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

[Adrien Monteleone]

Do the running balances in the account itself, and on the Accounts tab 
not suffice here? Depending on the column(s) you choose to display, you 
should be able to see at a glance what you owe on each card. That won't 
show up in the official Reminders window, but the info is there. Perhaps 
I'm misunderstanding though.

As for adding the account balance as a variable, that is awesome. Yes, 
it has come up several times before. There are various threads where the 
idea was discussed, but the end result was simply, "not available at 
this time." I suppose Sherlock was simply the first with need, ability, 
and time to implement it. (I would suspect that's how most features get 
added.)

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/1/25 5:44 PM, Tom Route36 wrote:
> David, yes I absolutely do reconcile each of my credit card accounts, 
> along with my checking and savings too.  That almost always gets done as 
> soon as I get each monthly statement.  The issue for me is that I don't 
> really want to wait to do a reconciliation. I enter transactions into 
> GnuCash on a daily basis as they occur. And what I would like to see in 
> my Scheduled Transactions is a real-time view of what those balances are 
> even BEFORE the monthly statements happen.
> 
> In Quicken I could open my Checking account register and see a list of 
> Bill and Income Reminders there showing me the current real-time 
> balances of all my Credit Card accounts, along with estimated due dates 
> (based on past due dates).  No monthly statement or reconciliation 
> needed.  Comparing those Bill Reminders against my Checking account 
> balance would let me know on a DAILY basis if I might need to transfer 
> money to checking for the upcoming monthly bills or not.  That's a 
> Quicken feature that I miss with GnuCash. And it's one that I'm hoping 
> can be added to GnuCash, either in a real release (ideally) or via my 
> own customization (if needed).
> 
> Sherlock, thanks for your explanation about how you ended up having to 
> patch the GnuCash code.  I'm actually somewhat surprised that there 
> hasn't been enough interest from folks over the years to get variable 
> estimate functions implemented for Scheduled Transactions. It seems like 
> that would be a feature that more people would like to have -- i.e., 
> knowing in advance how much money will be needed in Checking to pay off 
> bills later that month.  Anyway, for right now I'll stick with the 
> standard GnuCash releases, since I'm still getting used to everything. 
> But at some point later on, it looks like I'll probably want to add 
> those variable estimates, assuming they don't make it into an official 
> release.  Thanks for your help and advice.