# money A personal finance tracker built around bank statements rather than manual entry. You keep a **data directory with one folder per account**, drop statement exports into those folders, and run `money import`. Transactions are extracted and tagged by glob rules you write. ## Layout ``` ~/money/ # the data root (see "Where the data root lives") rules.toml # tag rules and transfer definitions, in order index.db # SQLite index (rebuildable; safe to delete*) checking/ account.toml # currency + which parser reads this bank's exports 2026-01.csv 2026-02.csv savings/ account.toml 2026-01.csv ``` \* Nothing lives only in the index: it is derived entirely from the statements plus rules.toml, so deleting it and re-importing gets you exactly what you had. It is a cache and nothing more, which is why it is never migrated — if a new build changes its shape, delete it and run `money import` again. ## Where the data root lives Checked in order, first one wins: 1. `--root DIR` on the command line 2. `$MONEY_ROOT` 3. the `root` key in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/money/config.toml`, which is `~/.config/money/config.toml` unless `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` says otherwise 4. `~/money` So the usual setup is to write the config file once and never pass a flag again: ```toml # ~/.config/money/config.toml root = "~/documents/finances" ``` A leading `~` is expanded and relative paths are made absolute. `money config` prints the resolved root and which of the four rules chose it. ## Install ``` go install ./cmd/money ``` Give it the package path, not `cmd/money/main.go`. Naming the file puts the go tool in file mode: it names the binary after the source file (`main`) and compiles only the files listed, which breaks the moment the package has two. ## Usage ``` money # open the TUI (default) money import # extract new transactions from every statement money import --force # re-parse statements even if unchanged money retag # re-apply rules.toml: retag, and re-pair transfers money ls --untagged # what neither a rule nor a transfer has claimed money ls --untagged --uniq # the same, one row per distinct description money ls --wide # also show type and reported balance money ls --account checking --month 2026-01 money report --month 2026-01 # spending by tag money report --sort count # ordered by number of transactions, not amount money accounts # balances money parsers # available statement parsers money config # which data root is in use, and why ``` An account folder appears in the app only once its statements have been imported — creating an `account.toml` is not enough on its own. Run `money import` (or press `i` in the TUI) after adding one. `--uniq` turns `ls` into a list of patterns still to write rather than a list of rows to read: one line per distinct description, since fifty visits to the same shop are one glob, not fifty lines. Descriptions print exactly as a glob sees them — upper-cased with whitespace collapsed — so two statements that worded the same payee differently collapse into the one row they deserve, and a pattern written from the list matches what the list showed you. ``` $ money ls --untagged --uniq DESCRIPTION INTEREST PAID KAUFLAND 4412 SOFIA LIDL SOFIA 4412 3 distinct descriptions ``` The account is not part of what makes a row distinct. A rule matches on the description and only optionally narrows to an account, so one payee seen on two accounts is still one pattern to write — and it is one row in the rule builder on `4`, which groups the same way. Pass `--account` to scope the listing instead. It composes with the other filters (`--account`, `--month`, `--search`), and `--limit` caps the rows printed, saying how many it held back. It cannot be combined with `--wide`, whose columns all belong to a single transaction. ### TUI keys | Key | Action | | --- | --- | | `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `6` `7` / `tab` | accounts · transactions · report · rule builder · rules · transfer builder · transfers | | `enter` | open the selected account (accounts view) | | `/` | filter by description | | `u` | show only untagged transactions (matched transfer legs are not among them) | | `a` | clear the account filter | | `←` `→` | move the report's period (report view) | | `s` | change how the report is sorted (report view) | | `i` | import · `r` re-apply rules · `q` quit | There is no key that tags a transaction. Tags come from `rules.toml` and nowhere else, so tagging what you are looking at means writing a rule for it on `4` — which is why that screen shows you what a glob catches before you save. ### Report (`3`) The report opens on **last month**, not on everything you have ever imported: an all-time total is the one number a spending report is least often asked for, and the month that has just ended is the last one your statements can be complete for. If you have not downloaded that month yet, the screen says the period is empty rather than quietly showing you a different one. `←` and `→` move along the time axis on the left of the totals, which runs from the widest window down to the oldest month in the index: ``` Period Tag Cur Out In Net N all time groceries