Business Banking - Paying in cheques

[dabeeeenster]

Does anyone know of a business account that provides details of cheques being paid in, specifically the cheque number or the person paying the cheque, on the bank statement?

My business is with Abbey at the moment; when paying in 2 cheques for the same amount from different clients (Which occurs quite often) it is impossible for the book keepers to track which invoices have been paid, and from whom, which is a crazy state of affairs!

[dabeeeenster]

Yeah, we do that already, but if we pay in 2 cheques for the same amount on the same day or a day apart, it's impossible to tell...

[dabeeeenster]

Maybe I'm not making myself clear. I want a bank that shows me, on my statement, the cheque number or paying in slip number when I pay cheques in. So I can tell which cheques have cleared...

[dabeeeenster]

That's the problem - the only thing I see on my statements is "Bank Counter Credit" and the amount...I want a bank that shows some identifying number.

[dabeeeenster]

We do pretty much what has been advised. The problem is where we have a fairly large number of cheques of the same amount that are paid in over a short period. If there is a query as to the payment/clearing of one of these cheques it can be a real pain to trace back. Just curious if other banks provide the cheque number or similar.

I guess BACS/Standing order or Direct debit is the way forward.

Thanks for the replies.

[dabeeeenster]

Ha! Yeah we've thought about doing that. Hence the reason for my original post.

I hate cheques, but some of our clients like them...

[dabeeeenster]

It seems a bit crazy to me that, in the 21st Century, this information is not available. The banks have to draw funds from the company that provided the cheque, so it's not as if they don't have that information available at the time. They also have the cheque number and the paying in book stub number.

Companies operated without email just fine, but that's not a reason to not use email, is it?

[dabeeeenster]

I'm not asking them to do my book-keeping for me! I just want to know who paid a cheque in, that's all! I appreciate that, yes, it can be done without the cheque information, it's just that it would make our life easier if we had that information.

I've no interest in book keeping. It doesn't excite me, and anything that I can do to make it not as time consuming as it has been in the past I will do. That's all.

I'm not asking for a Abbey to smelt me gold from my recycled paper. As far as I'm concerned it's laziness on their part.