

To see this process in action, first verify your Closing Date.

Later in this article, we’ll describe how to manually make the reversing general journal entries when voiding a bill payment check from a closed period. QuickBooks only provides the option to automatically reverse voided checks, not bill payment checks. A bill payment check is similar to a check, but it is actually a different transaction type. If they’re other account types, you’ll have to construct reversing general journal entries on your own.

However, this option to automatically add a reversing general journal entry comes with a big stipulation: the accounts associated with the check must be expense accounts.
