Checklist: Processing Printed Check Vendor Payments

Review the overall process for generating printed checks to pay vendors for accounts payable vouchers.

The following table outlines the steps to complete on the Vendor Payments form when you pay vendors via printed checks.

Before you complete these steps, you may want to review the Voucher Schedule report in My Stuff > Reporting.

Step	Description	Related Help Topics
1.	On the New Payment Run page: Enter the information to create a new payment run, such as payment date, payment type (check/EFT), manual or automatic voucher selection, and payment sorting order. Click Create New Run to save the run and open the Select Vouchers page.	Create a Vendor Payment Run for Printed Checks Processing Only Checks or Only EFTs in the Payment Run Paying EFT Vendors by Check New Payment Run Page in Vendor Payments
2.	On the Select Vouchers page: Select and review AP vouchers to pay for a vendor. Review the Bank Requirements and/or Cash Requirements report for the payment run. When you are satisfied with the voucher selections and are ready to pay them, click Process Payments. This saves the selection of vouchers to pay and opens the Printing and Numbering page.	Select the Vouchers Manually for the Printed Check Vendor Payment Run Review the Vouchers Automatically Selected to Pay by Printed Checks Review Cash Requirements for a Vendor Payment Run Select Vouchers Page of the Vendor Payments Form
3.	On the Printing and Numbering page: Complete the following as needed for each bank that has payments in the payment run: Print the payments on check stock. Assign numbers to the payments. When auto numbering is not turned on, you assign a starting number for each bank's payments in a vendor payment run. Print file copies of all the payments. These are copies of all the payments (one payment per page) that have the word "Copy" at the top of the payment. Print and/or email remittance advices for the payments. A remittance advice identifies the invoices that were paid for each vendor's payment and the vendor's bank information for electronic payments. Click Post Payments to post the payments to your general ledger. After you post, you cannot reprint checks.	Process the Vendor Payment Run for Printed Checks Printing Checks for Vendor Payments Assigning Numbers to Vendor Payments Remittance Advices for Vendor Payments Post the Printed Checks Vendor Payment Run Effects of Posting Vendor Payments Printing and Numbering Page of the Vendor Payments Form
5.	View, print, or email the vendor payment posting log in Transaction Center > Posting Review. The log type is Vendor Payments.	View, Print, or Email a Vendor Payments Posting Log