I know the discussion of CRM and such fizzled a bit, but this goes back to accounting directly, I believe.
I'm not so much wondering how to implement this sort of thing; but am wondering what changes would have to happen in the base application, before doing this with relative ease would be possible. I often run into situations where I have CSV financial statements provided to me by various organizations. Examples are: * PayPal provides monthly statements in CSV. * A company for which we are a reseller of many services, provides start of month billing transactions and such through CSV files. * Our bank may be able to provide CSV statements. It would be highly nice, to be able to have LSMB read in those CSV files, and take programmed actions based upon their contents. Now, of course, this would require a per-generator configuration, but once one had, for example, a PayPal configuration (macro set, what ever), it could be a snap every month to read in and reconcile a PayPal statement. (Another reason why an API separate from the UI might be desirable) I don't know how commercial apps handle such things (or if they do, although I suspect they do since most people making available CSV files, state "for easy import into your accounting software"), but if so: what do they do with them? Take QuickBooks for example... Regardless, this would be a highly useful feature or set of features. Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
