Recurring transactions are transactions which will occur several times. For example, your rent may be due every month. Instead of entering your rent each month manually, you can enter it once and then tell Dollars and Cents that it recurs every month.
To do this, you use the Transaction Detail dialog box and click on the Repeat dropdown box. Select how often your transaction should repeat from the list, or select "No Repeat" if you do not want the transaction to repeat.
Once this is done, tap on the File menu, and then tap on Enter Repeating. This will make Dollars and Cents enter the repeating transactions.
It is important to understand how the transactions repeat themselves. When you initially select a transaction and set its repeat type to something other than "No Repeat" it becomes the template transaction for creating future transaction copies.
When you click on the Enter Repeating menu option, Dollars and Cents scans all transactions in all accounts to see which ones are marked as these template, or repeating tansactions. If it finds any, it checks thier date and sees if they need to be copied into the future:
In the Settings of Dollars and Cents, the default is set up to replicate the repeating transactions up to 90 days in the future.
While Dollars and Cents sees that the repeating transaction has not been copied far enough (ie: it's date is not far enough in the future) it creates a new copy. The original's date is set at the next interval, for example a month later the new copy is made as normal transaction (with no repeat option set).
This means that only the last transaction in a series of transactions is the actual repeating transaction. All the others which come before it are merely copies, and thier Repeat field is set to "No Repeat".
Think of it like this: The repeating transaction keeps moving into the future, dropping non-repeating copies like footprints int he past as it goes. It will only move as far into the future as you select in the Settings page.