Re:Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager
by Larrikin on Monday May 30, 2022 @11:09PM
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Budgeting tools work best when you're checking them regularly, so you should have a basic idea of what you bought even if you lost the physical receipt.
YNAB offers the ability to split transactions over different categories so categorizing an Amazon purchase is trivial.
In the case of physical receipts you can enter them before they are synced from your credit card and YNAB does a great job matching uncleared transactions back with the cleared ones.
Paypal purchases always have the merchant attached to them, so you should be able to differentiate them regardless of the budgeting app you use.
Re:Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager
by Semaphor on Monday May 30, 2022 @11:52PM
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Oh, yeah, it is easy, that’s what I do. Sorry, I was unclear, I meant the automatic importing of transactions. If you have to go through them anyway, there does not seem to be much saved.
Re:Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager
by toyg on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @08:35AM
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Categorizing is much, much faster than having to enter the transaction manually. It's also less error-prone.
Re:Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager
by jlokier on Monday May 30, 2022 @11:07PM
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When I last did some bookkeeping of Amazon expenses, I fetched the detailed purchase history from Amazon (when available) as well as extracting data from the emails received by the person who purchased items. Similarly with some other suppliers. This undoubtedly saved on some manual data entry.
Do people just give up on granularity, or how does it work?