Hello, new Beancount user of a few weeks here. I'm cutting over from
Quicken as of the first of the year. The import was a lot of work but I
have fiddled my way to a beautiful 61,000 line file of converted data.
Some fixing of QIF parsers and converters, and lots of fixing my old
data. Quicken allows some real garbage!
Anyways, as I get ready to do my first import of transactions directly
into Beancount, it occurs to me that I get an email of every transaction
that occurs on my credit cards. With some email rules and cron jobs
this could potentially keep my credit card accounts perpetually up to
date on at least a daily basis if not better. And it would be verified
on a monthly basis with ending balances, etc.
Has anyone put some thought into this technique? Any roadblocks? Are
any parts of such a processing flow already built?
Some sample data from emails is below. I think account, amount,
merchant, and date is all one needs?
Example 1:
You made a $5.36 transaction
Account Visa (...1234)
Date Jan 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET
Merchant GOOGLE *SomeApp
Amount $5.36
Example 2:
Amount: $16.07
Card Ending In 4321
Merchant ETSY, INC. 718-8557955 US
Date 01/02/2024
Time 10:19 AM E
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