[moneydance] payments not happening -- partial answer

[Jack Frillman]

William Morton wrote:

>On 17, May 2006, , at 8:05, Wayne M Barnes wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Dear Moneydance,
>>
>>    I called US Bank about the missing payments, and tried it while
>>the agent was watching her screen.
>>
>>    It turns out I was requesting a non-work day for the payments.  
>>As I
>>tried a Sunday or Memorial Day, there was no "Will Process", and no  
>>error
>>message, and nothing showed on her screen, but Moneydance dutifully
>>entered payments into my register.  When I tried Tuesday, it all  
>>worked
>>properly (so far).
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Seeing all these recent messages about missing electronic payments has
>butressed my originally strong feeling that the LAST thing I want is  
>a computer
>program automatically paying bills from my checking account.    The  
>amount of
>time required to pay bills using Moneydance, or Quicken, or anything  
>else, is so
>small, and all of the programs now out will print checks quickly, so  
>the possible
>advantage becomes so tiny that I can't imagine putting up with the  
>potential
>disasters.  I believe that entrusting the ability to debit my  
>checking account
>to some program is utterly unreasonable.  Maybe I'm a Luddite, but there
>it is!
>
>Bill
>  
>

For what it's worth I agree. I just don't see where the advantage is.  
Maybe it's the control freak in me.