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CHAPTER 7
Banking
Now we get to the part of QuickBooks that will probably already feel familiar to you: banking. You’ve probably had
a bank account for a long time, whether it’s a personal account or one for your business. Writing checks and using
your credit cards to pay for things isn’t anything new to you. But how do you track all of that in QuickBooks? That’s
what I’m going to get into in this chapter.
Writing checks and entering credit card charges
When you write a check or use your credit card, you should track those transactions in QuickBooks.
Writing a check
You can write checks in QuickBooks for a couple of reasons.
• Record a bank account withdrawal you made either by manually writing a check or through an ATM withdrawal.
• Write a check that you will print on blank checks with your printer that you'll send to vendors to pay them. You
can customize a check you're printing (such as adding a logo) on the Print window when you print the check.
To write a check:
1 Choose Banking > Write Checks.
2 To write a new check, click the "New Check..." on the left panel or click the + at the bottom of the list.
To edit a check, select a check in the list on the left panel. (If you don't see this list, click the Left
View.)
3 Enter the information for the check, and click Save.
Note: You can also write a check using the Vendor Center and Transaction Center.
What's on a check?
• Pay to the order of. Who are you paying? Choose a name from the list or type the name in directly. If the name
is not on any of your lists, QuickBooks asks you set up a record for the name. If you have a PO open for the
vendor you select, QuickBooks asks you if you want to receive the items for the open POs.
• Bank Account. The account you want to write the check from. This is most likely your checking account.
• Date. QuickBooks automatically enters today's date, but you can change it.
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