Hey folks, I'm trying to wrap my mind around the different parts of beancount in order to automate the import of my Amazon purchases. Using their Chase card allows me to have a mapping from a credit card transaction to Amazon order id. From Amazon, I can download a csv file with all items with their order ids.
If I use an importer, then I can get the ofx file to generate transactions, but it doesn't have any other information than the transaction payee and the amount. I decided to write a plugin that takes each transaction and maps the payee to order id, so I can record this as metadata. The problem I'm hitting is that plugin transforms transactions when they are fed into tools, but does not update my beancount file. I assume this is because the beancount file is source of truth and we want it to be as immutable as possible. Am I correct in my understanding? Importer seems to be the right place to combine all the bits of data together to generate the transaction correctly from the very get go, but that means I can't use either beancount-import or beancount-reds-importers as easily. Any suggestions on how to approach solving this? Thanks in advance! Nasko P.S. Ideally, I'd integrate smart_import so I can train it on the data, since a bunch of transactions are repetitive. -- 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 on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/5d6ddfbb-5cd5-4994-b17f-fd98a2817c89n%40googlegroups.com.
