Postdated cheques - print only or process the transaction?

I need to print a bunch of postdated cheques for landlord.

Landlord wants the security deposit, and rent cheques dated 1st of each month - until current year end only, no crossing of the fiscal or calendar year.

I was thinking of creating a purchase order with security deposit as a prepayment, for X months rent and then filling one month at a time. 

Do I process these payment transactions by changing Sage session date (create a postdated payment, print the cheque, process the transaction, change session date, repeat)? Wondering if having all these future dated transactions is going to affect bank account reconciliations between now and Dec 31 in any way?

Or should I only print the cheques and do not process the transactions now, making a note of each cheque's number so it's not reused betwen now and Dec 31 (actual transactions to be processed later on the 1st of each month when landlord cashes the cheque?). 

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TL;DR Need to print postdated cheques in current fiscal year. Print cheques only and do not post until cashed by landlord? Or print cheques AND post now future dated payment transactions?

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    I prefer to print cheques and post them now until the end of the fiscal year. There is no need to change the session date as you can always process post dated entries in the same fiscal year. This does not change anything in the bank reconciliation as only transactions dated prior to the end of the period being reconciled will show up for reconciliation. Each of the cheques will be patient and wait their turn to be reconciled. This also maintains the cheque numbering sequencing with no manual controls required.