Can an Electronic Payment be processed without actually sending an ACH file?

I have multiple companies with multiple bank accounts for each company.   We have several of the companies pay the main company for overhead on a regular weekly schedule and we have the payments set up as an auto transfer with the bank.

1.  Is it possible to do a Transaction JE bank transfer between companies?

2. Is it possible to set up recurring Transaction JE's like you can with recurring General JE's or Repetitive Invoices? 

3. Can I do an Electronic Payment that will not actually send a file to the bank?(since the transfer is already set up with the bank)  I have tried setting everything up and get to the point where you do Check Printing and it says I have not had a Pre-Note approval, even though I set up the Vendor (on of my other companies) as a Pre-Note approved vendor.   

Up to this point I have been booking the regular weekly bank transfers as Wire transfer through Manual Checks, but this just seems like a cumbersome way to do it.

Please, any advise on how to do this more efficiently would be great.