Hi 2Jenn,

Thank you very much for your suggestion.

To the best of my knowledge, this is my understanding.

I know there is situation that customers will issue post-dated cheques.  For example, a tenant might issue 12 monthly rent cheques to the landlord.  My experience is that the customer will issue all cheques by 1/1 is pretty rare.  Usually, the customer will use the first date of each month as the date on each cheque.

If your customers will issue a numerous post-dated cheques by 1/1 and you post them all to Cash to be Deposited account in 1/1, it may be a hard time for you to track them when doing the deposit by the end of the year. 

The suggestion I can come up with is to do a general ledger report in a monthly basis so you will know which cheques are still sitting in the Cash to be deposited account. 

Again, please go to Ideascale (http://sage50canadian.ideascale.com/) to submit your idea.

Thanks.

Keith, I'm not sure I understand your answer, especially considering that any cheques still 'sitting in the Cash to be Deposited' would also be sitting in a drawer or hopefully a safe.

From the perspective of an accountant compiling a file, that answer is good.  From a business / operations point of view, forgetting to deposit customer cheques is an epic fail.

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I think the designer's idea was that one would use the last deposit date as the 'on or after' date.

If you're back-dating customer cheques to the face date, instead of using the received (using) date, then this would be more of a problem.  

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That being said, I can't see why it couldn't have a start and end range, with the start defaulting to the last deposit date, and the end being today.   And if one were to change the Start range to the beginning of time, it would stay there.

I don't work at or for Sage.   If you're looking for something no designer has ever used, the first cousin of the Deposit slip is the Bank Reconciliation.  

Not sure why anyone who had ever done a reconciliation would think that it's best to scramble the deposit amounts when sorting the withdrawals column.   I haven't even seen that in freeware.

Thanks, Randy.  

Keith L., thanks for your reply.  I don't know if you work for Sage, but if you do Heads UP!  I submitted that idea to Ideascale months ago.  Along with some others.  Then realized Ideascale is just a place for us to rant and nobody is paying the slightest attention to fixing any of these things.  So, I thought I'd try here because it is truly inexplicable to me not to have the choice, and it bugs me.  I'm holding out faint hope that this might have better results than Ideascale, but not betting on it.