Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager

Re:Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager by rco8786 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @07:30AM (#31568316)

> For example, take a trip to Walmart where you purchased things that cross like 3 or 4 categories.

I'm still waiting for the next step in these apps, where I connect my account to Walmart/Amazon/Target/etc and it can do item/category breakdowns automatically based on the actual line items in the order.

Otherwise, I am with you. I use a much simpler system without categories but I manually enter every dollar I spend right when I spend it.

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Re:Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager by yencabulator on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @05:14PM (#31575035)

It seems the companies are actively trying to avoid that.

Amazon order confirmation emails used to list the products. Now they don't. Some other company might use that information, so the user can't have it.

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Re:Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager by rco8786 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:33AM (#31596135)

Yea I think that's the big challenge. Plaid has somehow cracked this code for banking data, is it possible for someone to do it with retail data?

edit Amazon does provide an Orders API that at a glance seems like it would work for this case, but there's probably some underlying restrictions I am unaware of. https://docs.developer.amazonservices.com/en_US/orders-2013-...

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