Good evening everybody, I recently built a simple web interface for GnuCash and wish to share it with you, in the hopes of receiving feedback and thougths and that it might be useful to others:
GitHub: https://github.com/joshuabach/gnucash-web Demo: https://gnucash-web-demo.bachmeier.cc I have managed all my personal finances in GnuCash for several years, including the cash I carry with me. Being able to record expenses or other transactions from my phone is therefore a major usecase to me and I imagine to many others as well. Most existing solutions are based around exporting on mobile & importing in the desktop app, which doesn't really satisfy me. There has been some activity on this topic here before, e.g. in 2012 James posted about his project "gnucash-django" [1], but I don't think much came of it (I found a few other things, check out the "Related Work" section in my README on GitHub if you are interested). Anyway, back to my project: I got the Idea to do this when I discoverd piecash [2] and quickly hacked together an MVP. After some month of using, patching and extending it I must say I am quiet happy with the result. One can browse accounts, view, add and edit transactions, and the like (see the README for a better feature list with screenshots). The setup is to use one of the database backends instead of the XML backend and hook the app up to that. I have the app running on a server (with MariaDB) and use an SSH tunnel to access the database directly with the desktop app. Whats important to me is that this stays absolutely simple. I don't want to replace the desktop app in any way (not that I could). GnuCash Web is intended as a "companion" app to record (and mayby fix) simple transactions [3] on the go, because I usually forget them until I get home. Another neat feature is a simple CLI that can be used to get new price quotes for all custom securities and currencies in the database. Using e.g. a cronjob, the price history for my commodities always stays up to date even if I don't open GnuCash for a while. Ì've been using my app personally for just over a year now and find it great. I can no longer imagine using GnuCash for my day-to-day finances without it and will probably be using (and therefore maintain it) for many years to come. Alright, thanks for reading to this point. Please do try out the demo, look at the repo or even set it up yourself. If you have any thougths, suggestions or feedback, please tell me. I'm thankful for any response. I'd be happy to engage in a discussion about this. Best regards, Joshua [1]: https://github.com/sdementen/piecash [2]: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2012-March/043762.html [3]: With "simple" transaction I mean only two splits -- J. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
