Seasonal 'estimate amount' not working

Question

I have a monthly Bill and Income Reminder transaction to pay my electric bill. I would like Quicken to estimate the cost based on seasonal amount.

I click Edit > Edit this and all future instances > Estimate amount for me (change). In the drop-down menu, I change to 'Time of Year' but I get the pop-up message: 'Quicken can't find a matching transaction at this time last year'.

However, I have literally eight YEARS of monthly transactions from this same provider, classified in the exact same way. Why can't Quicken use those transactions to figure out 'Time of Year' estimates?

Jim_Harman · Answer

Is this a new Reminder or one that you have been using for some time?

I have had trouble setting up estimated payment amounts for new Reminders. This is just a guess, but I think it may be looking at past instances of the Reminder rather than transactions in your register. If that is the case, it could only do seasonal estimates for Reminders that are more than a year old.

Also I have one Reminder for a credit card that I only use occasionally and thus I often skip the Reminder. But it keeps showing me an estimate based on past uses of the reminder rather than counting the skips as zeros.

Scooterlam · Answer

Can you try doing a file validation and repair, after doing a backup?

Can you take a screen grab of your prior year register enter and you current reminder dialog box inputs

Eric4371 · Answer

@Scooterlam July payments have two days difference this year vs last year. June was one day.