Delete $0 paycheques from Prepare Electronic Payments list

How am I able to delete $0 paycheques from 'Prepare Electronic Payments' when I printout the payment list?

When I go to 'Prepare Electronic Payments' and Print all the historical $0 pay cheques appear, each week I have to go in to additional filters and filter out names in the Card File to print the current payments. They only appear when I go to print.

Is there a way for these historical $0 pays to be deleted from the payment list?

Tracey_H
4 years ago
Hi KCKDA

If running the Electronic Payments Register report is not suitable the only other option available to clear those historical transactions would be to create a new electronic clearing account.

To create a new electronic clearing account:

make sure there are no transactions in the Prepare Electronic Payments window, once you link the new electronic clearing account you won't be able to create ABA files for transactions linked to the old account

create the new electronic clearing account in Accounts List, making sure the Account Type is Bank

go to Setup>>Linked Accounts and change the Bank Account for Electronic Payments to the new account, you'll need to do this for Accounts & Banking Accounts and Payroll Accounts

going forward make sure you change the Payment Method in the Pay Employee window when processing a $0 pay. If the Payment Method is electronic, you'll end up with the same problem again.

The Unprocessed Electronic Payments report will show those 0.00 transactions because they are effectively unprocessed. However, the Electronic Payments Register report only shows transactions which were included in the payment, as such, the 0.00 transactions are not included in that report.

Please let me know if you need further help.

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Tracey_H
Former Staff
4 years ago
Hi KCKDA

Thanks for your post. To stop those void paycheques from appearing in the Unprocessed Electronic Payments report you can open the transaction and change the Payment Method, which will change the Pay from Account.

There's a couple of things you'll need to check before you do this:

go to Setup>>Preferences>>Security tab and make sure Transactions can't be changed; they must be reversed is not ticked

go to Setup>>Linked Accounts>>Payroll Accounts and check the linked account for either Cash or Cheque payments. You want the linked account to be a payroll clearing account not a bank account or the electronic clearing account.

Then open that report, click on a 0.00 pay to open it and change the Payment Method to Cash or Cheque ( whichever has a linked clearing account). This transfers the transaction from the electronic clearing account to the payroll clearing account so it will no longer appear in that report.

Another option is process the electronic payment then go to Reports>>Banking and print the Electronic Payments Register.

Going forward, when you process a $0 pay make sure you change the Payment Method in the Pay Employee window so that the Pay from Account is the payroll clearing account not the electronic payment account.

Please let me know if you need further help.

If my response has answered your enquiry please click "Accept as Solution" to assist other users find this information.
- KCKDA
  Contributing Cover User
  4 years ago
  Thank you for your reply Tracey. I have gone through both of your suggestions below and neither has worked.
  These are historical pay cheques (2016-2017) so I am unable to go in to change the payment method and they only appear when I go to PRINT the electonic payment list.
  - Tracey_H
    Former Staff
    4 years ago
    Hi KCKDA
    
    If running the Electronic Payments Register report is not suitable the only other option available to clear those historical transactions would be to create a new electronic clearing account.
    
    To create a new electronic clearing account:
    
    make sure there are no transactions in the Prepare Electronic Payments window, once you link the new electronic clearing account you won't be able to create ABA files for transactions linked to the old account
    
    create the new electronic clearing account in Accounts List, making sure the Account Type is Bank
    
    go to Setup>>Linked Accounts and change the Bank Account for Electronic Payments to the new account, you'll need to do this for Accounts & Banking Accounts and Payroll Accounts
    
    going forward make sure you change the Payment Method in the Pay Employee window when processing a $0 pay. If the Payment Method is electronic, you'll end up with the same problem again.
    
    The Unprocessed Electronic Payments report will show those 0.00 transactions because they are effectively unprocessed. However, the Electronic Payments Register report only shows transactions which were included in the payment, as such, the 0.00 transactions are not included in that report.
    
    Please let me know if you need further help.
    
    If my response has answered your enquiry please click "Accept as Solution" to assist other users find this information.