Well, I agree with your wish in principle, but it'd be complex to implement
that way. The account where you really want to know cash flow in this
scenario is not the credit card account--it's the account(s) that are paying
the cerdit card off and that's where it'd get hard to implement. How would
Money know which account(s) you want to do this from?

So, what I do is create the recurring payment (transfer) to the account and
either:

a) create it based on an average amount I consider typical and update
individual bill series entries as I know about exceptions. (Buying $1,000 of
tires this month? Update the amount in the next scheduled transfer to reflect
this as soon as you know it...)

or

b) set the amount to the "average based on past twelve payments" flag in the
scheduled bill series. This is less good--particularly in extraordinary cases
like the tires--but much easier.

What I've long wished for is some definitional grammar where I can define
the amount of a scheduled bill element as a "formula" like in Excel with some
functions like

"=-ProjectedAcctBalance(MyTxn.TransferTargetAccount,M yTxn.Date-10)"

to tell the Bill Forecaster that I want it to set the amount of the transfer
to the negative of the projected balance of the account that is the target of
the transfer as of 10 days BEFORE the transaction is scheduled for. With a
sufficiently broad grammar and function set, you could get MUCH BETTER
forecasts for many cases of bills with less work over time. (Like you could
come up with a function to better approximate the seasonality of utility
bills.) But it would certainly run 180 degrees in opposition to the desire to
dumb the product down not make it more capable and complex.

"Siggy" wrote:

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Allow the Cash Flow forecaster to know that X credit card is paid in full
each month without me having to setup a regular transaction.

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