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April 28, 2022
Question

Report - Name Printed on Check

  • April 28, 2022
  • 24 replies
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Good morning! I am looking a report that provides the name that is printed on the check. Sometimes the "PRINT NAME ON CHECK AS" is different than the vendor name. I have not been able to locate a report option that provides this. Thank you in advance!

24 replies

BigRedConsulting
Level 15
April 28, 2022

The "Print name on check as" field isn't available on any report, as far as I've been able to determine.

 

What is it you're trying to get done?

April 28, 2022
I am having to create a report for the bank that shows: Check Date Check Number Payee Name - as printed on the check Check Amount Thank you!
June 4, 2024

Since this was just resurrected again.  I have no idea what RCV is doing and maybe that's a QB Online thing, but they were referencing QB Desktop, not Online.  For the current version of QB Desktop you don't have to create a Custom Field, just go to Reports - Vendors & Payables - Vendor Contact LIst -> Customize -> in the columns box type print, then below "Print on Check as" should show up.  Check it. 

Viola there's a report of vendors with that field also.  I do not know if it's available in a similar fashion in QB Online.  Once you have this, now you can do a vlookup in excel against the Print On Check As field.  If it exists, use that, if it doesn't, use the Vendor name.  Create your Positive Pay file from that.  You can look up Adevity and we could help you one on one, but as already stated, if you don't know how to do the above you may be better off just buying the previous guys program.


Thanks for your response.  I just chatted with intuit for a long time and they verified that there is no way to get a report in QB Online that includes 'Name to be printed on check'.  I set up vendor names to be easy for me to recognize when they had payee names that were not helpful.  I just need a download so I can see the ones that are different and make them match.  Otherwise I am stuck opening up each vendor to see the printed name.  

June 4, 2024

Has anyone made any progress on this in QB Online?  We just signed up for Positive Pay with our bank and keep getting exceptions because the name printed on the check does not match what is in the register.  Instead of waiting for exceptions it would be so helpful to run a report that shows Company name, Vendor display name, and Name to print on checks and find the mismatches.  Otherwise I have to edit every single customer to see if there is a mismatch.  Help!?

BigRedConsulting
Level 15
June 25, 2026

No,  QB Online has made no improvements in this area.

April 3, 2025

Has there been any improvement to the memorize reports tab. I am having the same issue where I can't change the report to show "name as in check" having over 300 employees and having to edit every positive pay is a bit time consuming. 

BigRedConsulting
Level 15
June 25, 2026

QB Online has made no improvements in this area. Generally QB Online reports are still much weaker than QB Desktop reports.

New Member
August 12, 2026

To be fair I cannot find this “column” in QB Desktop either. This seems utterly insane. How is QBs so “popular” instead of consigned to the garbage heap?