You can have GnuCash automatically trigger a payment request following a reconciliation, at which point one could (a) know with some certainty the valid statement balance and enter it, and (b) choose a date of your preference for the transaction. I would imagine that could fit the bill, so to speak.
You *do* reconcile your credit card, right? David T. On Dec 1, 2025, 10:48 PM, at 10:48 PM, Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Tom, > >I'm not aware of anyone else's efforts on this front but we only >migrated our 25 year Quicken file to GnuCash 4.12 on Windows 10 in >September of 2022. There were a number of WAF issues with GnuCash I >needed to resolve as well as a few functional deficiencies which I have > >carried forward to this day. Some of these “features” required >patching >GnuCash code. One of these was to implement the variable estimate >functions in schedule transaction templates for forecast reports I >mentioned earlier: > > >balance(variable) > forecast balance of the account the day before the next instance. > >credit(variable) > forecast the credit statement's closing balance for the next instance > using the earliest notification to indicate the closing date. > >last(variable amounts) > use the average of the previous amounts provided > (up to 6 amounts). > >time(variable amounts) > use month of the instance to determine an index for the amounts > provided (up to 6 amounts). > >estimate(variable amount) > use the amount provide. > > >For example, the template for a credit card payment is form: > > credit card account credit(balance) > checking account balance > > >When an instance of the scheduled transaction appears on the "Since >Last >Run..." window, it includes the variable name with the editable >estimated amount. > >Regards, > >Sherlock > > >On 12/1/25 12:50 AM, Tom Route36 wrote: >> Hi Sherlock, >> >> I haven't actually tried that. I've been trying to work with the >> standard GnuCash releases to better understand what functions and >> features are available as is. I'm still coming up to speed with just > >> the basics. But it's sounding like what I'm looking for isn't really > >> available -- at least not in the stable releases. Have there been >any >> similar comments or requests like mine about Scheduled Transactions >in >> the past? Has anyone else tried to add such functionality before? >> >> Tom >> >> >> On 12/1/2025 12:47 AM, Sherlock wrote: >>> Hi Tom, >>> >>> Are you able to build GnuCash yet? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Sherlock >>> >>> >>> On 11/30/25 9:35 PM, Tom Route36 wrote: >>>> I'm still adjusting to GnuCash as a former Quicken user; and I have >a >>>> question about setting up Scheduled Transactions for my Checking >>>> account. In Quicken it was fairly straightforward to create Bill >>>> Reminders (essentially Scheduled Transactions) in Checking for each > >>>> of my Credit Card accounts. And the amounts in each Reminder could >be >>>> set to track each Credit Card balance. Those Reminder amounts >would >>>> update automatically as new transactions got entered into each >Credit >>>> Card account. That was great. I could look at a list of Bill >>>> Reminders in my Checking account and see in advance how much money >>>> would be needed each month to pay off all the upcoming credit card >>>> bills. >>>> >>>> In GnuCash though when I setup a Scheduled Transaction for my >>>> Checking account there doesn't seem to be anyway of doing that. The > >>>> Template Transaction requires me to enter a FIXED amount for each >>>> Credit Card account. So the list of Scheduled Transactions won't >>>> really reflect my CURRENT Credit Card balances -- not unless I >>>> manually go and update them everyday. I've looked thru the GnuCash > >>>> documentation; but I don't see any mention anywhere about this >>>> topic. Is there some way to have Scheduled Transactions >>>> automatically show the full current Credit Card account balances? >>>> >>>> Tom > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >[email protected] >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
