Credit card balances should be reflected in Bill Reminders (dynamically update). This is a much missed feature from QWin and makes budgeting more difficult.
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I also highly recommend that you browse through the IDEAS section of this forum and VOTE for the request of each of the missing features to be added back into Quicken for Mac....to help direct the priorities of the developers.
Be sure to scroll down each page, as some contain lists of related features. Click on the link to EACH IDEA separately that you are interested in, then click the VOTE button at the top of EACH page that opens up respectively to increase the count and therefore its visibility to the developers.
If you do not click VOTE at the top of the page of each feature, your vote will NOT be counted for THAT specific feature!
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I also highly recommend that you browse through the IDEAS section of this forum and VOTE for the request of each of the missing features to be added back into Quicken for Mac....to help direct the priorities of the developers.
Click on each link above, then be sure to scroll down each page, as some contain lists of related features. Then VOTE on EACH IDEA separately that you are interested in.
If you do not click VOTE at the top of the page of each feature, your vote will NOT be counted for THAT specific feature!
(If you find this reply helpful, please be sure to click "Like", so others will know, thanks.)
Ideally, this feature should have the option to maintain the "Estimated Statement Date" AND the "Estimated Payment Due Date" of the FI/Bank, either automatically (via linked Bills) or manually, via input from the user, so that charges to the credit card account after the Statement date are not included, until the Payment Due Date, at which point they become included... Otherwise, this dynamic balance should reflect all charges recorded in the account.
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Just keep it like in the windows version. Update the reminder with the with the unpaid balance. The lack of this feature is the only reason I have the windows version running on the Mac.
@redgar This Quicken Community forum was run on a different forum software platform up until the end of January of this year. When Quicken migrated to this system, the divorce from the previous provider didn't go well, so some things weren't able to be preserved in the transition. One of those was the vote totals for Idea threads; they captured the votes from the old system, but were unable to insert them into this system. So they employed the very low-tech solution of modifying the topic titles to include how many votes ideas had previously received on the old system -- "legacy votes." So you should add the 70 plus the 4 above to get a total of 74 votes for the idea.
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I wonder if there is a way in Quicken Mac to dynamically update credit card balance and reflect such balance in Projected Balance. This will be very helpful in budget planning.
Tyka, As I accrue new credit card balance in everyday use, and I pay the full balance with every statement (which basically is a bill to pay), the Projected Balance curve in Bill and Income tab should reflect that dynamic change. Quicken Window has that capability but not Quicken Mac.
I would like to see this too. As a previous Quicken Windows user, I used to have my balance reflect. As I used the card, my bill would increase and show on the Projected Balance graph.
E.G.
I have a card that is due on the 1st of the month. Here is how I used it:
Today (5/2) my statement comes out and says on 6/1 you will owe $100. I enter into my register a payment on 6/1 for $100. From today (5/2) until 6/1 I charge an additional $50 on the card. In the Windows version, my 7/1 balance would show $50. This is the new charge. My 8/1 balance would show $0. This is because I have a total of $150 in charges, and 2 payment which total $150 ($100 on 6/1 and $50 on 7/1).
Basically, I have it setup to always pay whatever balance is due on my next available scheduled entry. This is the way it works in the Windows Version.
Need Current Total Amount Option for Credit Card Payment Scheduled Transactions (Q Mac)
The Bills and Income graph is a very helpful planning tool for those of us who have added accurate reminders for our recurring transactions, but it's still missing a feature for credit cards: the effect of paying off each credit card in full on the cash available in the main account (typically checking). I use my average statement balance for the last twelve months as the scheduled transaction amount as a workaround, but that is not as accurate as a live balance.
I see the greatest value of Quicken as a tool to measure and plan spending and control debts. I don't think Quicken users are necessarily typical of the general population (likely a bit better educated and older), but controlling credit card balances is, I think, one of the most widespread financial challenges, and this feature would be helpful to many people. A nice enhancement would be to have the amount be the total balance, up to a user-set cap, so that people could plan paying off their credit cards.
I have some memory of a similar feature having been available in past versions.
I am another user that has recently switched from windows to Mac and have noticed the lack of this setting. Having to manually update the credit card balance at every download doesn't make sense. Please have this feature added sooner than later.