Scheduled transactions
Mark Johnson
mrj001 at shaw.ca
Mon Nov 20 15:44:39 EST 2006
Mark Baker wrote:
>I'm a long-time Quicken user (since 1991) who's just come over to GnuCash, so
>please forgive me for any hard-to-shake preconceptions. For the record, I
>like GnuCash a lot, and shedding the last vestige of Windows is even better.
>
>I used scheduled transactions in Quicken for all my bills, and if I paid one
>early, I just went to the calendar and paid it early. In a couple of weeks
>of working with GnuCash and reading documentation, I've been unable to find a
>way to pay a scheduled transaction early; it seems to lock me into paying
>when the scheduler decides it's time. It also seems to be an all-or-nothing
>proposition; either I enter all the transactions since last run, or none of
>them. Is there a way to pay individual scheduled transactions early, one at
>a time, that I'm missing?
>
>
Here's what I do. I have gnucash create all my monthly bills for the
end of the month. They are created near the beginning of the month, so
I have a bunch of future transactions, which show below a blue line in
the register (my checking account in this case). When the bill comes, I
pay it, and adjust the date and amounts in the register.
It's not a very sophisticated approach, but it works for me.
Hope this helps,
Mark
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