Payee Field On Checks/Payments

I've used various methods for different clients for getting the payee field to show properly on checks, bill payments, customer refunds, expense report payments, etc. There are so many possibilities between those types, whether entity auto-numbering is turned on, etc. I've never come across a customer who uses all the various transaction types and has numbering turned on...until now. Have to solve that one, but has anyone ever developed code that works in all cases? It would be nice to have a "universal" block of code for the payee field that works no matter what transaction type or numbering choice