We have made some changes to Deferred grain payments. Check our latest PTFs available, currently they are PTF 65A2831-32.
2007 Deferred Payments changes:
- The deferred payment program will NOT error if another user is in the Settlement programs or in the Customer Information Lookup program. It will only error if another user is running the deferred payment checks at the same time.
- Deferred Payments can now be paid by ACH instead of a check.
Here are the updated instructions for writing your deferred grain checks.
Deffered Payments Grain Checks (Download) 
Can I run the deferred payments early?
Yes you can. See the Printing Checks in a Previous Month section in the Print Deferred Payment Checks Tasklist in the Grain documentation for the instructions on running deferred payments early.
Be careful when entering the Effective Date when creating the ACH bank file. You do not want to get deferred payments posted to the customer’s account in the wrong year.
I can’t run the Deferred Payment checks. I get a message on the menu ‘username AT WORKSTATION workstation IS CURRENTLY PRINTING DEFERRED CHECKS.’
- This message will show when another user &/or workstation is running deferred payment checks and has not finished yet or was ended abnormally.
- Determine if that user is currently running deferred payment checks. If they are running deferred payment checks then you will need to wait until they are finished. If they are not then you can run the following command to clear the data area:
CHGDTAARA DTAARA(DEFCHECKS *ALL) VALUE(' ')
(NOTE: Only run this if you are sure no other user is running deferred payment checks or you will risk losing the deferred payments.)
- Rerun the deferred payment check option.
A customer is setup to ACH but they want a check for their deferred payments.
- Run the Select and Print Deferred Payment Checks menu option.
- Look at the report that is generated. Any customer that is set up to ACH will have a ‘Y’ in the ACH column unless there are liens.
- When the screen is displayed to verify the report, type in ‘N’ or press F3 to return to the menu.
- To change an ACH customer to print a check, use option 3 ‘Deferred Payments Maintenance’ to call up the deferred payment and change the ACH field on each of the customer’s deferred payments.
- Rerun the Select and Print Deferred Payment Checks menu option. Verify that the new report generated has the changes you made. If everything looks correct then continue on to write the checks.
When an ACH customer has a lien, they will be marked to write a check instead of an ACH payment.
- Run the Select and Print Deferred Payment Checks menu option.
- Look at the report that is generated. Any customer that is set up to ACH will have a ‘Y’ in the ACH column unless there are liens.
- When the screen is displayed to verify the report, type in ‘N’ or press F3 to return to the menu.
- NOTE: You cannot just change the ACH to ‘Y’ in option 3 ‘Deferred Payments Maintenance’. You MUST remove the lien or the select program will change the ACH code back to ‘N’.
- Remove the liens for that customer and crop. (If there is no crop code on the Deferred Liens report then the lien is for All crops.)
- Rerun the Select and Print Deferred Payment Checks menu option. Verify that the new report generated has the changes you made. If everything looks correct then continue on to write the checks.
