If you have a small and patient family, you can perhaps get away with a small griddle that can only make one pancake at a time. However, if you are running a popular restaurant feeding freshly made hot cakes to the hungry masses who have places to go to and things to do, you need large capacity commercial restaurant griddles. Similarly, if you want to set up scheduled transactions once in a while, you can do it from the account register. However, if you want to set up a large number of recurring transactions in one go, GnuCash has more robust professional grade equipment for that.

In GnuCash, there are two ways of creating scheduled transactions, from the account register or from the scheduled transactions editor. The Scheduled Transactions Editor may be faster if we have several scheduled transactions to create at once.