From: Arnie Goetchius on
Mr.Jan wrote:
> On Jul 13, 7:21 am, Arnie Goetchius<arnie.goetch...(a)invalid.domain>
> wrote:
>> Mr.Jan wrote:
>>> On Jul 12, 9:35 pm, Arnie Goetchius<arnie.goetch...(a)domain.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>> nob...(a)nowhere.com wrote:
>>>>> On 11 Jul 2010 20:23:09 GMT, Porter Smith<my_port_2...(a)yahoo.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> nob...(a)nowhere.com wrote in news:9u7k36hfrq40gsohmlmh4bh70qduni0ei7@
>>>>>> 4ax.com:
>>
>>>>>>> Installed Quicken. It finds my accounts at zWachovia. I go to the
>>>>>>> Account List and select Activate Bill Pay for a checking account. It
>>>>>>> asks for a user name and password. No matter what I try. it fails,
>>>>>>> simply returning to the user name and password page. I called
>>>>>>> Wachovia, who told me to use my online bill pay password and they gave
>>>>>>> it to me. That doesn't work either.
>>
>>>>>>> It fails on both of my checking accounts. Any ideas on how to get this
>>>>>>> to work? Quicken says it a Wachovia problem, and (surprise) Wachovai
>>>>>>> says it's a Quicken problem.
>>
>>>>>> Do you have the right financial institution? zWachovia is the special name
>>>>>> they cooked up for old First Union accounts. Have you tried just "Wachovia
>>>>>> Bank"? (I use zWachovia for the accounts that were transferred from FU and
>>>>>> Wachovia Bank for those I opened since the merger. And pretty soon they
>>>>>> will al be Wells Fargo.
>>
>>>>> I have been using zWachovia for years with MS Money. Quicken finds my
>>>>> accounts at zWachovia. Quicken will dowload my account transactions
>>>>> from zWachovia. Quicken will transfer money between accounts at
>>>>> zWachovia. But Quicken will not set up online bill pay at zWachovia.
>>
>>>>> I'm running Money in parallel until I get Quicken sorted out and it
>>>>> still works fine.
>>
>>>> I think if you can download your account transactions, zWachovia bill
>>>> pay is already setup. In Q2010 with zWachovia, you can use Tools, Online
>>>> Payee list, New. This gets you to "Set up Online Payee". Enter the
>>>> appropriate information for the new payee. Now in the Online Payee
>>>> screen, select the new payee and click on "Use". Fill in the information
>>>> and click on "update/send". The next time you go online to download your
>>>> transactions, the check you just "wrote" will be uploaded.
>>
>>> I can download but it gives an error every time when it tries to check
>>> for payments. If I actually set up a payment, it just sits in Q
>>> desktop and the pending transaction flag is on.
>>
>> Bummer. Don't know what to tell you. I've been using it for many years
>> and never had the problem you describe. Sorry I can't help.
>
> I think I hosed it when I tried to shift to wachovia from zwachovia
> and them back. I use it so seldom, I don't really care.

I tried the same thing a while back and it wouldn't work. Fortunately, I
had a back-up and was able revert to zWachovia with no problem after I
restored the back-up file.