I have a "residual payment" application I've developed in PERL that I'd like to upgrade. Presently the application queries current transactions, figures out who is owed what and generates an Adobe PDF that I print onto check stock. ....voila - poor mans check printing program!

The "inconvenience" with this approach is that I need to key my checks into Quicken once they've been printed.

It would be much more convenient to generate some type of file to import into Quicken and let it print the checks. To that end, I've begun looking into Finance::QIF package. At first glance it looks promising. It appears that I can create an entry for a transaction that's already occured. (might be useful) What I'd really like to do is create a transaction that needs to completed. If your familiar with Quicken you've no doubt used the "Write Checks" feature. My ideal solution would involve "seeding" that "write checks" dialog box with transactions checks to be printed.

Anyone care to share advice, discuss approaches, etc?

In reply to Quicken Integration by heathen

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