Scheduled transaction with splits not updated

rwoolley2

I have a scheduled credit card transaction with many splits to categorize my spending. Each time I edit it for a new month, the splits have amounts from August 2019. I have to clear all the entered amounts to start fresh with a new month. This is time consuming and irritating. I tried "Edit All Instances" and cleared out the split amounts in that window, but it doesn't take so it's a waste of time. Every month I have to clear the August 2019 split amounts, repeatedly. Please fix this!!!

rwoolley2

Under this payee, I see Uses 167, Rules 0, Quickfill has 'Add' and the Bills and Income Payee box isn't checked.

Thanks.

rwoolley2

I looked at the QuickFill Rules and see for this payee that there are 79 QuickFill Rules. When I clicked on the Category Split, I see the amounts I just entered this afternoon for this payee. But when I open the next month's scheduled transaction, I don't see the amounts I just entered - I see the ones from August 2019. If it kept the last month's amounts that would be much better, but it would be nice to clear them out except for the ones that repeat month to month.

rwoolley2

Hi, I setup a separate credit card account as you described. I am able to download my transactions from my bank, so that's good. However, the categories downloaded don't match the categories I've used for this card in my main account (I didn't expect them to). I have to change the category for each line of the downloaded amounts. So when new transactions are downloaded, I'll need to catagorize the new transactions every time. It's OK to do it once, but changing the categories each month isn't much better than entering the amounts in my main account's credit card entry which already has the categories set up. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

rwoolley2

Also, is there a way to start at a specific date after the first download, and delete everything before that? I don't want to go through previous months' transactions since those are already recorded in the main account. I'd like to start just with March 2020.

Thanks.

rwoolley2

I deleted the old transactions. The "Improve the Quality ..." box was already checked, so I unchecked it. It looks like new downloaded transactions are keeping the category I use for the same payee, so that's great.

The remaining thing I need to do is reconcile the charges with my CC statement from the bank. I just pay the statement amount each month, not the current running amount. The "Reconcile" check mark is greyed out in my CC account, so I don't know how I can reconcile it.

Maybe I need to first create the "Transfer" transaction in my regular checking account as you mentioned? I paid April's CC bill on 4/4/20 using the multi-category entry in my checking account, so I'm not ready to pay next month's bill until around 5/1. The CC account now shows my April payment (received 4/6) since it was downloaded after I paid it using Bill Pay (on 4/4) in my bank checking account (not Quicken's bill pay).

Thanks.

rwoolley2

Hi RickO, any comment on reconciling my CC account with my CC statement?
Thanks.

rwoolley2

If I click on menu Accounts > the Reconcile Account selection is greyed out. The check mark I was referring to is at the bottom of the account window between the Print and Columns icons. I looked at the Help menu on reconcile and didn't see anything I didn't already know.
I added the Clr column to my CC account columns - all the boxes are checked. If I uncheck some of them there's no change to the Reconcile Account selection.
Maybe there's no Reconcile for this CC account because all the transactions have been downloaded from my CC bank, so they must be right?
Anyway, that's what I'm seeing.
Thanks.

rwoolley2

Oh!! That's it! I had clicked on the bold Credit Card, not the account underneath. The Reconcile check mark is now visible, and I can get to the Reconcile window. I should be good to go when my next statement is available.
Thanks!

rwoolley2

I want to delete the scheduled transactions for my credit card in my main account starting in May. This is the one that has all the splits with categories that I'm replacing with the CC account.
I clicked Delete for the May credit card scheduled transaction. I get a message with 3 options:
1) "Delete this series of scheduled transactions - All of the transactions in the series of scheduled transactions will be deleted."
2) "Skip this instance"
3) "Edit this and all future transactions"

If I do 1), will only this one and future scheduled transactions be deleted, or will all past transactions be also deleted? I definitely don't want that!

I plan to make another scheduled transaction with no splits as you described above to pay the bill, and a separate transaction to transfer that amount to my CC account.

Please advise.
Thanks.

jacobs

Once a scheduled transaction is marked as Paid, it is no longer part of a chain of scheduled transactions. So selecting choice #1 will delete all future transactions and won't touch the ones in the past.