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Use the Vendor Check window for all vendor check entry.
To open the window where you enter checks for 1099 vendors, vendor agents, and other vendors, choose Vendor Check Entry from the Tasks menu or select the Vendor Check Entry icon on the shortcut bar. If more than one vendor checkbook has been defined for this client, the program will prompt you to choose the checkbook you want to use so that the vendor journal entry will be made to the correct account.
To record a handwritten check: Enter both the Check date and the Check number. When you click the Enter button to accept the handwritten check, the program records a journal entry and, if applicable, automatically updates the 1099 distribution amounts in the vendor record.
See also: Recording handwritten checks
Special information
When the Vendor Check Entry window is active, the following special commands are available from the Edit menu or from the right-click context menu:
Fields & buttons
Lists existing vendor checks by vendor name, check number, check date, and amount.
You may enter (but are not required to enter) the date for this check. The date you enter will repeat automatically for subsequent checks during the current data-entry session but may be overridden at any time until the check is printed.
If you leave the date field blank, the program will prompt you to enter it when you print the check.
After a check has been recorded, a change to the check date will trigger an automatic recalculation of the check amount.
Unprinted Check: Leave this field blank. The program will record the check number automatically when you print the check.
Handwritten check: Enter both the Check date and the Check number. When you click the Enter button to accept the handwritten check, the program records a journal entry and, if applicable, automatically updates the 1099 distribution amounts in the vendor record.
Choose the vendor from the drop-down list.
Notes
- Once a vendor is selected in the drop-down list, press the TAB key to activate the other fields in the dialog and move to the next field.
- If necessary, you may add a new vendor on-the-fly during data entry, or choose Vendors from the Setup menu.
Enter the amount of the vendor check, or you may have the program calculate the check amount automatically as you enter the distribution accounts and amounts in the Vendor Distributions dialog. (Click the Distributions button to open the Vendor Distributions dialog.)
Choose the general ledger account to which the check amount is to be charged by selecting it from the drop-down list.
Note: If the check is to be distributed to multiple accounts, click the Distributions button.
If applicable: From the drop-down list, choose the type of 1099 item to be associated with this check amount.
Opens the Vendor Distributions dialog, which permits you to distribute the check amount among multiple accounts.
Note that you may enter the total check amount in the Vendor Check Entry window first, or you may have the program calculate the total check amount automatically as you enter the distribution accounts and amounts in the Vendor Distributions dialog.
Enter up to 120 characters of text that will print as a memo on the remittance portion of the check.
Note: This information can be pulled automatically from an existing vendor record (from the Check memo field in the Address and Accounts tab of the Setup > Vendors window). Changes you make here during data entry will not affect what is saved on the vendor record.
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