1) Import/Export is the manual way to merge - especially since the "merge
duplicate accounts" listing does not show my Checking nor the newly created
payment account.

2) Since my monthly bills are not always the same amount, I wouldn't be able
to completely automate the process? Wouldn't I have to make payments from the
payment account, and then update the auto-transfer amount for the amount of
the bills being paid? Am I still missing something? Seems to be "double"
work. If I wanted to do double work, I'd use my own banks free online banking
even though they are not an integrated banking system with ms money. The
simplicity prior to the upgrade was why I was willing to pay for msn bill
pay. If this is the "new way" of using their service after the upgrade, I'll
probably cancel the subscription and use my bank's free version instead.

"JB" wrote:

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"John Wright" wrote:

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Is the export/import routine your manual merge? If so, have you tried
merging the accounts from Account List/Other tasks (left pane)/Merge
duplicate accounts?

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Paying from the payment account and balancing through transfer from checking
is a workable solution. Just setup the transfer to automatically enter in
register to save steps.

Keeping the payment account and checking separate can also help if, in the
future, your bank does offer their own bill pay. You'd have the choice of
paying electronically from the payment account or checking.

Regards,
JB

After the Bill Pay Upgrade, when I sync'd, the account which WAS associated
to MSN Bill Pay PRIOR to the upgrade is NO LONGER my payment account. My
checking account bank does not offer online services, so shouldn't I still be
able to associate the same account to my bill pay service after the upgrade?
I've tried to "manually merge" my checking with the newly created payment
account, but receive an error that the file is "corrupt" upon trying to
import the file I exported for the checking account. Will I really need 2
accounts to make this work? I've seen some "xfer from checking to your
payment account" solutions, but doesn't that mean I would have to have the
payment account in my "bills" section of Money and then "manually" transfer
money from checking to the payment account to balance. Doesn't sound too
automated - unless I'm missing something.......