- Easily editable and processable file format based on YAML
- Modeled on transactions instead of debiting / crediting accounts
→ Support for complex transactions made up of several transfers
- Dedicated payer (from) and payee (to) fields (ledger only supports payee)
- No misuse of accounts as categories / tags
→ Direct support for tags
- Clear separation between
- Physical account (e.g. wallet, bank account)
- Entities (e.g. my mum, a company)
- Purpose of transaction (e.g. food, travel)
- No hard-coded asset / liability connotation as it is viewpoint dependent
→ Choose viewpoint by setting the owner of the journal
- Initial balances
- High precision timestamps in ISO 8601 format
- Reference external files (e.g. receipts, contracts, bank statements, …)
- Safety checks
- BigInt fractional numbers to eliminate rounding errors
- Verifies exclusive use of predefined entities
- Checks in transactions match with verification balances
- Checks that referenced external files exist
and that all external files are referenced
- Export to other formats for post-processing
- Gnuplot - For trends
- (H)ledger Format - For using (H)ledger exclusive features
- CSV and TSV - For further processing in spreadsheet software
- XLSX aka Excel - For further processing in spreadsheet software
- Multi file support