EUR 10.00 0.00 -10.00 1 this year TOTAL EUR 10.00 0.00 -10.00 last 12 months last 3 months this month ▸ last month 2026-05 2026-04 ``` The three rolling windows run to the end of *this* month rather than to the last complete one — you ask for "last 3 months" to see what is happening now, and leaving out the days since the 1st would answer a different question. Each month below `last month` is a month the index actually holds; months that a named window above already covers are not repeated. The axis is hidden on a terminal too narrow for it and the totals both, where the title still names the period. `s` cycles how the rows are arranged, and the marked column heading says which one they are arranged by: `Out ▾` largest spend first (the default question a spending report answers), then `In ▾`, `Net ▾` lowest first so the biggest losses lead, `N ▾` most transactions first, and `Tag ▴` A→Z. `money report` takes the same choice as `--sort out|in|net|count|tag`. Currency is always the outer grouping and no sort changes that — there are no exchange rates here, so two currencies interleaved by amount would invite a comparison between numbers that cannot be compared. Rows that tie fall back to the tag, so they keep a fixed position rather than shuffling between reloads. The sort rearranges rows; it never changes which rows there are. The period narrows the report and only the report. The account filter (`a`, `enter`), the search (`/`) and the untagged toggle (`u`) are shared with the transaction list as before, so opening on last month does not hide the rest of the index from `2`. `money report` takes `--month` instead; there is no command-line equivalent of the wider windows. ### Rule builder (`4`) Writing rules by hand means guessing what a glob will catch. This screen shows the answer as you type: the form is on the left, and on the right the still-untagged descriptions the glob currently matches, marked `▸`, grouped by description, under a running "*n* of *m* descriptions match" count. The list narrows as you type, so what is on screen is what the rule would claim — nothing else is left there to read past. The count keeps the context the rows no longer can: *m* is everything still in view, so `2 of 7` says the glob picked two descriptions out of seven, and `0 of 7` says the glob is wrong. With the glob still empty there is nothing to filter by, and the list is every untagged description in the data — which is the other question this screen answers, and where you go looking for the next thing to write a rule for. ``` glob Untagged description ↓ N ╭────────────────────────────╮ ▸ LIDL SOFIA 4412 2 │ *LIDL* │ ▸ LIDL VARNA 9911 1 ╰────────────────────────────╯ vs. the description account ╭────────────────────────────╮ │ blank = every account │ ╰────────────────────────────╯ blank = all accounts ▸ tag ╭────────────────────────────╮ │ groceries │ ╰────────────────────────────╯ tab completes · ctrl+n: 1 more note ╭────────────────────────────╮ │ optional │ ╰────────────────────────────╯ why this rule exists 2 of 7 descriptions match ``` Only `gro` was typed in the tag field; `ceries` is the ghosted completion. `tab` / `↑↓` move between the glob, account, tag and note fields, `pgup` / `pgdn` scroll the list, and `enter` appends the rule to `rules.toml` and retags immediately, so the rows it caught disappear from the list. `esc` goes back. On a short window the form gives up its spacing and then its hints, so all four fields stay on screen. `ctrl+s` switches the list between by name and by count, most seen first — a chord rather than a letter, because every printable key belongs to the field you are typing in. The `↓` in the header says which column the order is read from. The two answer different questions: by name finds the payee you are looking at, by count finds the rule worth writing next, since one pattern claiming forty rows is worth more than the first of forty claiming one. Ties keep the alphabetical order, so the list does not reshuffle under you, and the choice lasts until you change it. The account and tag fields complete as you type: the rest of the match is ghosted in grey after the cursor, and `tab` (or `→` at the end of the line) takes it. When several candidates share the prefix, the hint under the box says how many, and `ctrl+n` / `ctrl+p` cycle through them. Nothing is committed until you accept it, so a new tag is still just typed out in full. Accounts come from the folders on disk and the index; tags from every tag in use plus any named in `rules.toml`, so a tag is completable from the moment a rule mentions it — which is what stops `groceries` acquiring a `grocery` twin. Leaving the account blank applies the rule everywhere; filling it in also narrows the preview to that account. The preview lists only transactions no existing rule has already tagged, so it answers "what is still waiting for a rule" rather than "what would this rule win". Those differ when the new rule is narrower than an existing one: a `*LIDL SOFIA*` written while `*LIDL*` is already tagging those rows previews as nothing and still takes them on save, because the more specific rule wins. Legs of a matched transfer are left out too: they are already