How to stop scheduled transactions, paychecks, and bills from automatically entering

I've had this Quicken file for many years. It used to be that my scheduled bills and paychecks would wait until I chose to enter then via the Bill and Income Reminders tab within the account register. Starting a couple years ago it seems that they enter themselves. This is a pain for my paychecks because I have split deposits. Now I'm having issues not only with the paychecks automatically entering themselves, requiring me to edit the split to have it match correctly, but also after entering, and reconciling, the transactions change to show as only a transfer from my main deposit account to one of the other accounts and only for the amount of the split deposit.

This seems like a complicated problem, but I'm at my wits end to fix. With the new year, should I just start a new file?

Answers

  • Boatnmaniac
    Boatnmaniac Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    Select one of the Reminders that are causing this issue for you and then select Edit this instance and all future Instances. This will open the Edit Bill Reminder popup.

    In this popup under Optional Settings is Auto enter XX days in advance shown there? If so, click on the blue font change link.

    You should now see this popup. Select Remind me XX days in advance (you decide how many days you want entered here) and then click on OK followed by clicking on Done.

    This should stop the auto enter for this Repeating Reminder. You will need to repeat this process with each of your other Reminders that is having this auto enter issue.

    Quicken Classic Premier (US) Subscription: R61.16 on Windows 11 Home

  • bizzy
    bizzy Member ✭✭✭
    edited January 22

    Thanks, but the Paycheck function doesn't have these options. The closest is for the repetition, it has the option to "Automatically enter" or "Remind me" and it's set on "remind me".

  • mshiggins
    mshiggins Quicken Windows 2017 SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bizzy if your account is set to display pending transactions, you’ll want to try toggling pending transactions off. See this post for details on the issue:

    Quicken user since Q1999. Currently using QW2017.
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  • bizzy
    bizzy Member ✭✭✭

    Thanks, but I already turned that off. This problem has been occurring since before they introduced that feature.