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Why has Default Changed from "Charge" to "Payment" on Credit Card Registry Entries?

BevB

With the latest release of Quicken R66.18, I noticed that when I go to make an entry on any of my credit card registries it now defaults to payment. Before it defaulted to charge. The latter makes more sense because I only enter a payment entry once a month but I have charge entries all month long. It's annoying having to now change the status every time I make an entry, especially when I forget and have to go in and correct it…because it won't let me just change the entry in the charge or payment columns. I have to go in and manually change every line entry for each category that I bought merchandise in. Why oh why did this default to "payment" instead of charge and is there any way I can change it back to defaulting entries as charges? Thanks!

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NotACPA

How are you recording those charges. Because just minutes ago I recorded to card txn, directly into the register, and after inputting the payee and a memo, I tabbed across to the charge column and input the amount.

SO, I'm not seeing what you're reporting.

JND

Hey BevB,

You are not the only one who has this problem.

I'm glad you posted this, because I thought I must have done something,

The same problem has been happening to me the last two days.

I enter a transaction, hit the OK button, and the popup dialogue that asks "Charge or Payment?" has defaulted to Payment. For years the default has been Charge.

Does anyone know where the setting is to fix this?

Thanks for the help everyone!

JND

I should have mentioned that this has been happening on Split Transactions. I track sales tax, so almost every transaction I enter is a split transaction.

Chris_QPW

I don't know why the default changed, but the reason Quicken is asking in the first place is because while entering the main transaction you didn't tell it if it was a charge or a payment.

If you enter the total charge or payment in the main transaction in the register and then split it, Quicken won't even prompt you because it will already know if it should be recorded as a charge or a payment.

Knowledgeable10*

OK that works. Thanks

bojiro

That does not correct the change in default from charge to payment. I don't want the added step of entering a total before the split entries. As stated previously, the change in default is irrational.

NotACPA

I always input the total prior to doing the split.

SO, as an experiment, I input a payee and split the transactions before inputting the total.

I found that if I input the amount of the split lines as positive numbers, then "Payment" was the default.

BUT, if I input the amount of the split lines as negative numbers, then "Charge" was the default.

Which makes sense to me. A positive amount reduces the debt in the account, as does a payment, while a negative number increases the debt.

Also, by pre-inputting the total before splitting, the amount of Sales Tax (which I track also) is pre-calculated by Q after I've already input the amount(s) for things I bought … Sales Tax is always the last input by me.