From a client...

Is there a way to stop the zero posting to accounts payable in the GL for every check that is written?

Steve

Steve,

How do you get zero posted to accounts payable? It should be a debit matching the credit to bank.

Perhaps they are doing nothing but Cash Invoices and consolidating the Ledger transactions?

Steve:

Why would you want to stop it, it's part of the audit trail?

Ralph:

Zero dollar cheque (check) to clean unmatched transactions in AP - Dr Bank $0 Cr Payables $0.

They migrated from Adagio Checks to Payables, and all they ever do is enter Cash Invoices into Manual Check batches.

They are not consolidating, but they do have the box "Send check instead of cash invoice" ticked, and that setting causes a consolidation of the Payables account activity so the amount being sent to Ledger is one line totalling $0.

They don't want that zero dollar transaction to post in the Ledger, a pretty reasonable request.

Steve

Should AP not generate it, GL not retrieve it, GL not post it, or GL consolidate it out of the account?

AP should not generate it. It shouldn't be in the Print/Consolidate GL Transactions report; right now it's there with a blank amount, almost like a comment.

In the meantime, you could customize the report and have it select only non-zero entries.

I could, but they don't actually print the report, they retrieve the underlying data into the Ledger. I don't see any workaround for that.

Steve

That's why I asked the question. What if Ledger discarded $0.00 transactions on retrieve?