Previous payment amount.

silvasp

Is there a way, that when I enter a payee (monthly bill), the amount I paid the previous month, is automatically entered in the register?

jacobs

I'm sorry, but the reply above from @Quicken Jared is incorrect. There definitely is a way to have the most recent amount for a Payee show up the next time you use the Payee in a new transaction. 

This is done via QuickFill Rules. You can set this globally in Preferences > Register to creat QuickFill rules for all transactions as you enter them. The key is to set it to save "All fields" (not "Category only"):

Now, when a QuickFill rule is created, it will apply the entire transaction — category, amount, memo, tag — the next time you use the same Payee.

The next time as you start to type the Payee name, Quicken will pop up suggested entries, and you'll see your Payee twice: once the "naked" Payee name, if you want to accept the Payee but not fill in the other field, and again with a line which shows the QuickFill rule which Quicken is ready to apply to fill in all the fields:

Note that you can also control the creation of QuickFill rules on a transaction-by-transaction basis when via the little pop-up above the category field. Here again, make sure it shows "all fields":

So if you have the global preference set to create QuickFill rules, you can uncheck the box on an individual transaction if you don't want to save a QuickFill rule for that particular transaction. Conversely, if you have the global preference set to not create QuickFill rules, you can check the box on an individual transaction if you do want to save a QuickFill rule for that particular transaction.

One other note: turning on the global preference to create QuickFill rules will tell Quicken to create the rule with the amounts the next time you save a transaction for each Payee, so you'll have to enter the amount the next time — after that, the rule will fill in the amount for future uses of the Payee.