Quicken 2008 why must it download transactions for matching when using Billpay (Bill pay)

Posted by pattyjamas on March 3, 2008, 10:03 pm

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I use Quicken Bill Pay through the Quicken Program. I used to use
Quicken 2005 but was forced to upgrade by Intuit to 2008.

I pay bills through Quicken Bill Pay and NEVER have set up logging
into my own bank to download transactions.

All was well after the upgrade for the first month.

Then all of a sudden things went a bit crazy or lets say not the way I
like them.

If I make an ONLINE payment to a vendor in Quicken 2008 it normally
appears in the check register within the program. Fine. I send the
transaction to Quicken Bill Pay via the One Step Update.

Fine and dandy. However, a few days later when I launch Quicken 2008
and do a One Step Update, it will connect to Quicken Bill Pay and
download transactions for me to MATCH to existing transactions in the
Register.

***I DO NOT want any transactions downloaded. I do not want to perform
any matching at all. It would be normal to download transactions if I
made them via the Quicken Web. But it is downloading any ONLINE
payment I send via the Quicken program.

Okay, so if I sent 4 online payments, then a few days later when I do
a One Step Update, it will download the 4 transactions for matching
purposes.
If I select ACCEPT ALL, then things go nutso and I will have duplicate
(I assume unmatched) transactions in my register which throws off the
balance.

****How can I stop the insanity of downloading transactions from Bill
Pay for matching? Did not do this in version 2005.

****At one time time it downloaded 300+ transactions for me to review
and match. I did not even make 300 online payments in the last couple
days. Is this something new? Did I enable something I should not
have?

Tech support did not help and would not escalate my call.

(Validate and Super Validate did not help. Creating an entirely new
file for Quicken and importing qif data did not help eliminate this
matching issue for me either)

Thanks so much
Patty