Quick Pay/Check Pay not working
I went through the steps to set up Quicken's new bill-paying service, waiting three days for micro deposit show up in my checking account to verify the account. I attempted to use Check Pay to send a local creditor a bill payment by mail. I quickly ran into trouble:
I started a new transaction (+), left the date in place, selected Check Pay, which put Mail in the Check # box, then added the payee from existing database and was told I had to verify the address. Did that. Entered category and amount and clicked Enter. I got a new little icon indicating it was sending, then a pop-up: "Wells Fargo Bank cannot deliver your payment to [Payee] by [today's date] because that date is either too early for Wells Fargo Bank or falls on a weekend or holiday." So I returned to the transaction and changed the date to one six days ahead (not a weekend or holiday) and tried again. Another pop-up: "The date of this payment cannot be changed until the payment has been processed." So now what? It won't accept the date that's there and won't let me change it. Okay, let's delete transaction and start over. Nope. "You cannot delete a processing Check Pay transaction. Please wait until the check is in transit or cancel the check first." Delete is grayed out, and I can't find anything in Quicken's online help or the community to tell me how to cancel a check. I've been a Quicken user since Quicken 3 for DOS, but my recent forced switch to Premier 2020 v 5.16.1 (Mac) dropped me into a whole new world of error messages. Spent an hour on the phone with live Tech Support (Yes, I got a live, English-speaking support rep.), but after running several routines, the tech went away for a while and came back saying there was an issue with Bill Pay (the service that's going away this summer) and that it would be fixed within 24 hours. Let's hope.
:-(
Meanwhile, I continue to live by my motto: No upgrade goes unpunished.