Re: Dupliicate check #s

On Friday, June 23, 2023 at 12:52:11 PM UTC-5, John Pollard wrote:

> FWIW 
> 
> In my experience with two different financial institutions, the usefulness of online billpay check numbers appears to depend on the specific online biller. 
> 
> At Bank of America; when an online bill was paid by check, the check# that appeared in the Quicken transaction bore no relationship to the check# that appeared on the physical check. In my BofA statements, those online billpay checks were not included with my manual checks, but with my "Withdrawals" ... and the "check#" was not displayed. 
> [Also, those checks appear to have been written on non-Bank of America accounts - such as Wells Fargo and Northern Trust for example.] 
> 
> At USAA; when an online bill was paid by check, the check# that appeared in the Quicken transaction was exactly the same as the check# that appeared on the physical check. Those checks were written on my USAA checking account, and they appeared in the "Checks" section of my statement with the same check number that was on the actual check (and downloaded to Quicken).

I forgot to mention: USAA used online billpay check numbers starting with 95001.  Which pretty much precluded any manual check numbers from overlapping.