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.
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.