Absolutely. I do it all of the time. ACH transaction # is a perfect reference #.

Thank you!  

My pleasure. You can also go to Maintain / Default Information / Customers and click the Pay Methods tab to add a line for "ACH"

That worked. Thanks for your information!!! I see that the payment shows up on the Outstanding Checks report until it gets marked as cleared.  I added "ACH" to the beginning of the reference number to clarify these are ACH payments. 

Perfect! That's what we do, too.

I'm curious of your process for how you all pay via ACH? We are wanting to start, but not sure where to start as Sage has said they don't support electronic reports. Our bank and said we could provide a NACHA report for the processing of these ACH payments if provided from Sage. I'd love more details from either you or MaryLou ABC about how you all process these payments through both sage and your bank. Thanks in advance! 

Hi Jeff -- we can create a "NACHA Report/Upload file" using Sage Intelligence Reporting that meets your bank's NACHA upload requirements -- we've done this for several customers.  The process works as follows -- you run your payments and identify them as ACH payments as described above, then you run the NACHA Report from Sage Intelligence and it creates the file you need to upload to your bank, you save this file as either a CSV or TXT file and then go to your bank's site and select it to be uploaded.  You can reach us at 1-800-339-8224 or [email protected] to if you have further questions.

We pay via ACH by manually setting up the payee and entering the payment in our banking system.  The payment details are entered in Sage in Payments as described above.  So it's not integrated like check processing, but overall the processing time is about the same.  I will look into a file upload if the volume increases.  

By using the Payments function in Sage, the payment activity flows through to the Account Recon, Vendor Ledger, Cash Disbursements Journal, and 1099 reports.  So, it's much better than posting manual GL entries for ACH payments as I had previously been doing.  I was surprised I couldn't find this info more easily.

Great, Thank you!

Sorry, Jeff, just now saw this. We do the same as above: Manually set up payee and enter payment in banking system. Enter in Sage in Payments. Not large volume of ACH