Bill Reminder enhancement - Allow the number of years to be specified
Currently "Yearly" reminders renew one year in the future. However, many subscriptions for magazines or software have 2 or 3 year terms. To support multi-year subscriptions, you need to be allowed to specify the number of years similar to days, weeks and months.
Note: As a work around, you can specify the renewal period in months. IE 24 months or 36 months. But it would be cleaner to allow the number of years to be specified.
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That has been requested a long time ago, as part of this discussion:
As a workaround, until the programmers get this out of the planning stage, as you stated, one can specify a frequency of
Monthly, every 24 months for a 2-year frequency.
P.S. Be careful when switching a reminder's frequency back from Monthly to Yearly … you may end up with a Yearly frequency of greater than 1 year without it showing in the panel. The program does not appear to reset "every [xx]" to " every [1]".
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Thanks UKR for your warning about switching from monthly to yearly. Looks like Quicken will never add the enhancement if it was originally requested in 2016.
Frankly, I use this bug to set subscriptions to 2 or 3 years. For example, to have a 3 year subscription reminder I first set it to 3 months and save. Then I change it to "Yearly". The "How Often" column in the "Manage Bills and Income" button report correctly does show "Every 3 years" and Quicken does properly set the next date as 3 years forward. I did not mention this in my original posting since you never know when Quicken will fix the bug!
In the interim I am using the bug as a workaround.
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