New Idea: Separate out Subscriptions from Monthly or Periodic Bill Reminders

JMattLyons

I use Bill and Income Reminders a lot, but find that it is getting polluted by all the subscriptions we all now seem to have - streaming, pets, etc.

It would be nice to have a tab that shows monthly income and "bills" — salary, mortgage, auto savings drafts, lights, gas, electric, credit cards; what I would call real bills

AND

a separate tab that shows subscriptions, and a way to tag so that it hits different tabs. Of course there should be one main tab.

TIA

NotACPA

Propose how Q is supposed to know what's a subscription vs the others.

E.G., I pay a monthly subscription/membership for my pest control services. Another for my glass recycling pickup. How is Q supposed to identify those from my regular bills?

Jim_Harman

If you want to identify subscriptions, perhaps you could assign them a Tag in their Reminders.

You could use the Tag to include or exclude subscription payments from reports.

Philip107

The Bill and Income Reminders, both the widget that can be assigned to custom views and the main menu window, needs to incorporate options to add and remove columns. I have a request out there to add the (comments, notes or memo) field from a reminder as a column. There's a total of 4 like requests dealing with improving the usability of these views.

Add "Memo" Column to the Bill and Income Reminders widget. — Quicken

Show "Memo" field on Bill and Income Reminders maintenance window — Quicken

Show Comments column in Bill and Income Reminders list. — Quicken

Bill and Income Reminders usability — Quicken

For this request you could add the Tag field as a column and sort by that.

-Phil

JMattLyons

@NotACPA I am just requesting a way to have a tab in the scheduled/bills pop up that can break out subscriptions from bills. The user would have to assign something as a subscription, perhaps by tag, because it would be impossible for Quicken to know (although Rocket Money makes pretty good guesses if you use that).

lkarbo

Given the number of apps available that can track similar information, I would love to see Quicken set up a way for users to easily identify recurring subscriptions and memberships—ones that are not regular utilities and bills. I'd like to know at a glance how much I'm spending on optional entertainment in various forms, be it reading, listening, watching, or even deliveries.