accounted for by the definition that paired them, and the report leaves them out anyway. #### Editing a rule `e` on the rules screen (`5`) opens the selected rule in this same form with the fields filled in, and `enter` rewrites that rule where it sits instead of appending a new one. It keeps its position, since position still breaks ties between equally specific rules; `rules.toml` is edited textually, so the comments and formatting around it survive, exactly as when deleting. An edit is judged against different rows to a new rule. What the rule already claims is tagged, so none of it would be in an untagged preview and a rule that works perfectly would preview as nothing; those rows are put back, and any the new glob stops catching stays on screen marked `−`, under a "*n* no longer claimed" line, rather than quietly disappearing the way an ordinary non-match does. Narrowing `*LIDL*` to `*LIDL SOFIA*` therefore shows you the Varna branch you are about to hand back to whatever rule catches it next. The form has no `type` field, so a rule that sets one carries it through unchanged rather than losing it; it is shown under the glob as `+ type:… · kept`. Saving lands back on the rules screen with the new counts, and `esc` leaves the rule as it was. ### Rules (`5`) Every rule in file order — the order they are written in, not the order they are tried in — with the number of transactions it actually claims. Rules that claim none are marked `✗`. ``` money · rules · 5 rules · 2 match nothing # Pattern Account Tag Txns Note 1 *LIDL SOFIA* (all) groceries 3 the weekly shop 2 ✗ *LIDL* (all) shadowed 0 3 ✗ *OLD BANK NAME* (all) dead 0 closed in 2025 4 *ZARA* (all) clothes 1 5 *КАУФЛАНД* checking groceries 1 4412 is the branch ``` The count is how many transactions the rule *wins*, not how many its glob could match. Rule 2 above matches `LIDL SOFIA 4412` perfectly well, but rule 1 spells out more of it and so claims it first; with nothing else here that says `LIDL`, rule 2 is dead weight — which is the point of the screen. A rule can therefore reach zero either by matching nothing or by being shadowed, and both are worth deleting. Note that shadowing has nothing to do with the numbering: rule 2 would be just as dead written above rule 1, because precedence is decided by how specific a rule is and not by where it sits. `e` opens the selected rule in the builder to edit it, `d` deletes it, and `p` deletes every rule marked `✗` at once; both deletions ask for a `y` first. `r` recounts against what is currently in the index, which is what you want after an import has added rows; `rules.toml` itself is read at startup and whenever you save a rule from the builder, so an edit made in another window needs a restart. Editing and deleting both work on `rules.toml` textually, so your comments, ordering and formatting survive. A comment sitting directly above a deleted rule goes with it, while one separated by a blank line is treated as a section heading and left alone; an edited rule keeps its comments, since they say why it is there and changing its glob rarely changes that. ### Transfer builder (`6`) Same idea as the rule builder, for money moved between your own accounts. Both sides are named, and the preview on the right shows what the pair would be: `▸` for a movement it matches end to end, `⚠` for a leg it catches on one side and cannot pair with anything on the other. ``` from account Date Amount Movement Description ╭────────────────────────────╮ ⚠ 2026-04-01 500.00 checking → ? TRANSFER TO SAVINGS │ checking │ ▸ 2026-03-01 500.00 checking → savings TRANSFER TO SAVINGS ╰────────────────────────────╯ money leaves here ▸ from desc ╭────────────────────────────╮ │ *TO SAVINGS* │ ╰────────────────────────────╯ glob vs. the leaving leg to account ╭────────────────────────────╮ │ savings │ ╰────────────────────────────╯ money arrives here to desc ╭────────────────────────────╮ │ *FROM CHECKING* │ ╰────────────────────────────╯ glob vs. the arriving leg tolerance % ╭────────────────────────────╮ │ 0 │ ╰────────────────────────────╯ 0 = amounts must match exactly note ╭────────────────────────────╮ │ optional │ ╰────────────────────────────╯ why this transfer exists 1 pairs · 1 unpaired ``` The account fields complete exactly as the rule builder's do. `tab` / `↑↓` move between fields, `pgup` / `pgdn` scroll the list, `enter` appends the definition to `rules.toml` and re-pairs immediately, and `esc` goes back. Saving keeps both account names in place and clears the two globs, since the next transfer you write is usually the same route in the other direction. The tolerance is cleared with them: carried over silently it would loosen a route that never asked for one. Six fields need more room than the rule builder's four, so on a short window this form gives up its spacing, then its hints, then the borders on the fields you are not editing — every field stays on screen. `tolerance %` is the one field worth previewing before you save. Type a percentage and the pairs it buys appear immediately, showing both amounts — `500.00 → 495.00` — with what they cost summarised beside the counts: ``` 1 pairs · 0 unpaired · 5.00 in fees ``` A half-written definition