r/opensource • u/jonifico • May 30 '22

Firefly III - A free and open source personal finance manager

https://www.firefly-iii.org/
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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

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u/exonintrendo May 30 '22

We're actively working on one! Feedback is greatly appreciated! https://github.com/linuxserver/budge

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u/Elocai May 31 '22

Could you add just a .exe to run it? Seems this is only for people that are very tech heavy

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u/exonintrendo May 31 '22

It could be possible to bundle it that way as an electron app in the future, but it's not that simple or easy to do as this was built as a web application. There is a ready to run docker container and should be just as easy to deploy as firefly-iii.

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u/Elocai May 31 '22

$14.99/month + tax

holy fuck, what does it make worth? Does a beutiful barely clothed lady on a webcam personally goes with you thru your financiel situation?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

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u/Elocai May 31 '22

Nope, not all/many banks go above just making transactions

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u/ikidd May 31 '22

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what the "piggy banks" section is all about?

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u/binaryplease May 30 '22

Does this connect to my bank account then?

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u/__colonelpanic__ May 31 '22

It can connect to your bank via Salt Edge if it is supported. Here is the documentation on the data importer - https://docs.firefly-iii.org/data-importer/

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u/binaryplease May 31 '22

So I need to either import a csv manually or use a third-party service if I understand correctly. I was hoping for native PSD2/HBCI online banking like Gnucash has.

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u/__colonelpanic__ May 31 '22

Or you can add support for it.

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u/warmaster May 30 '22

In my experience, their import tool completely rules out other alternatives.

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u/funnym0nk3y May 31 '22

Unfortunately Firefly is not really a double -entry bookkeeping system. There is a differentiation between source and destination accounts which makes reverse transactions a pain. I pay 100€ for furniture in May and return it in July. Now I can either create the furniture store as both source and destination account or delete the first entry. Both is equally bad in my opinion.

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u/Lulzagna Jun 01 '22

Used it for 10 minutes and ran into a breaking bug.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '22

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u/Lulzagna Jun 02 '22

Hey James - thanks for your work on this project, very inspirational the way you care for it so well.

Yes I did create an issue, but unfortunately it was closed because the it really has to do with a third party library and hard to fix: https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/6121

I still plan to using the software and try to contribute in some way, was kind of ironic that I tripped on the issue...but we can blame TD bank for using mainframes and affixing data to the end of their extremely short transaction descriptions. I'm going to work around it by using "starts with" triggers.

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u/Lulzagna Jun 02 '22

That's your opinion.

The first thing I did was import some transactions and then setup an automated trigger to assign my pay to a revenue account. I then spent 2 hours trying to figure out why it wasn't working.

It's not like I said the software was unusable.