Hi John,

Which Sage product are you using?

Thanks,

Derek

SAGE 50 Quantum Accounting 2013 (SR-1)

Build 20.0.01.1104

Thanks for responding Derek

Hi John,

Since your post relates directly to Sage 50 US, I will move your question to that Support Group so that other users of this software will see it and can offer their thoughts and insight.

Thanks,

Derek

John:

The Write Checks window is usually used for one-off checks. Issuing a check to someone quickly and perhaps only once. The Payments window allows you to either pay invoices or write a check to an existing vendor and directly affect the expense or inventory account. Both will affect the Vendor ledger of a vendor selected. The only real differences are that they appear on different lists and you cannot pay invoices by using the Write Checks window--that has to be done on the payment window.

If you want things to be more tidy and on one list, then use the Payments window, not the Write Checks window. 

There's no way to "move" one to the other, though. You would need to delete the entries in the Write Checks window and recreate them in the Payments window.

So the two checks that I wrote will stay in that window if I do nothing else. If I want those checks to show up in the vendors payment listing, I have to delete the two checks and this will erase the G/L postings. Can I recreate the same check numbers by going into the payments window?

Yes, enter the same check number and save the transaction in the Payments window instead.