reference on the supplier payment receipt but I’m concluding it isn’t possible.

[image] WalkerTim: I then delete the payment made from the Cheque Holding Account and use the tag feature in my Main Bank Account to link the supplier invoice and cleared cheque. Why? If you just marked the money out of the current account as a transfer to the cheque holding account then eve…

I was doing this but reconciling the uncashed cheques was getting difficult so I wanted to eliminate the cheques which cleared. I think I may have to go back to doing it the way you suggest and just keep a spreadsheet which is not ideal but I can’t see a way to do it. Thanks for the help.

One possibility is that you could edit the transaction descriptions within the holding account. For example, you write a cheque and log a payment on a purchase to supplier X, this will create a transaction in your holding account with description “Payment to supplier X”, you then edit that descript…

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QFSteve 6 September 2022 15:09 4

Hello @WalkerTim

You could edit the reference of the bank transaction.

Just click into the box and edit the text as shown below.