beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files

Description

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.

Documentation

Documentation can be read at:

https://beancount.github.io/docs/

Documentation authoring happens on Google Docs, where you can contribute by requesting access or commenting on individual documents. An index of all source documents is available here:

http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/index

There's a mailing-list dedicated to Beancount, please post questions there, so others can share in the responses. More general discussions about command-line accounting also occur on the Ledger mailing-list so you might be interested in that group as well.

Download & Installation

You can obtain the source code from the official Git repository on Github:

https://github.com/beancount/beancount/

See the Installing Beancount document for more details.

Versions

There are three versions

• Version 3 (branch master): The in-development next version of Beancount since June 2020. This is unstable and you want to use version 2 below. The scope of changes is described in this document.
• Version 2 (branch v2): The current stable version of Beancount, in maintenance mode as of July 2020. This was a complete rewrite of the first version, which introduced a number of constraints and a new grammar and much more. Use this now.
• Version 1 (branch v1): The original version of Beancount. Development on this version halted in 2013. This initial version was intended to be similar to and partially compatible with Ledger. Do not use this.

Filing Bugs

Tickets can be filed at on the Github project page:

https://github.com/beancount/beancount/issues

Copyright and License

Copyright (C) 2007-2020 Martin Blais. All Rights Reserved.

This code is distributed under the terms of the "GNU GPLv2 only". See COPYING file for details.

Author

Martin Blais <[email protected]>