Cheque Printing for Odoo 19 documentation

A guide to cheque printing: layouts, cheque books, printing from payments, the amount in words, the register, reprint and void.

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In plain words: The payment is in Odoo, then somebody writes the cheque by hand, or types it in Word, and the number in the cheque book is noted nowhere. Cheque Printing prints the cheque from the payment, on your pre-printed stock: the payee, the date, the amount in figures and in words (English or Arabic) and the number taken from your cheque book. A register keeps track of every cheque.

The cheque register, a test print with its outline and a payment with its cheque.

Tip: Print a test cheque on plain paper first, hold it against a real cheque and adjust the positions in millimetres.

What you get

Feature	What it does
Cheque books	A book for each bank journal with its first and last number. The numbers are given one after the other; the book is closed when it is used up and the next book takes over.
Print	Print cheque on a payment to a vendor, or select many payments and print them all.
Amount in words	In English or Arabic, or in the language of the payee. Cents as 50/100 or in words.
Layouts	One layout for each bank: the position of the date, the payee, the amount in words and in figures and the memo, the font size, the date format, “account payee only” crossing and stars around the amount.
Test print	A sample cheque with the outline and the names of the fields to align the printout.
Post-dated cheques	A date on the cheque apart from the date of the payment.
Reprint and void	Printing again keeps the number and is logged. Voiding a spoiled cheque keeps a trace and the number is not used again.
Register	All the cheques with number, payee, amount, date and how many times they were printed.
Arabic	Everything is translated and works right to left.

Requirements

Item	Details
Odoo	19.0 (Community or Enterprise)
Apps needed	Invoicing (`account`) and `wkhtmltopdf` for the PDF, as for any Odoo report
License	OPL-1 (Odoo Proprietary License v1.0)

Install

Unzip the package. Inside is taqnix_cheque_printing.zip; unzip it to get the folder taqnix_cheque_printing.
Copy the folder into one of the addons_path folders of your Odoo server and restart Odoo.
Log in as an administrator, activate Developer mode, open Apps and press Update Apps List.
Remove the “Apps” filter, search Cheque Printing and press Install.

# or from the command line
./odoo-bin -c odoo.conf -d YOUR_DATABASE -i taqnix_cheque_printing --stop-after-init

A layout for your bank

In plain words: Invoicing → Configuration → Cheques → Cheque layouts. A standard layout is there. Open it, or create one for each bank, and give the positions of each field in millimetres from the left and from the top of the cheque.

A layout: the options and the positions on the cheque.

Setting	What it does
Width, Height	The size of the cheque, used for the outline of the test print.
Date format	DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD or DDMMYYYY.
Amount in words	English, Arabic or the language of the payee.
Cents	50/100 or in words.
Account payee only	Draws the two crossing lines with the words at the top left.
Fill with stars	$ 1,234.50 so that nothing can be added.
Print the memo	Prints the memo of the payment at the position you give.

The test print: the outline of the cheque and the name of each field.

Tip: Press Test print on the layout. The paper size of the printout is the paper format Cheque (180 × 85 mm). For another size, change it in Settings → Technical → Paper Formats.

Cheque books

In plain words: Invoicing → Configuration → Cheques → Cheque books: choose the bank journal, the layout, the number of the first and the last cheque and how many digits the numbers have.

The books: one finished, one in use for each bank.

Rule	Detail
Numbers in order	The next cheque is given when you print; nothing to type.
Finished	When the last number is used the book is finished and the next book of the journal is used.
No overlap	Two books of the same journal cannot share numbers.

Print a cheque

In plain words: Open a payment to a vendor and press Print cheque. The number comes from the cheque book of the journal. To print many, select the payments in the list and choose Print cheques in the Action menu: the numbers are given in the order of the payments.

A payment with its cheque: book, number, payee and amount in words.

The printed cheque (the paper is pre-printed with the bank's text).

Field	Meaning
Cheque book	Filled with the book in use for the journal; choose another if needed.
Date on the cheque	Empty: the date of the payment. A later date makes a post-dated cheque.
Payee on the cheque	Empty: the name of the partner. Fill it when the cheque is to another name.

A cheque with the payee, the amount in words and the date in Arabic.

The register

In plain words: Invoicing → Vendors → Cheques lists every cheque printed, with its number, date, payee, bank, amount and how many times it was printed. Filters: post-dated and printed again.

In plain words: Void cheque (advisors) on the payment is for a spoiled cheque: a note is written in the chatter and the number is not used again.

Who can do what

Who	Can
Billing users	Print cheques, reprint them, see the books and layouts.
Accounting advisors	Create and change cheque books and layouts; void a cheque.

Arabic and right to left

Limits

Limit	Detail
Paper format	One paper format (180 × 85 mm) comes with the module; change it for other sizes.
Vendor payments	Only payments to vendors have cheques.
Numbers in words	Spelled by the `num2words` library that Odoo uses; very large amounts follow its rules.
Positions	Fields are placed in millimetres from the top left; no drag and drop.

For developers

In plain words: Skip this chapter if you only use the module.

payments.action_print_cheque()          # gives the numbers and returns the report action
payment.action_void_cheque()            # for a spoiled cheque
payment._tx_words(layout)               # 'One thousand ... Dollars only'

Troubleshooting

Problem	What to do
“There is no cheque book in use for the journal”	Create a cheque book for the journal, or a new one if the last is finished.
“The cheque book is finished”	Create the next book with its numbers.
The printout is shifted	Use Test print and adjust the positions; check that your printer prints at 100% without “fit to page”.
Accents or Arabic look wrong	Check that wkhtmltopdf is installed with its fonts; the module sets the UTF-8 encoding.
The number is already used	A number is used once per journal; void the cheque to free the payment.

Updating and removing

Replace the folder with the new version, restart Odoo and run -u taqnix_cheque_printing. Books, layouts and the cheque numbers of the payments are kept.

Support

Installation help and bug fixes are included for 6 months, with lifetime updates. Contact us through the marketplace page where you bought the module or write to support@taqnix.com with your Odoo version and a screenshot.