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description: Cheque Print Template allows defining templates for bank cheques.
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# Cheque Print Template

* Business involves making payment to various parties like suppliers and employees.
* Payment can be made in various modes like cash, NEFT or cheque.
* If you are making a payment via a cheque, you can also create a Print Format for printing Cheques from ActiveBooks based on the Payment Entry.                                    &#x20;

You can access **Cheque Print Template** via:                                                     Type 'Cheque Print Template in search bar                                             &#x20;

* Using the Cheque Print Template you can generate a new Print Format for cheques.
* It will be created based on the cheque format provided by your bank.

**1.How to Create Cheque Print Template**                                               &#x20;

1. Go to the Cheque Print Template list.&#x20;
2. Click on '+ Add Cheque Print Template'.
3. You can set the position of various items in the cheque.
4. Save.

* In the Cheque Print Template, for each value (say Payee, Date), exact coordinates are provided based on where that value should be printed on a cheque.
* Co-ordinates are provided in centimeters.

![](https://429967333-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MgEi4gT9xOnYSAL1Pei%2F-Mi5-Htw6EVyA3_u8FWj%2F-Mi55z-_TgEYDT-rX1ur%2Fcheque-1.png?alt=media\&token=898d75f8-fe03-49fb-91c8-a79661b3ae98)

#### 1.1 New Format by Scanning <a href="#id-11-new-format-by-scanning" id="id-11-new-format-by-scanning"></a>

* To speed up the creation of a new cheque printing format, you can upload a scanned image of the cheque.
* Considering the scanned image for the cheque, the system automatically updates co-ordinates for each value like party name, amount, date, the amount in words, etc.

#### 1.2 New Print Format manually                                                                         <a href="#id-12-new-print-format-manually" id="id-12-new-print-format-manually"></a>

* &#x20;If the preview looks good, click on the **Create Print Format** button to create a new Print Format for printing the cheque.
* Based on the values provided in the Cheque Print Template, the system will auto-generate an HTML script for the cheque’s Print Format.
*   You can manually provide the co-ordinate for each value based on where you want it to be printed on the cheque and customize with HTML/CSS.



**Preview**                                                                                                        Based on coordinates provided for all the values, a preview will be shown as to how the values will be printed on the cheque.

![](https://429967333-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MgEi4gT9xOnYSAL1Pei%2F-Mi6IiqgqBgalF8ctdTm%2F-Mi6JJZuXC7wrcaIv0oS%2FCheque%20Print%20Preview.png?alt=media\&token=6cf5ae13-231d-47a1-9ac4-5a2331e77127)

#### 1.3 Printing Cheques[ ](https://docs.erpnext.com/docs/v13/user/manual/en/setting-up/print/cheque-print-template#13-printing-cheques) <a href="#id-13-printing-cheques" id="id-13-printing-cheques"></a>

* New print format generated for the cheque will be visible in the Payment Entry form.
* After creating the payment entry, you will be able to print transaction details on the cheque.

![](https://429967333-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MgEi4gT9xOnYSAL1Pei%2F-Mi6IiqgqBgalF8ctdTm%2F-Mi6OQzXn1IxSDba4blu%2Fchq.png?alt=media\&token=e46b1127-8437-4d9e-a62f-d567b400fa0a)











