Prevent Problems With Your Check Payments
When paying your bill with a check, it is very important that you print the amount as clearly as possible. The numeric amount is read by our processing equipment and is used to ensure prompt handling of your payment. The example below represents the proper format for the numeric amount on your check.
Proper format for the amount
Common Mistakes
Some methods normally considered acceptable can often be confusing to our processing equipment.
Please take a moment to review these examples of checks that could be difficult for our equipment to process.
Use of ‘X's rather than zeros
No decimal and cents provided
Use of dollar signs
Slashes through numbers
Use of fractions for the cents portion