Do the running balances in the account itself, and on the Accounts tab
not suffice here? Depending on the column(s) you choose to display, you
should be able to see at a glance what you owe on each card. That won't
show up in the official Reminders window, but the info is there. Perhaps
I'm misunderstanding though.
As for adding the account balance as a variable, that is awesome. Yes,
it has come up several times before. There are various threads where the
idea was discussed, but the end result was simply, "not available at
this time." I suppose Sherlock was simply the first with need, ability,
and time to implement it. (I would suspect that's how most features get
added.)
Regards,
Adrien
On 12/1/25 5:44 PM, Tom Route36 wrote:
David, yes I absolutely do reconcile each of my credit card accounts,
along with my checking and savings too. That almost always gets done as
soon as I get each monthly statement. The issue for me is that I don't
really want to wait to do a reconciliation. I enter transactions into
GnuCash on a daily basis as they occur. And what I would like to see in
my Scheduled Transactions is a real-time view of what those balances are
even BEFORE the monthly statements happen.
In Quicken I could open my Checking account register and see a list of
Bill and Income Reminders there showing me the current real-time
balances of all my Credit Card accounts, along with estimated due dates
(based on past due dates). No monthly statement or reconciliation
needed. Comparing those Bill Reminders against my Checking account
balance would let me know on a DAILY basis if I might need to transfer
money to checking for the upcoming monthly bills or not. That's a
Quicken feature that I miss with GnuCash. And it's one that I'm hoping
can be added to GnuCash, either in a real release (ideally) or via my
own customization (if needed).
Sherlock, thanks for your explanation about how you ended up having to
patch the GnuCash code. I'm actually somewhat surprised that there
hasn't been enough interest from folks over the years to get variable
estimate functions implemented for Scheduled Transactions. It seems like
that would be a feature that more people would like to have -- i.e.,
knowing in advance how much money will be needed in Checking to pay off
bills later that month. Anyway, for right now I'll stick with the
standard GnuCash releases, since I'm still getting used to everything.
But at some point later on, it looks like I'll probably want to add
those variable estimates, assuming they don't make it into an official
release. Thanks for your help and advice.
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