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Keep the cheque register, from the drawer to the bank

A cheque is not money yet, and the register is what keeps track of how far along it is. Every cheque you are holding and every one you have written, ordered by the date it matures — not the date it arrived.

You need

• accounting.cheques.read
• accounting.cheques.register
• accounting.cheques.settle

Steps

1. Open Cheques. It opens on Coming due, ordered by when each one matures rather than when it arrived.
2. Press Record a cheque. Say the Received or written — Received or Written — the Cheque number, the Bank, the Amount and the Customer or supplier.
3. Set Matures carefully. The date written on the cheque, which is when it can be banked — not the day it reached you.
4. For one you wrote, name the Drawn on now — the account it is drawn on is known when the cheque is written, and deciding it later lets the money leave an account the cheque was never drawn on.
5. As each one moves, open it and press Record what happened, choosing the What happened to it that happened. The Where it is then reads With the bank, Cleared, Bounced or whichever it now is.
6. To bank several at once, select them and press Bank these cheques: one One paying-in slip, with the Into which account and the Date on the slip.

Cheques that have cleared, bounced or been cancelled are finished and leave this list. No cheque is waiting to be banked, cleared or paid. Cheques that have already cleared, bounced or been cancelled are finished and are not listed here.

Related

• Record money a customer has paid you
• Record a payment you have made to a supplier
• See what has moved through the accounts you hold money in