Hey Sherlock, that's a most interesting and helpful reference to an amazingly useful feature. Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sherlock Sent: 3 June 2026 02:50 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GNC] Any Simpler Way to Schedule Irregular Estimated Tax Payments? Hi Tom, https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Scheduled_Transactions Regards, Sherlock On 6/2/26 6:03 PM, Tom Route36 wrote: > Hi Mark, > > You're my hero. I guess I'm still a newbie here. The idea of using a > variable in the template transaction never occurred to me. I wasn't > even aware of the possibility of doing that. In looking thru the > GnuCash manual for tips about scheduling , I never saw any mention > there about variables at all. (But feel free to point me to the > documentation if I missed it.) > > Anyway, by plugging in a variable name in my template transactions, > that pretty much takes care of my laziness. Essentially, I just > create those > 8 scheduled transactions once -- with a variable name for each amount. > And then I never have to edit those schedules again. I just plug in > the correct amount whenever each transaction comes due and gets created. > Easy! That's what I was looking for. > > Thanks for your help, > Tom > > > On 06/02/2026 12:50 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: >> I don't know if it would ease the burden of editing the transactions, >> but you can use variables in the template transactions and the "Since >> Last Run" dialog will then prompt for the value(s) each time the >> transaction is due. Where you would normally fill in debit/credit >> amounts in the template transaction, instead enter a word such as >> "estimate". Use the same word in both splits, and it'll prompt for >> the value for "estimate" each time the transaction is due and use the >> value you enter for the transaction. >> >> That would avoid needing to go into each template transaction to edit >> the amounts, at the expense of needing to manually enter the amount >> each time. >> >> Another workaround would be to schedule the transaction for every >> month, and just select to skip entering the transaction in the "Since >> Last Run" dialog when it comes up in the months you don't need it. >> >> Neither of those options is perfect, more a matter of working out >> what's least inconvenient ;) >> >> Mark. >> >> >> Tom Route36 wrote: >>> Hi Liz, >>> >>> I know what you're saying as far as GnuCash handling things "under >>> the hood" once the transactions are setup. The reason it's a bit >>> annoying (at least once a year) is that I usually need to adjust the >>> estimated payments each year. So it would be easier to only have to >>> adjust 2 scheduled transactions, rather than having to edit and >>> update 8 of them individually every year. >>> >>> As I said, it's really minor. But if anyone had come up with an >>> easy way to handle these kinds of irregular schedules it would be >>> useful to know about it. Editing 2 each year is better than editing 8. >>> (Hey, I'll admit I'm lazy.) >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> >>> On 06/01/2026 10:00 PM, Liz wrote: >>>> On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 20:51:01 -0600 >>>> Tom Route36<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I know this isn't a big issue. But I'm just wondering if it's >>>>> possible to combine those 8 scheduled transactions into just 2. >>>>> Any advice would be appreciated. >>>> I don't know of any way to do that. >>>> I would also note that once they are all scheduled it doesn't >>>> really matter how they appear in the editor for scheduled >>>> transactions, as Gnucash handles the rest under the hood. >>>> >>>> I have had 12 monthly tax payments listed, 4 occurring regularly at >>>> quarterly intervals with one set of splits, and the other 8 on the >>>> fill in months with a second set of splits. >>>> >>>> I made separate entries for the second group as the only way I >>>> found to manage this in Gnucash. >>>> It was then of no concern until I needed to cancel eight separate >>>> entries. >>>> >>>> Liz >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. _______________________________________________ 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. 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