On Monday, March 2, 2020 at 6:57:23 AM UTC+7, Red S wrote:
>
> Good use cases I hadn't thought of. I use my zerosum 
> <https://github.com/redstreet/beancount_plugins_redstreet/tree/master/zerosum>
>  
> plugin for some of those use cases,  but depending upon one's preference to 
> dedup their ingest, the effective_date plugin solves the same problem in a 
> different way.
>

All of my transactions are manually entered since cash payments make up 
>50% my transactions and my primary bank account & credit card don't have 
any kind of export, so zerosum doesn't fit my use case, unfortunately. But 
I can how it would work with importers. effective_date looks like exactly 
what I want for my workflow, so I'll be using it from now on.

I personally don't find that to be a problem with effective_date, because 
> the holding account is used solely by the plugin and is always eventually 
> zero barring bugs. So the only use I'd see is to uncover bugs in the 
> plugin-code. Are you seeing other use cases?
>

Probably I'm just worrying/OCD about nothing. My hold account previously 
had manual transactions in it but going forward I suppose it won't anymore, 
so the need for balance statements to catch errors is reduced.

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