Creating Your First Cheque Book

If you have done with the installation, now your are ready to create a first cheque book.

Click at 'New Cheque Book' button. The 'Cheque Book Settings' dialog box will pop up and over here you need to enter the account information, such as bank name, account number, and bank

branch. If you would like to keep track of account balance please tick on Track Account Balance check box.

On to the company information tab, you need to enter the account holder information such as company name, address, contact numbers, email and web page address.

Now click on Setting tab. You can't add signatory user id yet, this can be edited once the account has been created. There is only one date format for now since this software is intended for Malaysian cheque format which has been standardize by Bank Negara. For other country, date format can be set through SoftNet Simple Template Editor program. Other parameters in this tab sheet, such as printer, font settings, and language can be selected based on your own preference.

On the Offset Tab Sheet, you can adjust the printing position of pay to, date, amount in numeric, and amount in words for line one and two. You can key in at the edit boxes or just click on the intended text box and drag to position that best suite to your cheque. To make it easier for you to adjust the positions, tick on Background Visible check box. An image of a cheque will be displayed at the background. The width of pay to, amount in numeric and amount in words for line one and two can also be changed.

Now click on the Layout and Orientation Tab Sheet. Over here you can choose how to place cheque at the paper tray of your printer whether it's vertical or horizontal positioning.

The default values for most parameters are suited for Bank Negara complied cheque book. So if you happy with the values you can click on button ok. You can come back later to adjust these values anyway.

Now a cheque book is created. Please select from combo box the just created cheque book for you to start printing your first cheque. Once that's done, please set the next cheque book number to match your physical next cheque book number. This number will increase automatically once you generate your cheque.