Bill Pay Scheduling Date Problems & Suggestion
I have posted about this before. My bank's OFX processor/provider (FISERV) will often change a scheduled due date to what it's system thinks is the correct due date. Nothing MD can do about this. However, MD could make it easier to watch out for, and record, this kind of thing by making the date a bill is entered in the MD account used to make the payment's register the date that you enter the payment in the MD Bill Pay window. Currently, the register of the account used to make the payment shows the date that the payment should be issued/withdrawn from account rather than the entered date - until you merge the "cleared" payment of course at which time it shows the "cleared" date. Please either change the pre-merged date to the scheduled payment entry date or add a user selector to do the job for those who may want to keep the current date shown as is.
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Maddy on 09 Jul, 2025 10:51 AM
Hi,
Thank you for contacting Moneydance support.
Can you navigate to Moneydance > Preferences > Network and check if the Observe Online Payment Date Restrictions is selected, please?
When enabled, Moneydance will automatically adjust the scheduled payment date by adding the number of days your bank requires to process the transaction. If you try to schedule a payment before the earliest date your bank allows, Moneydance will alert you with an error message.
For more details please refer to this article of the Knowledge Base:
Additionally, you may want to 'right click' (or press Ctrl and click) on any transaction to view the context menu then choose Choose Sort By > Date Entered. Close and restart Moneydance to retain the change.
Finally, you can refer to this article of the Knowledge Base
I hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if you have further questions or need more assistance.
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Maddy, Infinite Kind Support
2 Posted by avp2 on 09 Jul, 2025 02:27 PM
Thanks Maddy. The Date Restrictions checkbox was indeed checked. I unchecked it and hopefully that will make future transaction dates in Bill Pay show an entered date until merged. It has been awhile since I looked in preferences for more than the Summary page setup.
3 Posted by avp2 on 09 Jul, 2025 03:26 PM
Did a test payment after unchecking the DR box and restarting the program. What happened is the payment initially shows its due date less 5 working days in the register, but I can change it to the entry date and it stays. This is Ok, but I was hoping MD could add a feature so the entry date would be what is shown in the register automatically.
BTW, I noticed that having the entry date as "current" date, causes the payment to not be included in the "future transaction" shading. I think a Bill Pay transaction should show as future until it gets to its bill pay "processed" or send-on date.
4 Posted by avp2 on 23 Jul, 2025 08:00 PM
Update: would like to suggest that MD also change the wording of the "Date" collumn in the Bill Pay pop-up window to "Due Date" - this is assuming that is what the "Date" always is, as it is in the one account I use for bill paying, of course.
System closed this discussion on 22 Oct, 2025 08:10 PM.