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#fedihelp wanted for #hledger #plaintextaccounting: when I sell a product to a customer, does accountng like that make sense or would you do otherwise?

; https://hledger.org/5-minute-quick-start.html#:~:text=type
account assets:bank ; type:C
account assets:cash ; type:C

account equity:conversion ; type:V

commodity 1.000,00 €
decimal-mark ,

account tax:e25:eue:42 ; type:L ; VAT 19%
account tax:e25:eue:12 ; type:R ; buniness revenue net

2026-05-10 rent may sale
liabilities:busi:prod_a:cust_23 23 €
equity:busi:prod_a:cust_23

2026-05-11 rent may payment
asset:bank:giro:busi:prod_a:cust_23 23 €
liabilities:busi:prod_a:cust_23

2026-05-12 rent may billing/tax
asset:bank:giro:busi:prod_a:cust_23 -23 €
tax:e25:eue:42:busi:prod_a:cust_23 3,67 €
tax:e25:eue:12:busi:prod_a:cust_23

Envelope budgeting: planning ahead for known expenses by regularly putting money into pre-determined categories, or envelopes. This week I show how I’m doing that in plain text accounting, specifically, Beancount.

Medium (includes blog link) https://medium.com/@miscellaneplans/ptpl-206-plain-text-accounting-envelope-budgeting-in-beancount-8a5b49b3281b
Blog https://ellanew.com/2026/05/04/ptpl-206-beancount-envelope-budgeting
#plainTextAccounting #budgeting #plainText

Constat réel :
Il n'existe pas de logiciel de compta open source / libre en France, pour les petites structures soumises à la TVA.

Oui Dolibarr, mais soyons réalistes, c'est compliqué pour les petites structures / indé.

Quoi d'autre ?

Faites moi mentir j'adorerais ça

#comptabilité #erp #plaintextaccounting #pta #gnu #opensource

@Bebef ahso - ich verwende client-seitig kein Excel oder ähnliches.
Hab eine selbstgebaute Pipeline, welche mit Hilfe von "mlr" die exportierten CSVs normalisiert und dann basierend auf teils generierten, teils manuell definierten Regeln mit "hledger import..." meine Journals generiert.

Ich sehe also die CSVs im plain-text.

#hledger #plaintextaccounting #miller

To be clear, #ActualBudget was REALLY getting good when I left - felt like jumping ship right as it hit its stride

They've added custom reports with Excel-style formulas, a burndown chart, and the UI keeps improving. Genuinely great #opensource budgeting software

But as a #SoftwareEngineer, the scriptability of #beancount is a huge win. I can pipe data through #fzf for fuzzy account selection, write #Python scripts that understand my finances, and build weird custom tools that would be impossible in a GUI app

Sometimes you just need to "grep" your money

#plainTextAccounting #CLI #devTools #personalFinance #fava #budgeting

Made the switch from #ActualBudget to #beancount for my personal finances

The ecosystem is nice
- #fava, #beangulp for imports, #beanahead for recurring transactions, #favaCustomDashboards for charts, and #favaInvestor for portfolio tracking

Also went overboard with custom stuff:
- PDF importers with #ML payee/account prediction
- Custom linters for validation
- Forked #favaEnvelope for envelope budgeting
- #Makefile with 28 targets for price fetching to #FIRE calcs

#plainTextAccounting is great when you can just write #Python to solve your edge cases

#personalFinance #doubleEntryAccounting #CLI #fintech #devlife

Made the switch from #ActualBudget to #beancount for my personal finances

The ecosystem is nice
- #fava, #beangulp for imports, #beanahead for recurring transactions, #favaCustomDashboards for charts, and #favaInvestor for portfolio tracking

Also went overboard with custom stuff:
- PDF importers with #ML payee/account prediction
- Custom linters for validation
- Forked #favaEnvelope for envelope budgeting
- #Makefile with 28 targets for price fetching to #FIRE calcs

#plainTextAccounting is great when you can just write #Python to solve your edge cases

#personalFinance #doubleEntryAccounting #CLI #fintech #devlife

Made the switch from #ActualBudget to #beancount for my personal finances

The ecosystem is nice
- #fava, #beangulp for imports, #beanahead for recurring transactions, #favaCustomDashboards for charts, and #favaInvestor for portfolio tracking

Also went overboard with custom stuff:
- PDF importers with #ML payee/account prediction
- Custom linters for validation
- Forked #favaEnvelope for envelope budgeting
- #Makefile with 28 targets for price fetching to #FIRE calcs

#plainTextAccounting is great when you can just write #Python to solve your edge cases

#personalFinance #doubleEntryAccounting #CLI #fintech #devlife

Made the switch from #ActualBudget to #beancount for my personal finances

The ecosystem is nice
- #fava, #beangulp for imports, #beanahead for recurring transactions, #favaCustomDashboards for charts, and #favaInvestor for portfolio tracking

Also went overboard with custom stuff:
- PDF importers with #ML payee/account prediction
- Custom linters for validation
- Forked #favaEnvelope for envelope budgeting
- #Makefile with 28 targets for price fetching to #FIRE calcs

#plainTextAccounting is great when you can just write #Python to solve your edge cases

#personalFinance #doubleEntryAccounting #CLI #fintech #devlife

Made the switch from #ActualBudget to #beancount for my personal finances

The ecosystem is nice
- #fava, #beangulp for imports, #beanahead for recurring transactions, #favaCustomDashboards for charts, and #favaInvestor for portfolio tracking

Also went overboard with custom stuff:
- PDF importers with #ML payee/account prediction
- Custom linters for validation
- Forked #favaEnvelope for envelope budgeting
- #Makefile with 28 targets for price fetching to #FIRE calcs

#plainTextAccounting is great when you can just write #Python to solve your edge cases

#personalFinance #doubleEntryAccounting #CLI #fintech #devlife

If you handle your #plaintextaccounting using either #vim or #neovim based on either #ledgercli or #hledger then be sure to update your plugins! The vim-ledger plugin got some much needed love in the last 48 hours with a lot of rough edges smoothed over and a few new features.

https://github.com/ledger/vim-ledger/releases/tag/v1.3.0

If you're a #beancount peep then carry on as before. If you do #bookkeeping without PTA at all then what are you even waiting for? If you use #emacs then this post is in another castle.

This was a lot of work, so I'm putting it out there in case someone else finds it useful:

new docs describing #OpenCollective's #csv, and #hledger rules for converting it.

https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/examples/csv/other/opencollective

#plaintextaccounting

This was a lot of work, so I'm putting it out there in case someone else finds it useful:

new docs describing #OpenCollective's #csv, and #hledger rules for converting it.

https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/examples/csv/other/opencollective

#plaintextaccounting

https://joyful.com/Lot+tracking+in+PTA

Tracking investment lots is often necessary to calculate capital gains accurately and to comply with tax law. It's a tricky, increasingly widespread bookkeeping need. This page aims to be a useful guide to the topic, for PTA users and PTA developers.

#plaintextaccounting
#hledger
#ledgercli
#beancount
#bookkeeping