# Make a journal entry recurring

Create a copy of a journal entry on a schedule, as a draft or posted on its date.

Canonical: https://demo.qixcount.com/help/accounts-and-journals/recurring-journal-entries

Who can do this: Owners, or people with *Create journal entries*; posting each one also needs *Post journal entries*

Where: Books, then Journal entries

You'll need: Advanced accounting turned on in Features; an entry made on the journal entry form

Repeat an entry such as a monthly accrual. **Journal entries** appears when Advanced accounting is turned on in **Features**.

## Make the schedule

1. Open the entry from **Journal entries**.
2. Under **Actions**, select **Make recurring**.
3. Check the copied lines under **What repeats**.
4. Enter a **Schedule name**.
5. Choose **Repeats** and **Every**, then the day in **On** for weekly or **On day** for monthly.
6. Enter a **Start date** of today or later.
7. Under **Ends**, choose **Never**, **After a number of times** or **On a date**.
8. Choose **Save as a draft** or **Post to the ledger**.
9. Check the **Person** each entry is created as. It's you, unless you're an owner and choose someone else.
10. Select **Save schedule**.

Entries created by invoices, bills and other records, closing entries and reversals don't offer **Make recurring**.

## What each entry gets

Each entry copies the description, reference and every line's account, debit, credit, memo and coding, dated on its scheduled day. Nonprofit fund coding is kept exactly.

**Post to the ledger** posts each entry on its date with the same checks as posting by hand. You need *Post journal entries* to choose it, and so does the person it runs as.

With **Post to the ledger**, a date in a closed or locked period, or past your backdating limit, fails and creates nothing. The business's owners are emailed, and the schedule still runs on its next date. With **Save as a draft**, the draft is still created on that date; the closed period or backdating limit stops it only when someone tries to post it.

An account on a line that is no longer active also makes that date fail. After 3 such failures in a row, the schedule pauses. See [Recurring invoices, bills and journal entries](https://demo.qixcount.com/help/accounts-and-journals/recurring-overview) for run history.