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Ledger
I’ve been using beancount for almost 1.5 years now, and other than having to explicitly open accounts I love it! I use the fava UI to have all the nice modern visuals: https://beancount.github.io/fava/
- Kiadasok/Bevetelek
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Recommendations for easy financial management
I used Beancount + Fava for a web UI for years. It stores everything in plaintext files, but the downside is you either have to manually enter everything or probably write a script to import csv/qfx from your bank(s).
- Finanse domowe
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Trying to get started...
I suggest you take a look at fava. I don't think its data entry is good for you but the data visualization is pretty great.
- What's your recommended budgeting app? (2023)
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I'm looking for a software to visualize how much money I have
And the following are interfaces of Beancount: Fava, a well-known UI
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Personal budgeting apps
If you’re tech savvy, you could try beancount + fava web interface. https://beancount.github.io/fava/
- Verwendet ihr Apps um eure ausgaben zu tracken?
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Any privacy oriented budgeting apps?
I use Beancount myself (heavily supported by custom scripts). Plain text accounting options are not very user-friendly out of the box in my opinion. Beancount has a self-hosted web app called Fava that's good if you want a GUI. I believe there is something similar for ledger.
beancount-import
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Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
Fighting with Mint and categorizing Amazon purchases was what initially pushed me down the path into plain text accounting (PTA).
I ended up long down the rabbit hole with auto-downloading Amazon orders (originally with https://github.com/jbms/finance-dl, but then my own custom scraping) and importing and matching them up with credit card transactions using beancount-import (https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import).
This ultimately resulted in me spending a lot less on Amazon - to the point that now doing it manually wouldn't be too bad...
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Beancount getting started - how to
I personally started with beancount-import to process QFX/OFX files from my bank. It's a nice product, because it automatically joins both sides of a transaction for transfers/payments from one bank to another, and has some auto-categorization features. But it does take some work to understand and get running.
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Dealing with existing entries in beancount-import
Some skimming of the OFX import code indicates that the importer manages the duplicate detection itself. Since it looks like you need to pretty much write a CSV importer yourself, you'd probably have to manage the uniqueness using some identifier from the CSV file.
- Beancount-import, additional metadata?
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Tracking prices of products
These HTML are stored in a common folder, then parsed by beancount-import using the built-in importer for Amazon Invoice HTML files from that project. The author of that project wrote/uses finance-dl to get his Amazon invoices. At one point, his download code wasn't working for me, so I wrote my own. Independently, for reasons I no longer remember.
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Trouble with setting up beancount-import
Now, I'm trying to set up the bean-import (https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import) module but i have run in to some problems.
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How do you handle the same transaction coming from multiple sources?
I handle them with Beancount and beancount-import. beancount-import identifies duplicate transactions and merges them automatically. It handles both the case where two import sources have the same transaction (e.g. your bank account/credit card situation) and the case where there's an existing manually-entered transaction that also exists in an import source.
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How do you use Beancount?
What I use a lot is https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import. Since I know a bit of python I was able tweak the importer for my bank statements. It helps a lot.
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Bank balance and the delay in transactions posting- how to solve
I use beancount-import which does a great job of allowing for multiple sources of data (including manual entries) and matching up postings from multiple sources. It helps a lot for my particular use.
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Interactive tool to match imported transactions against already existing manual entries
It's the wrong underlying toolset (beancount instead of ledger), but otherwise you're describing how beancount-import works.
What are some alternatives?
Firefly III - Firefly III: a personal finances manager
beancount - Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.
Budget App - Open source personal budgeting application
beangulp - Importers framework for Beancount
fava-review - A Fava extension to help review transactions over a series of periods.
GLPI - GLPI is a Free Asset and IT Management Software package, Data center management, ITIL Service Desk, licenses tracking and software auditing.
bean-add - A beancount transaction entry assistant (GitHub mirror)
Family Accounting Tool - Family Accounting Tool
GnuCash - GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.
Akaunting - Online Accounting Software
finance-dl - Tools for automatically downloading/scraping personal financial data.