Accountancy

beancount – double-entry accounting from text files

beancount is a double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

The software is published under an open source license.

Good alternatives to beancount are ledger and hledger.

If you’re looking for a web frontend, there’s Fava. And if you need to convert ledger-based textual ledgers to beancount, check out the ledger2beancount script.

Website: beancount.github.io
Support: Documentation, Mailing List, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Martin Blais
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

beancount is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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