How to set when a scheduled bill will appear in a register (Q Mac)

Bryan Schmiedeler

I like to track as many scheduled bills (and income) as I possibly can. I would prefer that every scheduled item (no matter how often it is scheduled - weekly, monthly, yearly, etc.) would be entered into the correct register 1 month before it is due. That way I can very easily see how things are looking for the next month.

For example, a bill that I pay yearly should be entered 1 month before it is due. Something that is entered weekly should always have 4 weeks of entries. A bill that is monthly will always have 1 entry, and so on.

Can't find a way to do this, at least automatically.

I *think* I am going about this wrong. Should I instead do a budget? Or should I just look at the list of bills and income reminders in date order and for all that are within 28 or 30 days tell quicken to enter them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bryan

Boatnmaniac

It should be noted that @RickO 's suggestion will simply display the scheduled Reminders in the account register. It will not actually enter them into the register. This is a really good tool for budgetary planning and I use it in my accounts. But with this tool you will need to still manually enter the Reminders into to the register or schedule the Reminders to be automatically entered into the register so they become actual transactions.

If you want them to be automatically entered into the register you will need to edit each Reminder or recurring Reminder and under Optional Settings click on change. Then select Automatically enter the transaction in the register and then select the number of days prior to the due date that you want the transaction to be automatically entered into the register.

One additional comment: If you have not already done so you might want to go to Account Register > upper right Gear icon > Register Columns > check the box for Status. This will add a column on the left with a blue dot column header. In this column the status of the Reminders shown in the Register will be listed: Upcoming, Due, Overdue, Uncleared (for Reminders that have already been entered but have not yet been downloaded).

Bryan Schmiedeler

Oh man, that is easy. Thanks!!!

Boatnmaniac

It should be noted that @RickO 's suggestion will simply display the scheduled Reminders in the account register. It will not actually enter them into the register. This is a really good tool for budgetary planning and I use it in my accounts. But with this tool you will need to still manually enter the Reminders into to the register or schedule the Reminders to be automatically entered into the register so they become actual transactions.

If you want them to be automatically entered into the register you will need to edit each Reminder or recurring Reminder and under Optional Settings click on change. Then select Automatically enter the transaction in the register and then select the number of days prior to the due date that you want the transaction to be automatically entered into the register.

One additional comment: If you have not already done so you might want to go to Account Register > upper right Gear icon > Register Columns > check the box for Status. This will add a column on the left with a blue dot column header. In this column the status of the Reminders shown in the Register will be listed: Upcoming, Due, Overdue, Uncleared (for Reminders that have already been entered but have not yet been downloaded).

Bryan Schmiedeler

Boatmaniac,

I was a bit confused by your screen shot at first. I have Quicken for Mac. The interface is slightly different, but concept is the same. I edited all my scheduled bills so that they are automatically entered 30 days in advance.

Thanks to all for your assistance!!!

Boatnmaniac

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20367325#Comment_20367325

Oops! I did it again and didn't catch the QMac part. Sorry about that. But I'm glad that you were able to figure it out.

Boatnmaniac

Whether the transaction or entered or not behaves a bit differently on QWin than on Mac I believe On Mac, you don't really need to enter the transaction (equivalent to mark as paid/deposited) since the non-entered transactions will still update the running (future) balance.

Just a FYI: QWin operates the same way in this regard as does QMac.