Re:My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)
by FredPret on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:05PM
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I automated the flow of transaction -> text message -> MacOS -> Beancount once, but it never added up.
- some transactions go through without a text
- some transactions generate two identical texts
- for Forex transactions, the amount in the text and the amount on your statement will not match
- some texts are ambiguous in that they could have been generated by two different kinds of transaction; especially true of deposits & credit card payments
In the end I gave up, accepted that accounting will never be smooth & simple, and now just generate a CSV every month by hand.
- some transactions go through without a text
- some transactions generate two identical texts
- for Forex transactions, the amount in the text and the amount on your statement will not match
- some texts are ambiguous in that they could have been generated by two different kinds of transaction; especially true of deposits & credit card payments
In the end I gave up, accepted that accounting will never be smooth & simple, and now just generate a CSV every month by hand.