[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 252, Issue 3

[David Reiser]

Before you get tempted to pay for a stop-payment order (just to be sure…), check the terms and conditions written in your bank agreement. Many banks don’t promise to actually not pay the check. There are often weasel words about “best effort” etc. It happened to my sister. She paid for a stop-payment order. When the check arrived at the bank, they paid it. Then they hit her with an overdraft fee because the supposedly stopped payment took her balance below zero. Eventually, she got them to refund the stop-payment fee and the overdraft fee, but they told her she’d have to get the money back herself from the payee.
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Dave Reiser
dbreiser at icloud.com


> On Mar 4, 2024, at 11:25 PM, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Best wishes -- I'm still waiting for a check from 2018 to clear. I checked
> with my bank (I thought a check would not be valid after a certain time),
> and they said they'd honor it if it showed up today.  I don't want to spend
> the money to issue a stop-check order.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 11:35 AM Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for pointing that out; it helped with the outstanding $200 check
>> I had trouble getting rid of. However, since it won't extend back any
>> farther than 50 days, I think it won't be likely to help when (if?) that
>> check I wrote to the nonprofit back in December finally clears.
>> 
>> ----Eric.
>> 
>> On 3/2/2024 12:26 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 13:29:47 -0800
>>> From: john<jralls at ceridwen.us>
>>> To: "Eric H. Bowen"<eric at ehbowen.net>
>>> Cc:gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Improving GnuCash's Processing of Outstanding
>>>      Checks
>>> Message-ID:<1459E1CF-DBC7-431A-8BEB-7180011FF33D at ceridwen.us>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain;     charset=us-ascii
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 1, 2024, at 08:53, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user<
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Is it possible to extend the time for outstanding checks to show up in
>> the "manual match" window?
>>> That's controlled by the two  match day thresholds in Preferences>Import.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> -- 
> _________________________________
> Richard Losey
> rlosey at gmail.com
> Micah 6:8