beancount-nblock

A collection of beancount plugins.

unlinked_documents: find missing links between documents and transactions

It might be desireable to enforce a link between certain kind of documents and a corresponding transaction. Typical use cases are incoming and outgoing invoices where a receipt (referenced via a document directive) should have a matching transaction.

The following is valid, according to this plugin:

2019-01-01 * "Payee" "A description" ^ER-some-id
  Assets:Bank:Checking     300.00 EUR
  Expenses:Home

2019-01-01 document Assets:Bank:Checking "/path/to/receipt.pdf" ^ER-some-id

An error is generated in case either of the above directives is missing.

Usage

Add the following to your beancount file:

plugin "beancount_nblock.unlinked_documents"

The default list of patterns is: AR-*, ER-*. A custom list of patterns may be configured via:

plugin "beancount_nblock.unlinked_documents" "PATTERN-FOO-*,PATTERN-BAR-*

repel: avoid specific combinations of tags and accounts in a single transaction

Check for combinations of tag and account names and raise an error in case they occur together in a transaction.

Consider the tag/account pair (FOO, Assets:Checking) where FOO is a tag and Assets:Checking is an account name. The following transaction is flagged by the plugin:

2019-01-01 * "Payee" "A description" #FOO
  Assets:Checking     300.00 EUR
  Expenses:Home

Usage

Add the following to your beancount file:

plugin "beancount_nblock.repel" "PLUGIN CONFIGURATION"

where PLUGIN CONFIGURATION is a list of tag/account tuples such as "[('FOO', 'Assets:Checking')]". The tag FOO should not occur in the same transaction as the account Assets:Checking.

file_ordering: enforces strict date ordering within individual Beancount files

This Beancount plugin validates that each Beancount file that contains 2 or more transactions is strictly chronologically ordered. I.e., no transaction that occurs later in a given file (in file order) has a date that occurs earlier (in calendar order) than a previous transaction in the same file.

While Beancount by default doesn't care about file ordering of directives, ensuring in-file date ordering on transaction is a useful check to avoid certain kinds of booking errors, e.g., copy-pasting an old transaction, forgetting to bump its date.

This plugin was developed by Stefano Zacchiroli and released under GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or above. It was incorporated into this repository from https://github.com/zacchiro/beancount-plugins-zack at commit a86a50bbd7fcc6e202db35dce3ca3af0a504493c to simplify distribution and installation via pip.

Usage

Add the following to your beancount file:

plugin "beancount_nblock.file_ordering"