it's this simple: the money grubbing assholes at Intuit forced the change so that they could push their bill payment services. QBO gets worse and worse every single day. ZERO communication with real users nor frankly do they seem to care. It's a "my way or the highway" approach. Can't wait till there' even a SEMI decent competitor. Everyone will bail out on this horrible software.

Yes If I try to use my old template for invoicing (custom) it magically inserted "PMT TYPE  CHECK" onto the PDF form. it's nowhere in the template, but it shows up in what I want to print (and what my long-term customers expect to see).