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A curated list of resources for Beancount, an open-source double entry bookkeeping system — ideal for plain text accounting users and Python software developers.


Plain Text Accounting

Official Resources

Books

User Interfaces

Importers

China

Germany

France

India

The Netherlands

Switzerland

UK

US

Blockchain Transactions

Misc

Exports

How to export (the "inferred" extended form of) *.beancount to other formats:

Commercial Services

  • Beancount.io: Out-of-box Beancount and Fava SaaS that you can use instantly
  • BeanHub: A modern accounting service based on Git and Beancount

Commercial Apps

Community

Editor Support

Plugins

Beancount

  • autobean.include: Includes external beancount ledgers without disabling their plugins
  • autobean.narration: Generates transaction narration from posting narration and posting narration from comments
  • autobean.share: Expense split, joint bookkeeping, and debt management for personal use cases
  • autobean.sorted: Checks that transactions are in non-descending order in each file
  • autobean.truelayer: Imports transactions from banks via TrueLayer, a bank API aggregator
  • autobean.xcheck: Cross-checks against external ledgers
  • beancount-balancechange - Checks change in balance between two dates
  • beancount-balexpr - Check balances against simple expressions combining accounts in Beancount
  • beancount-checkclosed - Automatically insert a 0 balance check for closed balance sheet accounts
  • beancount-lazy-plugins.filter_map - apply operations to group of transactions selected by Fava filters
  • beancount-lazy-plugins.valuation - track total value of the opaque fund over time
  • beangrow computes investment returns on a variety of assets
  • metadata-spray use a regex pattern to add metadata to entries
  • portfolio_allocation reports on portfolio asset allocations; useful for risk analysis and for rebalancing purposes.
  • portfolio-returns calculates money-weighted and time-weighted returns for a portfolio
  • reds capital_gains_classifier: rebooks capital gains into separate long and short accounts, and separate gains and losses accounts
  • reds effective_date: enables per-posting dates (each posting in a transaction can have a different date)
  • reds opengroup: Inserts open statements for sets of accounts based on specifiable rules.
  • reds rename_accounts: rename arbitrary accounts on the fly (eg: move Taxes from Expenses to Income when you temporarily want to view all your Expenses except taxes)
  • reds zerosum: find matching pairs of postings that sum up to zero. Useful in de-duplication, and tracking things such as reimbursements, rebates, etc.

Fava

Tools

Price Sources

Blog Posts

Discussions

Talks

Misc