[GNC] Scheduling Monthly Transactions for Full Credit Card Balances?

[Tom Route-36]

Hi all,

This is a follow-up to my earlier email question here.  I really would 
like some way of creating ongoing monthly Scheduled Transactions for 
each of my credit card accounts that will always default to the full 
credit card balance each month.  What I'm trying to do is to be able to 
look at a list of Scheduled Transactions for my checking account; and 
from that list know each month how high a balance my checking account 
needs to be in order to pay off all those credit cards in full.  It 
seems like no one has been able to come up with an answer though.  So 
let me ask a more specific question.

When creating a Scheduled Transaction, the splits for each transaction 
include two columns labeled Debit Formula and Credit Formula.  Typically 
(for say an Internet provider or a Phone carrier) I'd enter whatever 
fixed amount I get charged each month as a FIXED dollar value.  But 
since these columns are labeled "Formula" that also implies that I can 
enter a mathematical expression (i.e., a formula) that results in a 
CALCULATED dollar value.  There is some bare bones documentation about 
formulas at this link: 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Scheduled_Transactions.  But I don't see 
any info there on how to query an account to get its current balance, 
which is what I need.  Does anyone know how to grab an account balance 
so that it can be included as a variable in a formula?  If anyone has an 
idea about how to do that please let me know.

Tom


On 9/8/2025 4:04 PM, Tom Route-36 wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know if there's a way in GnuCash to create monthly Scheduled 
> Transactions for a checking account to pay a credit card account where 
> the formula for the monthly transaction amount is always equal to the 
> current monthly balance of the credit card account?  What I'm hoping to 
> do is to have something functionally similar to "Bill and Income 
> Reminders" in Quicken.  Please let me know if there's some way of doing 
> that.
> 
> Tom