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

[Tom Route-36]

Hi everyone,

I'm replying to my own email here just briefly because I wanted to let 
everyone know how much I appreciate all the good suggestions that you've 
all been providing here on this issue.  It looks like quite a few of us 
have similar needs to track balance requirements for upcoming payments. 
(Probably why we're using GnuCash in the first place, right?)  Anyway, 
I'll reply to each person separately just to keep things straight -- 
with a Cc to the list of course.  Thanks to all again.

Tom


On 9/9/2025 7:07 PM, Tom Route-36 wrote:
> 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
>