previews too: fill in one side and its legs show up as unpaired, which is the quickest way to see that a glob is wrong before you have written the other half. ### Transfers (`7`) Every definition in file order, with what it currently pairs. ``` money · transfers · 4 definitions · 1 leg(s) unpaired # From To Pairs Unpaired Tol Note 1 ⚠ checking *TO SAVINGS* savings *FROM CHECKING* 11 1 monthly saving 2 checking *TO BROKER* traderepublic *FROM NLB* 4 0 3 checking *WIRE TO SAVINGS* savings *WIRE FROM CHECK* 2 0 1.5% the bank keeps a fee 4 ✗ checking *TO OLD BANK* savings *FROM OLD BANK* 0 0 closed in 2025 ``` The two counts mean different things, which is the point of the screen. `⚠` is a definition catching legs it cannot complete: a wrong glob on the other side, a statement not imported yet, or a movement that genuinely went missing. `✗` is a definition matching nothing at all, which is just dead weight. `Tol` is the definition's `tolerance_pct`, and it qualifies the counts beside it: row 3's two pairs were matched on slack rather than on the amount agreeing. It is blank for every definition that requires the exact amount — which is the default, so an empty column means nothing here is pairing on a mismatch. `d` deletes the selected definition and `p` deletes every `✗` one at once, both after a `y`. Definitions marked `⚠` are never pruned — they are doing something, just not finishing it, and deleting one would hide the problem rather than fix it. `r` re-pairs against what is currently in the index. ## rules.toml **The most specific rule wins**, so `*NIKOLA*` claims what it names even with a broad `*NIK*` sitting above it, and a catch-all can be written anywhere without swallowing the file. Patterns are globs (`*` and `?`) matched case-insensitively, with whitespace collapsed. Specificity is measured on what a rule spells out, in this order: 1. how many literal characters its patterns pin down — `*LIDL SOFIA*` (10) beats `*LIDL*` (4), and a bare `*` (0) is tried last of all. A rule setting both `match` and `type` has to satisfy both, so both count. 2. how few `*` it uses, the only wildcard that swallows a run of any length: `LIDL` fixes both ends where `*LIDL*` does not, so it goes first. (`?` is not counted either way: it fixes a length, not a character.) 3. whether it names an `account`, which is a narrowing the unscoped rule with the same patterns does not have. Rules that tie on all three fall back to file order, and the earlier one wins — which is what keeps appending a rule from disturbing one already written. A rule matches on `match` (the description) and `type` (the bank's own classification). Setting both is an "and": both must match. `note` is free text for you, never for the matcher: why the rule is there, or what the unrecognisable payee behind the glob actually is. It shows in the last column of the rules screen. Ordinary `#` comments still work and are preserved on delete; a `note` differs in that it survives a round trip through the tool, so the rule builder can write one and the rules screen can show it. ```toml [[rule]] tag = "groceries" match = "*LIDL*" [[rule]] tag = "salary" match = "*ACME PAYROLL*" note = "paid on the 4th; the December one lands early" # A rule can be limited to one account, and can require several patterns. [[rule]] account = "checking" tag = "rent" match = "*STANDING ORDER 4471*" [[rule]] type = "CARD_PAYMENT" match = "*LIDL*" tag = "groceries" ``` Every tag comes from this file, so a tag is never something you have to keep safe: `money retag` recomputes all of them from the current rules and is safe to run whenever you change it. A transaction no rule matches simply stays untagged, and shows up under `money ls --untagged`, the `u` view, and `(untagged)` in the report — unless it is one leg of a matched transfer, which is already spoken for and is left out of all three. ### Transfers Money moved between your own accounts is one movement the statements show twice: an outflow leaving one account and an inflow arriving in another. A `[[transfer]]` block names both legs, in the same file and with the same globs as everything else. ```toml [[transfer]] from_account = "checking" from_desc = "*TO SAVINGS*" to_account = "savings" to_desc = "*FROM CHECKING*" note = "monthly saving, usually lands the next working day" # Such movements are often only identifiable by the other side's account # number, whatever the rest of the description happens to say. Every bank # parser keeps that number in the description, so an ordinary glob finds it. [[transfer]] from_account = "checking" from_desc = "*SI56*" to_account = "traderepublic" to_desc = "*FROM NLB*" ``` All four `_account` / `_desc` keys are required; `note` and `tolerance_pct` are optional, and `note`, as on a rule, never takes part in matching. `from_desc` is matched against outflows on `from_account` and `to_desc` against inflows on `to_account`, so a definition written backwards pairs nothing. Two legs are the same movement when they match one definition and are dated no more than **5 days** apart. Within one currency they must also be the exact opposite amount, because a movement that arrives short is not obviously the same movement leaving. #### When