OOPs! I keep forgetting the auto link paste function never seems to work ;>) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beancount/ThnU2SvRHt4
On Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 7:01:27 PM UTC-5, Jonathan Salles wrote: > > Apologies for the late reply, I just saw this. Anyway, this thread has > some answers and an example Martin gave me when I started several months > ago. I too needed some direct examples to understand how to do it. I > haven't tried the OFX yet, but have successfully done three CSV importers > now. Capital One Visa was the nicest, most information. (I also like > Capital One because it doesn't charge a Foreign Transaction Fee) Fidelity > Visa lacked some fields, and the CSV from my bank had "Export History for > account ..." above the column header row (top of file) which caused the CSV > parser to error. The file also had double quotes around the header fields, > and two columns of the data fields. This caused the extract not to print > anything at all. I like to enter my transactions as a stack with the > latest on top, and Martin graciously added that to the code. > > Jonathan > > On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 10:20:50 PM UTC-5, Dan Cohen wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm new to beancount; I'd like to get started. I've reviewed a lot of >> the documentation, and am ready to start ingesting transactions into my >> beancount file. I'm lost on the ingest tools. I see the logic in the >> methodology, but I need something more step by step. can someone help me >> with this? >> >> for instance, >> >> I have multiple accounts with a common bank (checking, savings, money >> market) I downloaded the CSVs and the headers include. >> BANK ID,Account Number,Account Type,Balance,Start Date,End >> Date,Transaction Type,Transaction Date,Transaction Amount,Transaction ID, >> Transaction Description >> >> And 2 credit cards account CSV files have headers: >> "Status","Date","Description","Debit","Credit" >> or >> "Status","Date","Description","Debit","Credit","Member Name" >> >> what goes in the config.import file? >> >> CONFIG = [ >> >> >> ] >> >> What is the easiest way for me to get started? Thanks, Dan >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/90ebf9c4-fcff-4d8f-b839-2b5ccb1051ac%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
