Quicken Budget Bug - Three Paycheck Months

recursor1

Hi,

I, like many people, receive a biweekly paycheck. There are 26 paychecks and 12 months in a year. 10 of those months you receive two paychecks. 2 of those months you receive three paychecks. For whatever reason, Quicken Budget does not detect the third upcoming paycheck in a month. It can only detect two. So until those paychecks get entered in, it appears you are over-budget for that month. You can see it best in the annual view. Has this issue been reported? I imagine it has been around for awhile, and I suspect it would be really easy to fix.

I am using the latest version of Quicken Classic Premier for Windows by the way. R63.21, Build 27.1.63.21. This is not a new bug. This is just something I haven't had a chance to comment on before.

UKR

My memory may be getting a little rusty because I haven't received biweekly paychecks in a number of years, but I don't recall having problems with the Budget Annual View recognizing actual transactions for past months and scheduled reminders for the remainder of the year.
The only problem I remember having was with setting up budgeted amounts for each month, both gross income and deduction categories. I could never get Quicken to automatically define the monthly budgeted amount for those two three-paycheck-months. Best I could do was to define budgeted amounts as 1/12ths of the annual total (amount*26/12). This would give me an average budget for every month. At the end of the year it would even out. Oh, I know, that's not good enough for someone who wants to do zero budgeting or needs the monthly budget to exactly match the actual income, but for me it was good enough.

Are your paycheck reminders set up for "every 2 weeks"?
And, in Budgets, have you enabled Budget Actions / View Options / Include reminders to see the impact of reminders in future months as if they were real transactions already?