I've got some custom code in a Sinatra app written in Ruby that's taking Stripe webhook posts, transforming them into Ledger records, and submitting them as PRs on a GitLab repo. It's slick... when it works. GitLab's "merge on successful CI build" doesn't always work and multiple open PRs turn into a merge conflict exponential nightmare. The downside is that Stripe doesn't seem to include fee information on these posts so I have to go back into Stripe once in a while to look up fees. It's not so bad for the ~5-10 txns per month I see normally but when there are bursts of 40-50 in a month, it's another task on the procrastination pile.
Most of my "automation" is using ledger-autosync to *manually* monthly or quarterly sync CSVs, etc. I downloaded and cleaned up. I have only one financial institution in my life that provides clean CSV output, sigh. On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 7:40:30 AM UTC-5 Tom.PLAA wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've recently come across ledger and the concept of PTA and I amvery > intrigued. > > As I am not an experienced programmer nor have a software engineering > background, I am eager to see your opinions on how realistic it is to use > ledger (or one of its brothers) to help industrialize accounting and/or > book-keeping for a small business. > My idea is roughly to use ledger as the "backend" and find some way to > automate most of the data insertions - maybe by parsing bank extracts and > automating the "add" function to the main transaction data file (thinking > about using it as a single file for all book-keeping now, as suggested in > the hledger FAQ). > > My main goals for this particular task are: > > 1. Spend zero money on accounting software and use something I can > read the code of; > 2. Minimize manual transaction recording and general book-keeping > tasks; > 3. Be able to produce clean reports and export data to give to an > accountant (hoping I can strike some deal where an accountant will lower > the fees if I provide clean data and reduce their worload). > > As this been done, and if so, how feasible is it to maintain? > > Is ledger a good choice for the tasks mentioned above, or is hledger (or > another project) better suited for this? > > > Thank you for the attention, > > Tomás > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" 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/ledger-cli/cca73f98-00f3-4e73-b3eb-c85d1ea9c835n%40googlegroups.com.
