Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-22 Thread Tomás de Almeida
Thank you Richard. Starting to learn Emacs has been on my list for a while now, so I guess this is a good chance as any! On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, 07:53 Richard Lawrence, wrote: > Tomás de Almeida writes: > > > I was thinking about doing something very simple and barebones. Akin to > > having job th

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-20 Thread Richard Lawrence
Tomás de Almeida writes: > I was thinking about doing something very simple and barebones. Akin to > having job that extracts and parses daily transaction reports from the > company's bank account into the main ledger data file. > > I imagine some of the transactions would be easy to automate as

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-18 Thread o1bigtenor
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tomás de Almeida wrote: > > Thank you very much, Federico, I will take a close look st your suggestions. > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, 10:57 federico lopez, wrote: > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/anti

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-18 Thread Tomás de Almeida
Thank you very much, Federico, I will take a close look st your suggestions. On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, 10:57 federico lopez, wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 5:46 AM federico lopez wrote: > > sorry my typo > >> tsed -f ~/path/to/script/textToLedger_sed_commands.sed $f1 > $f2 >> > > the correct l

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-18 Thread federico lopez
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 5:46 AM federico lopez wrote: sorry my typo > tsed -f ~/path/to/script/textToLedger_sed_commands.sed $f1 > $f2 > the correct line is: sed -f ~/path/to/script/textToLedger_sed_commands.sed $f1 > $f2 -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-18 Thread federico lopez
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 10:04 AM Tomás de Almeida wrote: > Thanks for your input Colin. > > I was thinking about doing something very simple and barebones. Akin to > having job that extracts and parses daily transaction reports from the > company's bank account into the main ledger data file. > >

Re: Was Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation - - - now: business management

2021-02-17 Thread Tomás de Almeida
Thank you for you advice and remarks, Fergus. In this case, cost of the tools is significant for our starting financial position, so I was searching within the free alternatives realm, and after some days of research I ended up with ledger as the strongest contender, because its minimalistic minds

Was Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation - - - now: business management

2021-02-17 Thread o1bigtenor
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 9:50 AM Fergus Cameron wrote: > > I ran a consultancy business using PTA for many years and suggest your > strategy is the wisest. Do not think to eliminate your book-keeping; > you MUST be engaged with it day-to-day. But certainly take the > monotony out of it with the t

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-17 Thread Fergus Cameron
I ran a consultancy business using PTA for many years and suggest your strategy is the wisest. Do not think to eliminate your book-keeping; you MUST be engaged with it day-to-day. But certainly take the monotony out of it with the types of automation you mention. Add the the outstanding reportin

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-17 Thread Tomás de Almeida
Thanks for your input Colin. I was thinking about doing something very simple and barebones. Akin to having job that extracts and parses daily transaction reports from the company's bank account into the main ledger data file. I imagine some of the transactions would be easy to automate as writin

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-16 Thread Colin Dean
I've got some custom code in a Sinatra app written in Ruby that's taking Stripe webhook posts, transforming them into Ledger records, and submitting them as PRs on a GitLab repo. It's slick... when it works. GitLab's "merge on successful CI build" doesn't always work and multiple open PRs turn i

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-16 Thread Tomás de Almeida
Thank you very much for your answer, Kent, that is very encouraging indeed! I will try to tackle this challenge and see how far I can go with ledger to automate our accounting. Cheers, Tomás On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, 17:15 Kent R. Spillner, wrote: > > As this been done, and if so, how feasible is it

RE: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-16 Thread Kent R. Spillner
> As this been done, and if so, how feasible is it to maintain? Yes, definitely! I've been using ledger to manage the books for my wife's small business this past year. Make sure you take the time to read Ledger's manual (https://www.ledger-cli.org/docs.html), and also browse https://plaintexta

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-16 Thread Tomás de Almeida
I saw the acronym used on plaintextaccounting.org so I assumed it was commonly used. On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, 16:34 Dániel Fancsali, wrote: > OMG! Finally we have a proper TLA for it... ;) > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 16:16, o1bigtenor wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:14 AM Tomás de Almeida >>

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-16 Thread Dániel Fancsali
OMG! Finally we have a proper TLA for it... ;) On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 16:16, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:14 AM Tomás de Almeida > wrote: > > > > Plaintext accounting. > > > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, 16:13 o1bigtenor, wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 6:40 AM Tom.PLAA >

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-16 Thread o1bigtenor
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:14 AM Tomás de Almeida wrote: > > Plaintext accounting. > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, 16:13 o1bigtenor, wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 6:40 AM Tom.PLAA wrote: >> > >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > I've recently come across ledger and the concept of PTA and I am very >>

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-16 Thread Tomás de Almeida
Plaintext accounting. On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, 16:13 o1bigtenor, wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 6:40 AM Tom.PLAA wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've recently come across ledger and the concept of PTA and I am very > intrigued. > > > > What is PTA please? > > TIA > > -- > > --- > You recei

Re: Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-16 Thread o1bigtenor
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 6:40 AM Tom.PLAA wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I've recently come across ledger and the concept of PTA and I am very > intrigued. > What is PTA please? TIA -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscri

Feasability of using ledger an co. for small business accounting automation

2021-02-16 Thread Tom.PLAA
Hello everyone, I've recently come across ledger and the concept of PTA and I amvery intrigued. As I am not an experienced programmer nor have a software engineering background, I am eager to see your opinions on how realistic it is to use ledger (or one of its brothers) to help industrialize