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

[Tom Route36]

Hi Maf,

I think you understand what it is I'm talking about here.  It's 
basically just REMINDERS.  Whenever I create a Scheduled Transaction I 
always leave the Create Automatically option UNCHECKED. Regardless of 
whether it's Quicken's Bill Reminders or GnuCash's Scheduled 
Transactions, I never let the software automatically enter any 
transaction for me.  What Quicken had -- and what I'd hope to see in 
GnuCash -- is the ability to look at an account (mainly my Checking 
account) and see what upcoming payments will need to be made FROM THAT 
ACCOUNT.  Essentially, I just want to look at my Checking account and 
see a list of upcoming Due Dates, Payees, and Amounts Due.  That's it.  
It's not that complicated.  And it IS very useful.

And just for clarification, the Amount Due in that list would simply be 
whatever the current balance is for each Payee account -- i.e., what 
I've entered into the Payee account register so far as of the current 
date.  It's NOT any projection or estimate of future transactions.  So 
it doesn't seem like this would overload the Scheduled Transactions code.

Tom


On 12/2/2025 3:54 AM, Maf. King wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 December 2025 09:58:46 GMT Tom Route36 wrote:
>>   And it's the key piece of
>> information that's not available for Scheduled Transactions in GnuCash.
> Hi Tom,
>
> I'm arriving late to this party....
>
> but..... if such a "balance at date" variable existed....
>
> The sx would fire on schedule, create the transaction using the formula and the
> transaction wouldn't update live as you describe enjoying.
>
>> But the Bill Reminders in Quicken are much more
>> user-friendly and keep the amounts up-to-date in real time; whereas the
>> amounts for Scheduled Transactions in GnuCash are static and don't show
>> a true picture of what will be due to each payee as the due date approaches.
> So, you're really asking for "reminder transactions" which contain a live
> variable (not a fixed number) to be added to GC register code to match what
> quicken does.  (I admit, does sound useful!)
>
> The SX sub-system is more an "automation macro" for creating regular,
> repetitive transactions - once created, txns in the registers don't change,
> regardless if that's one you manually enter or one the Sx system adds in.
>
> Just get the idea that you're trying to overload something new onto the Sx
> that won't quite scratch your itch!
>
> 0.02
> Maf.
>
>