Paycheck Deposit into Primary Account Becomes Debit Equal To Deposit into Secondary Account

Steven Gelfond

Quicken Classic for Windows. Version R60.15 Build 27.60.15

Scheduled Paycheck has 2 Deposit Accounts. The amount deposited in the non-Primary account is correct. The Primary Account automatically is setup to get the remainder. Instead, the Primary Account Register has a DEBIT for the amount deposited in the non-Primary Account. This has persisted for a few months (and SW updates)😯

Example Setup In Paycheck
Paycheck: $2500
non-Primary: $500
Primary: Remainder, in this case $2000 (variable monthly deductions)

Result in the registers:
non-Primary account: $500 deposit
Primary account: $500 DEBIT!!!

This happens whether or not the scheduled Paycheck is entered from the Primary Account or the non-Primary Account.

The solution is to go into the Primary Account, Edit Current Paycheck and choose Enter. It then changes the Debit of $500 to a deposit of the remaining funds from the Paycheck, in this case $2000.

NotACPA

In your primary account, what shows in the Category field in the register?

Is the transactions split? If so, open the splits and see what's shown for the category in every line of the split … because it sounds like there's a transfer there to the 2nd account.