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

[Geoff Jankowski]

You could always build and save a transaction report for all credit cards on the one report. Running it at any time will then show the current balance. 

Having said that, a real time update of a scheduled transaction would be more than helpful. 

Geoff
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> On 2 Dec 2025, at 09:22, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> This was what I was proposing with the reconcile/pay process.
> 
> Quicken apparently predicts how much money a user plans to spend and tells you what it thinks you are going to owe based on the scheduled (i.e., hypothetical) transaction. GnuCash, however, follows a more traditional accounting path and only tells you about transactions (past, present and future) that you have entered into the books.
> 
> Personally, I don't need that Quicken-type of prediction; if I need to project my accounts in the future, I will create the necessary transactions (past, present and future) to allow me to adjudge the financial status. It might be in the OP's best interest to look at some of these other suggestions to achieve their goal, albeit in a different manner than Quicken's.
> 
>> On 12/2/2025 7:35 AM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
>>> On 2025-12-01 18:00, Sherlock wrote:
>>> The running balances in the account don't include scheduled transactions
>>> and the only known date of a balance on Accounts tab is today (present).
>>>  So, No.  In my opinion, they don't suffice.
>> But do they need to be _scheduled_ transactions? When my credit card
>> statement comes in, I check it against my records, then enter a
>> transaction dated on the day the payment will be made, since I now know
>> the exact amounts. That keeps both my checking account and my credit
>> card account up to date for all past _and_ known future transactions. So
>> I can look at either account's register and see what the balance will be
>> on any desired date.
>> 
>> Stan Brown
>> Tehachapi, CA, USA
>> https://BrownMath.com
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