According to Article Number 38758, the bank draft payment date is the Invoice Date. I would prefer that there be an optional setting for what date the bank draft is given - either invoice date, invoice due date, or actual payment create date. Let it be MY choice.
In my case, I key all of our monthly credit card statement charges as "invoices" on our credit card provider's vendor record with the invoice date at the end of the month. I want all of the charges to be recorded as expenses that month, and I do this via Expense Management for approval flow. However, I don't actually pay the bill until the next month, via bank draft. When posting the bank draft payment, the payment is then being forced to be the invoice date, which is the incorrect month. Additionally, I may already have the bank reconciliation completed, which throws that off as well.
I can't set the "post date" separately in Expense Management, so I then have to go back into each "invoice" and modify each invoice date for all of our CC statements to be in the next month just so the bank draft date will correspond to the correct month.
I have an issue that Bank Draft payments are always recorded as the payment due date even when payments are pushed earlier. Month end closing often has reconciling items where cash has been sent but the invoice is not processed as paid in Financial Edge.