Features

• 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