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Enter payroll checks

Check layout in use or associated with checks

You may receive a message when you try to delete a custom check layout or edit a payroll check layout in the Layout editor.

Delete a check layout

CheckLayoutName is in use for reprintable checks and cannot be deleted.
Because payroll checks can be reprinted up to 3 months after the original payroll check date, you'll need wait 3 months or more after the original payroll check date to delete a check layout associated with a printed payroll check.

Change a check layout

CheckLayoutName is associated with checks that are available for reprinting. Changes will prevent reprinting of checks that used this layout. Do you want to save the changes?
  • No
    : If you don't want to prevent checks from being reprinted, select
    No
     and don’t save your changes.
    As an alternate method, select
    File
    ,
    Save as
     to save the layout under a different name, make your edits to the new check layout, then update the new layout in the
    Layout
     tab of the
    Setup
    , then
    Bank Accounts
     screen.
  • Yes
    : The changes are saved to the layout. When you try to reprint a payroll check that used the original version of your check layout, you'll receive the following message with a list of checks that can't be reprinted: 
    The following checks could not be reprinted due to the check layout being changed after the original checks printed
    You won’t be able to reprint the check.

This article applies to:

  • Product: Accounting CS
  • Subject: Payroll checks

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