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books
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An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
Check out this : https://github.com/frappe/books - free desktop account software.
https://github.com/frappe/erpnext - free if you host yourself or $10+ if they host it on their server. ERP Software
Both are free. And they are pretty decent.
- Can build an app but it won't serve properly
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The End of the Accounting Search
We have been working on a FOSS desktop based alternative to GNU Cash with a modern UI for the past couple of years: Frappe Books
- https://frappebooks.com
- https://github.com/frappe/books
Do check it out!
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ERPNext VS books - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 16 Jul 2022
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GnuCash
Not yet, you can add your comments here! https://github.com/frappe/books/issues/183
plaintextaccounting
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Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph
I use ledger: https://ledger-cli.org/
I believe this same plain text format is used by other tools, which you can find info about here: https://plaintextaccounting.org/ (In particular a lot of people seem to use hledger and beancount)
The ledger is written using a text editor. The purpose of the software is to add everything up, calculate the balances and make sure everything balances. I keep all of my 12 years of accounting in one file and haven't noticed any slowdown. But a real business would surely have many more accounts and may want to split files by financial year or something.
I use helper scripts to convert the data from my bank CSV downloads into ledger format. It uses machine learning to associate payees to accounts (e.g. "Tesco" gets filed to the account "Expenses:Groceries"). I haven't maintained the ML part although it works for me most of the time. In case it's useful, the code is here: https://github.com/georgek/accounts/
- Pandoc
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Ask HN: How Do You Budget?
I invite you to hang out in the https://plaintextaccounting.org/#news-discussion -> chats, we like to discuss tactics.
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Trakk: expense trakking app
My attempt at solving the same problem https://paisa.fyi. It builds on top of https://plaintextaccounting.org/ principles and is available as a CLI/Desktop App.
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Mint is shutting down, and it's pushing users toward Credit Karma
ledger, hledger, beancount: https://plaintextaccounting.org/
Gnucash
Firefly III
The plain text accounting options are by far the best if you're willing to give up automatic pretty navigation and graphing.
- Why plain text accounting over tools like excel or other accounting software, apart from version control?
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Accounting for Computer Scientists – Martin Kleppmann's Blog
Same: see also https://plaintextaccounting.org/
...the gist is "ledger.exe" (crufty-old-C-program) is the "perl" of plain-text-accounting. The implementation _is_ the specification.
"HLedger" (haskell) is the mostly-compatible ("now you have 15 standards!") which cleans up a bit of the crufty accidents and is considered more "pure" and "correct".
Mess with it for funsies, and consider using `hledger-ui` for browsing. It's really really powerful!
Specifically this part is super cool: https://ledger-cli.org/doc/ledger3.html#Commodities-and-Curr...
...and: https://ledger-cli.org/doc/ledger3.html#Currency-and-Commodi...
Implied exchange rates, arbitrary commodities/inventory. It gets into really heady territory pretty quick.
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Ask HN: Plaintext-oriented and SQLite based family office accounting solutions?
Does anyone know of in the spirit of something like plain text accounting (https://plaintextaccounting.org/) but adapted to integrate the complexities of a wealthy family? I intend to implement something myself, but was interesting if there was anything else out there.
The point would be to design something that substitutes for Addepar but with a sensibly organized sqlite db and csvs as "first class" sources of truth (and scripts to handle a variety of common functionality).
So it is really an exercise in understanding the correct architecture of various hierarchies, relationships, and categories in the context of a wealthy family.
All the major software out there just does not seem very good, have a principled handle on the fundamental and primitive relationships and operations that describe a family's financial affairs (everything done on an ad hoc basis). And because of this, entail complete data/platform lock-in.
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Ask HN: How do you manage your personal finances?
I use Beancount; learned at https://plaintextaccounting.org/.
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Please tell me the fastest way to analyze the expenses from bank statemẹnts and catẹgorise them accordingly
I use ledger (https://plaintextaccounting.org/) to manage my transactions in plain text and then generate reports. I copy/paste the transactions from pdfs received monthly in an Emacs Org file and then convert them to ledger format using ob-lc (https://github.com/jayrajput/ob-ledger-convert). There is a steep learning curve, but the results are awesome.
What are some alternatives?
GnuCash - GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.
actual - A local-first personal finance app
data-importer - The Firefly III Data Importer can import data into Firefly III
hledger-mode - An Emacs major mode for Hledger
beancount - Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.
emanote - Emanate a structured view of your plain-text notes
cometchat-sample-app-vue - Voice & Video Calling and Text Chat App for Vue (JavaScript/Web)
ynab-to-ledger - A tool to convert a YNAB-exported CSV file to a plaintext accounting ledger dat file
ERPNext - Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
reckon - Flexibly import bank account CSV files into Ledger for command-line accounting
bigcapital - 💵 Bigcapital is financial accounting with intelligent reporting for faster decision-making, an open-source alternative to Quickbooks, Xero, etc.
hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.