GnuCash VS hledger-flow

Check out https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash

https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1794

Note the full API may be accessible via a cli interface.

The above work will be merged hopefully soon.

For the first repository, gnucash, it appears to be a C++ application. The common convention for a C++ app is to have the "main()" function inside a source file with the same name as the library, e.g. "gnucash.cpp". And sure enough, here it is. If I didn't think to guess that it was in that file, I could always just download the repository and do a CTRL-F for "main(". That would lead me to it immediately.

I also use GnuCash as accounting package (since 2008) for my business and it's great. Never had any issue with it.

https://www.gnucash.org/ https://github.com/arrobalytics/django-ledger

Been using hledger & friends for a few days now:

`2008-01-01 Opening Balance`

hledger-flow is my BFF for managing this: https://github.com/apauley/hledger-flow

I use hledger-flow [1]. It's an opinionated way of importing csvs into the hledger format. Works really well for me, just export the csvs, write a mapping and you are good to go.

It supports preprocessing the csvs if you need to clean the data or compute some new fields which is really powerful. Once you are up and running it only needs some minor updates each month to map unidentifiable transactions I can do this in under an hour these days.

[1] https://github.com/apauley/hledger-flow

I use https://github.com/apauley/hledger-flow to manage the importing/parsing. I have 20 various accounts and after a while it was just too much effort rolling my own solution.