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Firefly III: An open-source personal finance manager

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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?

SimpleFIN is not free but it's very cheap ($1.50/mo, cheaper annually) and has an easy to integrate API. I use it with Actual Budget after giving up on Firefly III because of data import issues and it supports every financial account I have. Annoyingly several of my upstream financial institutions force me to manually reauthenticate the connection every time I want to import data, but that's my banks being stupid and otherwise it works flawlessly.

Firefly III at one point was planning to support SimpleFIN as well but it seems to have dropped off the radar. https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/5396

Re: Firefly III: An open-source personal finance manager

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I am not really interested in the product, so can't comment on that, but I want to give my 2c about logo, it gave me an uncomfortable feeling, which is not good for business. Piggy on fire is fine, I guess, but it's tail looks more like a hole with a disturbing shape.
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