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Additional option for frequency of occurrence on bill reminders (74 Legacy Votes)

I recently switched to the pre-pay cell phone plan at AT&T and they charge every 30 days; not only is AT&T a huge company with plenty of pre-pay customers, even Straight Talk has an auto pay option that charges every 30 days. There is currently no way to set this up in Quicken (2016) that I could find, or that customer service could direct me to. Your closest options are every four weeks or once a month, and neither is really satisfactory for this situation.
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I'd specifically like to be able to schedule payments that occur once every two years (I have some subscriptions that offer a discount if paying for two years). At the moment I have to schedule them as yearly payments, then remember to adjust the next payment date after a payment is made.
You can do an every two years reminder now in Quicken for Windows. It is not obvious, but you do a Monthly every 24 months.
The Reminder:
The first time shown in the reminder list, date is 2016:
After accepting it, date is now 2018.
As I said, it is not obvious, but it does do the job with the current program.
About the OP's idea, I think it is a good one and I voted for it. If you add an idea for multiple years vs doing it as shown above, I'd vote for it too.
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There is a workaround (thanks to SuperUser splasher for pointing it out) of scheduling the transaction to repeat monthly with a frequency of 24 months, but it's a non-obvious solution, especially given the the UI drop-down list includes "twice a year" and "yearly" (i.e. you don't have to set up monthly repeats for 6 and 12 months respectively in those cases).
Conceivably some people may need to set repeats with frequencies longer than 2 years, so I'd like to suggest enhancing the choices to include a "Repeat every N years", where the user can set the value of N.
IMHO, one or more of these Scheduling Frequencies should be added:
- Daily every single day, weekends and holidays included
- Workdays daily, every Monday thru Friday. Optionally holidays in-/excluded
- Selected days of the week only from a list of weekdays only on selected days, e.g., M_W_F_ _, Monday, Wednesday and Friday only. Optionally holidays in-/excluded
That should take care of those
- daily trips to the coffee shop
- the toll fees for bridge, HOV lane or toll road usage
- the twice weekly trip to the fitness center
- Tips income received at the job
- every nth day
- First (or 2nd, 3rd, 4th or Last) Business Day
- generically, allow for repeating [x] days, [x[ weeks, [x] months and [x] years, combined with options to select weekdays vs any day, and xth day of the month (every 2nd Tues), as illustrated in posts here and here, or explained here.
What do you guys say?
Feel free to add your comments and suggestions, too.
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The starting point looks like this:
repeating (drop down menu):
Simple selection of every day, week, month, year OR Custom....
Selecting the repeating frequency brings up the corresponding option in a pop up window.
Selecting Custom...Daily looks like this:
(self-explanatory)
Custom...Weekly looks like this:
(you can select as many or as few days as you want)
It includes the ability to select any and all days of the week, with the flexibility to select one or more days by clicking them.
This option gives the option that satisfies the list that ukr presents above.
Custom...Monthly looks like my other reply above/
Custom...Yearly look like this:
(you can select as many or as few months as you want)
(And just like Monthly, you can opt for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Last occurrence, with same choices including weekdays, and weekends)
All these options also include a way to define the end in either one of 3 ways:
Never (ongoing), After # times (i.e. # days, # weeks, # months, # years, based on the selection), or End Date where you define a final date.
Selections are made as above, then window closes with displaying only a summary of the choices. The resulting sample display will look like this:
This is far more flexible and covers all the scenarios currently used by Quicken and MORE!!!! This is the best GUI presentation of all the options I have ever seen in a compact design, easy to understand, use, and follow.
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It also includes a field for defining the end in one of 3 ways, either never (ongoing), after # times (i.e. # weeks to repeat) and On Date where you define a final date.
This allows you to select ANY day(s) to repeat....So you can pick the 4 thursdays of the month (like that one user wanted), or you can select 1st, 2nd 3rd 4th, last occurrence of the month from the menu shown, which includes the ability to select weekdays or weekends (another request by some users).
Notice that to select the Last day of the month, which varies from month to month, there is an (L) at the end of the calendar.
AND all this can be combined with the yearly, weekly, and daily options to create some very interesting and flexible combinations.
This is a far more flexible interface from a user perspective...(though surely somewhat trickier to program).
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That said, I really like the user interface that is designed in BusyCal, as I show above, that can handle pretty much most, if not all, scheduling options.
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Also, if you you create a scheduled transaction retroactively, Quicken will prompt you if you want to enter those transactions from that retroactive date. If you accept, it will enter ALL occurrences automatically at the frequency specified. Can speed up data entry when you are playing catch-up.
(I have taken advantage of that feature a few times over the years).
So, again, if you have a high frequency transaction, even 2-3 times per week, it can be helpful.
BTW, I really like the interface provide by BusyCal, as I captured above. Super flexible from a user perspective and easy to apply. Covers pretty much all scenarios easily.
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- We go to the laundromat every 10 days. Currently I am using a 1 week scheduled transaction but keep finding the reminder appearing long before it is due. I have tried 2 weeks, but then it appears long after it is due and we may or may not remember how many quarters were put in the dryers.
- Our pre-paid cell phone plans renew every 30 and every 90 days. I am using 4 weeks and 3 months for these - only a little bit off the mark.
Notice these are not every day, but rather every nth day which is just a generalization of the daily frequency.macOS Mojave 10.14.6
I have may times wished for similar functionality in Quicken.
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1. Every 90 days
2. Every 3 years
3. 4 times a year:
1st Monday in January
1st Monday in March
3rd Monday in August
1st Monday in October
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you can do is to set up the next payment for the correct date with an annual repeat, and then after the reminder has triggered, edit the next occurrence to set the date correctly. It's a bit painful, but better than forgetting the bill.
Now to get them both more updated to be more versatile.
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#1 (every 90 days) is the only one that you can not finagle your way around in QW without setting up explicit, non-repeating reminders.
"Changing 4 entries is bad enough, trying to find them is worse."
How many reminders do you have? Surely the list isn't that long.
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