Some of our vendors are paid by pre-authorized debit whereby they automatically pull the funds from our bank account. The invoices are recorded in AP so we need to be able to record the payments through AP even though we are not actually issuing cheques. How would we do this? We have tried recording the payments by way of a Manual Cheque entry in AP but this forces a cheque number and also requires that we print an actual cheque (which we could just print to blank paper). Is there a way to record the payment without the system recording/printing a cheque? The Bank Rec module is not used in this case.

Thank you,
Tanja

Turn off the option on the manual cheque screen to print the cheque (it's a check box). Then you'll be able to record a number that makes sense to you as the cheque number. You can also change the setting of this option under Edit | Banks if this is your normal usage of the manual cheque entry.