Why do you see zero dollar payments on the check remittance???

Have you ever seen payments from the Select Checks and Edit Checks window that have an amount of zero? This happens because the Automatically Apply Existing Unapplied check boxes for Payments, Credit Memos and Returns are automatically marked when you open the Select Checks window.

These options will apply remaining unapplied Payments, Credit Memos, and/or Returns to open invoices for the vendor before creating the check for payment.

This is the reason why you see the REMITxxxxxx document numbers that does not come from EFT payments. The system was able to fully pay the remaining amount for the invoice or vendor by using the total unapplied amount of the Payments, Credit Memos, and/or Returns for the vendor. By default, the system will show you what has been applied to the invoice even if there were no checks created.

You cannot print a check for a non- EFT zero dollar payment.

When you print a batch of checks, remittance forms will be printed for any payments in the batch that have an amount of zero.

On the first remittance for a payment that has an amount of zero, the Check Number field is set to REMIT00000000000001. This number automatically increments for each successive remittance.

Remittances are not posted to Bank Reconciliation for the following reasons:

· Remittances for payments that have a amount of zero use distinctive check numbers. These check numbers have a prefix that differs from the prefix of check numbers for other remittances.

· Remittances for payments that have an amount of zero do not use check stubs.

Note: Unmarking the “Print Previously Applied Documents on Remittance” in the Payables Management Setup window will not prevent the zero dollar REMIT documents from being created.