fortnightly schedules for recurring transactions

[danielyrovas]

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Feature Description

I'd like to set some schedules (such as a gym membership) to occur every fortnight.

Currently only monthly or weekly schedules are supported.

Additional information

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[mayswind]

It's better to use a monthly cycle if you can. Weekly and monthly cycles are straightforward and don't require users to set any additional details, while fortnightly cycle requires specifying a starting week, which I think makes it less convenient to use.

[danielyrovas]

Yeah its certainly a bit more annoying hey.

Could it be as simple as starting from the first occurrence?

e.g this could be every second wednesday

and it would first occur on the 5th, so that would mark the start of the fortnighly schedule?

[mayswind]

If your transaction occurs on the Wednesday of the second week of each month, I think ezBookkeeping can add new cycle options such as “1st week of month”, “2nd week of month”, “3rd week of month” and “4th week of month”.

[danielyrovas]

it doesn't follow the month - its the 26 odd weeks of the year

[mayswind]

@danielyrovas This goes back to my initial concern, that the user need to specify a starting week, because the definition of the first week of the year varies across different regions.

[danielyrovas]

Yeah its unfortunate that dates are so annoying. Would Start Date be able to represent the date of the first occurrence? and therefore the starting week?

[polcape]

I add a feature request: add more opetion in monthly recurrece
I have some investment that occour every 2 months and I can't schedule in ezbookkeeping

Thanks

[FEI352]

The same is true for me, with cycles of even one year or three years

[mayswind]

The same is true for me, with cycles of even one year or three years

@FEI352 see #67 (comment)

[danielyrovas]

For the longer cycles, I'd ideally have a prompt or notification that there is an expected expense to be added - its not added automatically, I'm just notified that water bill is due ~$250 for the quarter but I can edit the amount to be correct before I add the transaction. This way I can reason about projected expenses for the rest of the year. I can put in all of my salary projections & expected cost of bills/subscriptions.

[Athar42]

@mayswind Just to get that cleared and to be sure, even the occurrence each 2 or 3 months will never be implemented ? Thank you.