bigcapital VS ledger-autosync

I came across Bigcapital and I haven't tested it out yet but I have used Paperless NGX before. Can the two integrate together?

Starting a new corporation and with that P&L balance and without having a CPA on ongoing payroll want to do a much better job at managing my P&L. Currently have done bookkeeping with a combination of CSV bank statement exports and then a manual Perl-based parser to categorize and prepare for taxes. This process has worked fairly well because there are several international accounts that need to be considered that would not be supported by something like a Mint. What I am looking for in the tool: — API integration with Plaid / common US bank / Airwallex — Ability to ingest custom CSV exports from international banks — Ability to issue and track invoices; doing that manually today — Ability to manage receipts for expenses — Mobile app support — Ability to track both a personal and corporate balance would be great — Assistance in compiling a standard profit and loss statement at year end; jurisdiction is outside of the US (offshore)_ and while there is a bookkeeping need there is no reporting need — Some degree of reporting and visualization of spending trends (low priority) — Some AI/NLP features that help with classification; I travel a lot so a lot of weird characters and non-sensical purchase names coming in that I would want to be able to build a rule set around to capture reoccurrences — Open-source would be great but not required; similar self-hosting is an option if it allows for a powerful but cheaper solution I have looked at: — https://bigcapital.ly/ — looks promising but seem in its early phase so maybe not super mature — https://moneydance.com/ — seems only work for personal — QuickBooks — would love something less mainstream

as far as the ledger-cli google groups [1] go, they seem to think it is a proper journal file. It has been fairly tested with OFX imports (https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/OFX-Import) as well bank autosync (https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync).

In fact, someone also wrote a book on this - https://leanpub.com/personal-accounting-in-ledger/

I will defer if you are indeed building your own competing tool in this space which is better, but holding to the original point of my request - maybe it will be incremental to support your format if ledger-cli format is supported today. versus not supporting any disk format (or inventing a new one).

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/ledger-cli/search?q=double%20ent...

There is also ledger and ledger-import, together with other tools like >, ledger-autosync and emacs.

If you are willing to write personal tools, the very first IME will be a way to import transactions from your bank(s) out of the formats they offer, avoid duplication, handling "history changes" (for instance debit cards in most (all?) countries appear immediately then change when the payment processors gives details to the bank) etc. That can be a nice intro/base https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync but for stocks is more complicated: much depend of your trading choices: if you do rare put/call bank export + "live" quote from Yahoo Finance might be ok, if you do day trading or scalping you need a more "near-real time" source of data, and that's are not free at least in EU (France/Italy/Sweden AFAIK), there are some SIM that offer rest APIs with various price policies...

ledger-autosync [1] tries to solve this problem, by pulling the data for you from supporting banks. If I understand things correctly, this [2] is the list of banks it can successfully pull data from.

[1] https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync