Firefly III: An open-source personal finance manager
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Re: Firefly III: An open-source personal finance manager
#2The documentation seems really light on what I would consider the most important feature: automatic transaction importing.
Re: Firefly III: An open-source personal finance manager
#3The documentation seems really light on what I would consider the most important feature: automatic transaction importing.
Having previously used F3, there is a separate importer app that will load data from a few different formats and import it in. The kind of things you can export from your bank web site. I went so far as to script selenium to download the data from my bank, but it would constantly break because my bank did some silly things with cookies. There's not much support for any sort of automatic importing directly from your bank, which was the reason I stopped using it and went to Actual Budget, which supports SimpleFIN linking to tons and tons of different accounts. I remember there were a few different threads to get similar support in Firefly but they didn't seem to get much traction.
F3 is very cool and powerful, though it's also strongly opinionated. I used it for about a year and ultimately it didn't click for, but it really hits the spot for a lot of people.
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#4Did anyone use Firefly III and was able to import/export from and to ledger/hledger format?
Re: Firefly III: An open-source personal finance manager
#5The documentation seems really light on what I would consider the most important feature: automatic transaction importing.
Afaik the maintainer has a semi-firm position on the tool being intended for the manual import of transactions.
There is, however, the third party firefly-fints-importer[1] which I'm running without any issues.
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#6Seems only about budgeting, anyone know of something similar for investing? Mostly simple portfolio stats MoM/YoY?
I have been using a spreadsheet but it is really annoying
Re: Firefly III: An open-source personal finance manager
#7The documentation seems really light on what I would consider the most important feature: automatic transaction importing.
Afaik the maintainer has a semi-firm position on the tool being intended for the manual import of transactions. There is, however, the third party firefly-fints-importer[1] which I'm running without any issues. [1] https://github.com/bnw/firefly-iii-fints-importer
It looks like FinTS is a Euro thing? I didn’t find any of my US banks on the list of FinTs banks. Anyone know of a tool that does auto import for US banks?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Afaik the maintainer has a semi-firm position on the tool being intended for the manual import of transactions. There is, however, the third party firefly-fints-importer[1] which I'm running without any issues. [1] https://github.com/bnw/firefly-iii-fints-importer
It looks like FinTS is a Euro thing? I didn’t find any of my US banks on the list of FinTs banks. Anyone know of a tool that does auto import for US banks?
All the banks on the list linked in the repo are German so this does not seem to be an international standard.
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#9Seems only about budgeting, anyone know of something similar for investing? Mostly simple portfolio stats MoM/YoY? I have been using a spreadsheet but it is really annoying
I use GNU cash [0]and it has support for securities. I’m on my phone now and couldn’t get a direct link to the corresponding man page to work, but you should be able to find it easily if you search for “Security Editor”.
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#10wish it used sqlite instead.