Mark
Thu Feb 16 10:35:10 CST 2006
A little clarification about the merge accounts feature:
Actually, the merge will only work between an online and and offline
account.
An MSN Bill Pay account is considered "offline" since it is not doing
statement import.
So, it could be merged with an online enabled account but not with a manual
only (offline) account. (You would need to do a QIF export of the manual
account and import it into the MSN Bill Pay account).
Also reference
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889926/en-us
and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/76976/en-us (if the account to merge was
an "offline" account)
-Mark
"Chris Cowles" <spam_magnet@remove-me-bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:OOdvtppMGHA.4052@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> "Bryce Fischer" <Bryce Fischer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3A6482D2-AB1B-4671-BE1D-823082C4A8CF@microsoft.com...
> > My bank provides bill pay, but I do not want to use it. Instead, I
prefer
> > to
> > use MSN Bill Pay. I cannot figure out how to either disable my bank's
bill
> > pay service, or specify I want to use MSN bill pay.
>
> You disable online bill pay by using Manage Online Services. But that only
> disables it within Money, not at the bank. So, if there are fees involved,
> you want to disable it through your bank, as well.
>
> If you have not yet initiated use of MSN Bill Pay within Money, you can't,
> anyway. MSN and their provider, Checkfree, recently made some
configuration
> changes that are incompatible with using MSN Billpay _within_ Money.
> Previous users are grandfathered in. New accounts can use only web access
> until the next version of Money.
>
> Even when MSN Billpay IS working, the design lately has required that it
> creates a separate account in Money. That account can then be MERGED to
your
> current checking account (or vice versa?) but only if you have NO online
> banking on that account. So, if you want to download non-billpay
> transactions from your bank, you can't do that AND enter MSN Billpay bills
> directly into it.
>
> It's not pretty.
> --
> Chris Cowles
> Gainesville, FL
>
>
>