Hi there, tmarie2.
Welcome to the QuickBooks Community. Let me discuss the difference between employees and vendors and how it works in QuickBooks. Then, make sure you'll be able to verify to whom you should give when creating a regular check that you've shared.
An employee is someone that another person or company hires to perform a service or a person that works for you. While vendors are people or companies to that you owe money as they have made the products or offered services for you.
The steps you've mentioned about creating a regular check are for employees. Those are the instructions on how you can pay the employee if they didn't receive a direct deposit on time that was created in QuickBooks Desktop Payroll.
On the other hand, if you want to manage a direct deposit with a vendor to fix a contractor payment, you can void paper or direct deposit payments. Please follow the steps below.
- Select the Vendor menu and choose Vendor Center.
- From the Vendors tab, select the vendor name.
- From the Transactions tab, double-click the check you want to void.
- Right-click the check image and select Void. After your void the paycheck, a notation is included in the Memo field, and the net amount of the check is 0.00.
To see further details, you can open this article: Void or cancel contractor payments.
Lastly, you may refer to this article to see various details on how you can resolve any issues with direct deposit in QuickBooks: Fix direct deposit issues.
Please don't hesitate to click the Reply button below if you have any related concerns with direct deposit. I'm always here to help, tmarie2. Have a great day!
