For the example case you posted, accounts receivable as the other poster said.
For a subset of cases where a set of transactions must add up to zero eventually, I wrote and use the zerosum <https://github.com/redstreet/beancount_reds_plugins/tree/main/beancount_reds_plugins/zerosum#readme> plugin. On Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 10:02:42 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm getting started using bean count and something that's throwing me off > is keeping track of transactions over multiple days. > > An example might be dinner with a group of friends. On the day of, I might > put my card down to pay. Over the next 1-2 days, my credit card would post, > I'd receive bonus points, and my friends might send me a Zelle with their > payments. This process would span 4-5 days. Ideally, the sum of this > process would come out to zero and I could verify this with bean count, > ensuring that all money is accounted for. I could also tag each posting > with the actual date it happened, so I can double check with my printed > statements. > > My issue with bean count as I've learned it so far is that transactions > are limited to single days. I either need to sacrifice point-in-time > accuracy to record all postings on a single day, or sacrifice easy > verifiability and recording postings as separate transactions. Right now, > I'm going with option two and linking together the separate transactions, as > the docs seem to suggest > <https://beancount.github.io/docs/beancount_language_syntax.html#links>. > This is working okay right now, but I'm having to go through my links and > manually verify them. > > I did find this proposal > <https://beancount.github.io/docs/settlement_dates_in_beancount.html> for > settlement dates, which would seem to be the solution I'm looking for. > However, it's dated back 10 years and I don't think it's been actioned > upon. > > Does anyone have advice to share on accounting for these drawn out > transactions? > > Thanks, > Yogesh > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/14f36b3e-73ae-4067-8616-70639f20d1b7n%40googlegroups.com.
