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Is anyone using Gnucash? I've been on a kick of streamlining my finances and want to simplify from my current spreadsheet for tracking expenses. I have seen Gnucash mentioned around and am considering it. Is it easy to use and import transactions from credit cards?

I hate manually entering each purchase because I invariably typo an amount somewhere and spend hours at the end of the month trying to figure out why I don't balance.

I've downloaded it and tried playing with it but it seems clunky. I'm wondering if it gets easier once you get past the learning curve. Thoughts/experiences?

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[–] isilv3rbull3t@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, atleast for me. then I left with a feeling of double checking the stuffs often which ended with opting in for Ledger/BeanCount as the final solution. Checkout the PlainTextAccounting sub...

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 2 years ago

Is it easy to use and import transactions from credit cards?

I wouldn't say it's easy to get set up. If you don't mind exporting transactions from your bank, and importing into Gnucash, that part isn't too difficult. I like Gnucash a lot, although I've fallen behind with keeping up with it in recent years. I was never able to figure out the online banking side of things, but that's ok. I also never used it for budgeting.

[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Tried it but I also hate the manual import and categorization. Had much better luck with Empower (formerly Personal Capital), though they're not OSS