What check number do I use for an ACH or EFT payment?

Since a payment number is required, most people who are recording a single payment will use the voucher number for the check number.
If people are processing a batch of payments at once using the print check routine, they frequently will carve out a series of numbers either below the current check series or in the distant future.  

When printing checks, the proposed check number for that asset account doesn't have to be used.  You can type in a different number than what will flow in when a choice is made in the drop-down.  It must be a number.  No letters are allowed.

FIMS can handle multiple check with the same number.  However, using the same number over and over makes finding checks difficult, so we advise using a different sequence.

Notes on printing checks with the same number:

• Individual checks: You can run each check individually and choose the same number each time
• Batches: When running a batch of checks, FIMS will automatically autoincrement by one from whatever you choose as the starting check number, thus each check in the batch will have a different number. 
• Options: What you can do is after you have posted everything, you can go to File Maintenance>Check Renumbering Utility and then individually change the check number from whatever it was when you posted to for example the first check in the batch which can be the same number, but you have to do that one at a time for each check.

See the following on printing checks:

Print Checks 

See the following on re-numbering checks:

Renumbering Checks 

If it is necessary to record the actual wire number on the payment record, after posting the payment you can find the ACH or EFT on the payment tab and open it up and type in an alphanumeric number into the Add'l Payment # field.