If you’re like most people, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of a cheque book not working – annoying as hell! As the person writing the cheque, you might expect that the account would be displayed when the book was first opened. But now, after you’ve written the check and closed the book, the account might be unreachable! Frustrating, to say the least. In this situation, what can you do? Is there a fix?
Here’s where the pain usually originates from: when you select the Write Check option in QuickBooks Online’s Bill/Payment Menu, the form looks great. But if you click the Validate Paycheck button, the screen turns white, and nothing seems to happen.
While the solution isn’t completely clear yet, it seems that the best way to avoid this issue is to make sure that your QuickBooks database is always accessible online. The way this works is by making sure that your Intuit account is always connected to the internet. Even better, make sure that you have a strong wireless connection so that you don’t have to be tethered to an internet café or a public Wi-Fi hotspot. This should help avoid cases where the account is suddenly unreachable because you don’t have an internet connection at the time that you need to use it. For the best result, try and avoid using public Wi-Fi whenever possible.
Let’s look at this issue in a little bit more detail. When you open the cheque book and begin entering your checks, it will ask you if you’ve connected to the internet yet. If you click the No option, the page turns white and nothing seems to happen. But if you choose Yes, you’ll see an error message that the account can’t be found online. This happens because Intuit has determined (correctly) that you need to be connected to the internet to use the software.
So if you need to be connected to the internet to use QuickBooks Online, why is it that you can’t be located online when you’re using it? The answer to this is that the database of payments and bills is not stored in a place where it can be accessed online. Instead, it’s stored on your hard drive, which means that it can’t be accessed unless you have an internet connection. When you close the book, Intuit clears the cache on your hard drive, which makes the data inaccessible. But since you still have an internet connection, the software can access the data once you open the book again.
The solution to this problem is to back up your QuickBooks data to the cloud at least once a week. This way, even if your cache is cleared, the data will still be accessible online because it’s stored in the cloud. If you don’t have a weekly backup (saving them to the cloud is the simplest and most convenient way to create one), then you should at least do it once a month. This ensures that you can always get up and running quickly if you need to, even if you’ve temporarily lost access to your database because of an internet outage or a major system malfunction (like a hard drive crash).
If you want to avoid all of this hassle, then make sure that you back up your QuickBooks data to the cloud at least once a week. This will ensure that even if you lose access to your local hard drive for any reason, you’ll still be able to access your data. And if you want to be extra safe, then you can also create a Time Machine backup in case something happens to the main hard drive that contains your data. You can use this drive to restore your computer or mobile device to its previous state. This might come in handy if you wipe out your data due to a system error or malfunction.
In this article, we’ve discussed why you might experience problems when writing checks in QuickBooks Online. We’ve also outlined several ways in which this issue can be easily avoided. Having a backup copy of your data stored in the cloud is highly recommended because it ensures that you can always get up and running again if you have to (and it’s the simplest and most convenient way to ensure this). Using the cloud for storing your data is also a good idea because it makes it accessible from any internet-connected device.