If I have Quickbooks online and I want to turn off the automatic payments when I send an invoice. My company prefers to be paid by check. What steps do I take?

Welcome to the Community, @ocg-howard-hotma.

I'm here to share some information about automatic payments to invoices in QuickBooks Online (QBO).

If you're setting up auto-pay for recurring invoices, you can cancel it by pause or delete actions.

Here's how:
 

1. Go to Settings ⚙.
2. Go to Lists, then select Recurring Transactions.
3. Locate the recurring invoice you wish to pause.
4. In the Action column,  select either Pause or Delete.

You can check this article for more details about autopay invoices: Set up Autopay for recurring invoices in QuickBooks Online.
 

If you need help managing your customers and sales, check out this article: Sales and customers.

Don't hesitate to comment below if you have other questions about managing invoices. I'm more than happy to help. Take care!