Re: Dupliicate check #s

John Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:

} On Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 11:42:04?AM UTC-5, Bernie Cosell wrote:
} > r49.29 -- I use online billpay a lot and a funny thing happened: after it 
} > made it to 9999 it seems to have wrapped to 5000 and is now colliding 
} > with my *actual* checks that began at 5000. 
} 
} Doesn't sound like "wrapping" to me: 
} I would have expected the next check# 
} after 9999 to be 1, if the numbers were "wrapping". 
} Otherwise I would have expected the next check# to be 10,000.

What I've learned is that this isn't a quicken matter, but a *bank* matter.
Apparently with online billpay the *bank* issues the check number and my
@#$%@#$ bank started numbering at 9000 and when it got to 9999 they then
jumped to 5000, which is where my paper checks are.

I just called my bank and got the online-quicken check # reset to 1000.
I'll find out in a while if that worked, but that should give me a long
time before there's trouble.

[NB if there *is* trouble, it'd mean that I've done 5000 [9000-9999] and
1000-4999]  but now that I understand the problem I can intercede in time
and get my bank to restart at 6000 -- that'll leave me with room for 1000
handwritten checks and I do about 3/yr so I think that'll last me :o)]

What I actually did was pay the few bills I had with paper checks and so
I'll get no more "collisions" and I hope that it'll all quiet down.

  /Bernie\
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