beancount-reds-plugins

A collection of plugins for Beancount, software for plain text, double entry bookkeeping. See README.md in individual directories for plugin specific documentation.

Plugin list:

• autoclose_tree: automatically closes all of an account's descendants when an account is closed.
• capital_gains_classifier: rebooks capital gains into separate long and short accounts, and separate gains and losses accounts
• effective_date: enables per-posting dates (each posting in a transaction can have a different date)
• opengroup: Inserts open statements for sets of accounts based on specifiable rules.
• rename_accounts: rename arbitrary accounts on the fly (eg: move Taxes from Expenses to Income when you temporarily want to view all your Expenses except taxes)
• zerosum: find matching pairs of postings that sum up to zero. Useful in de-duplication, and tracking things such as reimbursements, rebates, etc.

Installation

pip3 install beancount-reds-plugins

Or to install the bleeding edge version from git:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/redstreet/beancount_reds_plugins

Usage

Invoke and configure a plugin by including it in your beancount source. For example, invoke the rename_accounts plugin like so:

plugin "beancount_reds_plugins.rename_accounts.rename_accounts" "{
 'Expenses:Taxes' : 'Income:Taxes',
 }"

See README.md in individual directories for how to configure each plugin.