[GNC] How to setup a Scheduled Transaction for full current Credit Card Balance?

[Sherlock]

Hi Tom,

Are you able to build GnuCash yet?

Regards,

Sherlock


On 11/30/25 9:35 PM, Tom Route36 wrote:
> I'm still adjusting to GnuCash as a former Quicken user; and I have a 
> question about setting up Scheduled Transactions for my Checking 
> account.  In Quicken it was fairly straightforward to create Bill 
> Reminders (essentially Scheduled Transactions) in Checking for each of 
> my Credit Card accounts.  And the amounts in each Reminder could be set 
> to track each Credit Card balance.  Those Reminder amounts would update 
> automatically as new transactions got entered into each Credit Card 
> account.  That was great.  I could look at a list of Bill Reminders in 
> my Checking account and see in advance how much money would be needed 
> each month to pay off all the upcoming credit card bills.
> 
> In GnuCash though when I setup a Scheduled Transaction for my Checking 
> account there doesn't seem to be anyway of doing that.  The Template 
> Transaction requires me to enter a FIXED amount for each Credit Card 
> account.  So the list of Scheduled Transactions won't really reflect my 
> CURRENT Credit Card balances -- not unless I manually go and update them 
> everyday.  I've looked thru the GnuCash documentation; but I don't see 
> any mention anywhere about this topic.  Is there some way to have 
> Scheduled Transactions automatically show the full current Credit Card 
> account balances?
> 
> Tom