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. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/916287db-f7be-475c-8b39-4bf6e0871fe5%40googlegroups.com.
