beancount.github.io

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

Filing Bugs

Tickets can be filed at on the Github project page: https://github.com/beancount/beancount/issues.

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 blais@furius.ca