This is pretty awful actually. We pay artists for each piece of art we sell and cannot send them 20 checks per month. I work remote so we were trying to avoid someone at the business filling up the paper tray with checks every time I need to print checks.
Also the bank we us US Bank has known long-term issues working with QBO so we don't have the option to use the other online bill payment method. Each time I run into a QBO issue, QB Desktop continues to feel more advanced than Online.
Thanks for posting this question though; I'm glad I found it, and the non-solution, quickly.