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I appreciate you for sharing your experience about the goal when printing your checks, Deadwood. It’s possible that the company name and the print name on check are currently set to be the same. I’d recommend verifying the information in your QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT). Let me walk you through editing your vendor details.

To begin, please follow these steps:

1. Go to the Vendors Center and locate the vendor in question.
2. Double-click on the vendor’s name to open their profile.
3. Check if the Company Name and Print name on check as fields are the same.

If you need to edit the details of your vendor, follow these steps:

1. Click on Vendors in the menu bar.
2. Select Vendor Center and locate the vendor you want to edit.
3. Double-click on the vendor’s name, then go to the Payment Settings tab.
4. Manually enter the desired name in the Print name on check as field.
5. Once you’ve made the necessary edits, click Save.

Furthermore, if you want to personalize your checks, you may visit our article. This guide provides detailed steps for modifying your checks in QBDT.

Additionally, you might find this guide helpful if you need to run sales or customer-related reports: Customize customer, job, and sales reports in QuickBooks Desktop.

Feel free to reach out if you need any more help with printing your checks. I'm here to assist you whenever you need it.

@Deadwood Al  There is one other workaround you can use, if the Print Name As function is not working.

In Desktop products, presumably including Enterprise, QB will not print anything in { } brackets, nor the { } brackets themselves.

These { } keys can be found to the upper left of the Enter key on most keyboards; they are the Shifted versions of [ ].

So, you can have, say, Jim Bob {Vendor} and Jim Bob {Customer}. This allows you to have two separate listings for the same person as a Vendor and a Customer while not printing the {Vendor} or {Customer} parts on checks and paychecks.

I can't recall how it prints it on various other detail reports, but at least on the checks and paychecks, it should be fine.

Awesome!!!   I will give this a try!  Thank you very much. I'll let you know if it works in Enterprise.

(to FishingForAnswers)      Well, I tried brackets { } and [ ] and both of them also printed in Enterprise, so it appears that it is different than in Pro or Premier Desktop ... assuming that those haven't been changed through some update.

This can't be a unique issue that affected only the two of us .... so for the rest of the users OR even for the QB Team. If a user of QuickBooks Enterprise or other  Desktop product had someone who was BOTH a customer and a vendor, how do you list them in both the customer and vendor center since QuickBooks for some reason won't let both centers have an entry with the same name? Is there some way of appending the name with something that won't actually print? Please see the message from FishingForAnswers (above) ... that solution doesn't seem to work in Enterprise. Are there other options that would work?  Or does QB simply think that we should somehow come up with a different name for the solution? (Seems like the name (as customer) should be distinguishable from name (as vendor).)