Better scheduling of bills

[fnouira]

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Description

I think it would be great if we can have more possibilities to schedule a bill. Imagine we have a bill that we need to pay twice a year on fixed months. Example:

• A bill that happen each year only for June and July
• A bill that happen twice a month the 5th and the 20th Today, this is not possible using "Repeats" and "Skip"

Solution

It's maybe better to have a set comboboxes in order to get more possibilities to schedule our bills I suggest something that looks like BMC Control-M

What are alternatives?

Create many bills to cover all the periods but in this case, we do not have an overview of what was globally paied for the product.

Additional context

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[JC5]

Thanks for the suggestion!

I'll think about what I can do. Keep in mind, nobody asks for this so I can't give this much priority. I'm not a fan of the check boxes (very user unfriendly I'm afraid) but perhaps there's something nice out there to add more options.

[byt3sage]

@JC5 if you have an idea on how you want it to work, I might pick this up.

[JC5]

It also needs some db changes, i'll keep u posted if I need anything!

[JanFeld]

Actually this is quite interesting for me, too.

Checkboxes are not very userfriendly yes, but they could manage the task well. Another Idea would be a list of 'occurrences' which could be based on dates, weeks, months, etc.

This combined with some of the same capabilities in automated transactions which would pay for the related bill would take away some work from users like manually creating and managing multiple bill-instances and transactions.

[devfaz]

Maybe crontab syntax may help here?

=> https://crontab.guru/#0_0_1_6,7_*

[lvitti]

This is something interesting and necessary for me.