the bank takes a fee Some routes charge, and then the two statements really do disagree: 500.00 leaves and 495.00 arrives. `tolerance_pct` says how far short (or over) the arriving leg may be, as a percentage of the leg that left: ```toml [[transfer]] from_account = "checking" from_desc = "*WIRE TO SAVINGS*" to_account = "savings" to_desc = "*WIRE FROM CHECKING*" tolerance_pct = 1.5 note = "the bank keeps a wire fee" ``` It belongs to that one definition and loosens nothing else — every other route still needs the exact amount. It defaults to 0, which is what every definition written without the key means, and it must stay under 100: at 100% any amount would pair with any other and the dates would be deciding alone. Keep it as tight as the fee actually requires. Every percent of slack is also a percent more chance of pairing two unrelated movements that happen to fall in the same five days, and where two candidates are the same number of days away the nearer amount wins. **The difference is not forgiven, it is reported.** A pair leaves the report entirely, so a fee hidden inside one would be spending that appears nowhere at all. `money report` names it on the excluded line and the TUI's report gives it its own row (see below). Across currencies there is no fee to compute — the two numbers are in different units — so a tolerance there means nothing and is ignored. **Across currencies the amount is not checked at all.** An exchange between two of your own accounts — the same money in EUR and in BGN — has two unrelated numbers, and the tool holds no exchange rates, so the dates carry the pairing on their own and the nearest one wins. That is a weaker rule than the same-currency one, deliberately: use the same route twice inside one window and it will pair the wrong two legs. The transfer builder shows both amounts for such a pair (`500.00 → 977.90`), which is the only place the rate the bank actually used appears. Definitions are evaluated in file order and each transaction belongs to at most one transfer, so — exactly as with rules — the first definition to claim a leg keeps it. **A matched pair leaves the report entirely.** Both legs go together, so a report over everything is unchanged in total by money you shuffled between your own accounts, and `money report` says what it held out, per currency and per direction — an exchange puts its two legs in different currencies, so each side reports only the leg it saw: ``` transfers excluded: 4 legs in EUR, 2000.00 out, 1500.00 in transfers excluded: 1 legs in BGN, 0.00 out, 977.90 in ``` Where a `tolerance_pct` definition let a fee through, the line says so too, and that is the number your spending is short by: ``` transfers excluded: 2 legs in EUR, 500.00 out, 495.00 in, 5.00 in fees ``` The report screen (`3`) shows the same thing under its `TOTAL`, the fee on its own row (for whichever period it is on): ``` TAG CUR OUT IN NET N groceries EUR 20.00 0.00 -20.00 1 TOTAL EUR 20.00 0.00 -20.00 (transfers) EUR 500.00 495.00 -5.00 2 ⤷ fees EUR 5.00 -5.00 1 ``` The fee is counted only for pairs whose legs are *both* in the report you are looking at, for the same reason the line counts legs and not transfers: filter to one account or one month and you usually have one side of a movement, and half a pair cannot say what the other half received. A paired leg shows as `(transfer)` in the tag column of the transaction list and of `money ls`, so it reads as accounted for rather than as a blank waiting for a rule. That label is display only — nothing writes it to the index, and it is never offered as a tag to complete against. A rule tag wins where there is one, since that is your own word for it. An *unpaired* leg is not a transfer and still counts, tagged like anything else. That is deliberate: money that left an account and cannot be shown to have arrived is exactly what you want to see, not something to quietly drop. `money import` and `money retag` report unpaired legs on stderr, and the transfers screen (`7`) shows which definition they belong to. The pairing is derived state, like the tags: it lives in the index, is recomputed wholesale by `money retag` and after every import, and disappears with the definition that made it. ## account.toml Every account folder needs one. `currency` and `parser` are required. ```toml name = "Main Checking" currency = "EUR" parser = "nlb" # minor_digits = 2 # decimal places for this currency # include = ["*.csv"] # only treat matching files as statements ``` ### Parsers Three are built in, ported from the original Python extractors. A statement layout is described in Go rather than in a table of column indexes, so there is nothing else to configure — `parser` names one of these and that is all. | `parser` | Statement | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | | `nlb` | NLB izpisek PDF | Wrapped descriptions are folded in from continuation lines, and the IBAN column is appended to the description. | | `traderepublic` | Trade Republic PDF | Handles both the single-line and the stacked layout by measuring column positions. | | `revolut` | `account-statement*.csv` | Skips non-COMPLETED rows, folds the fee into the amount. | ```toml name = "Trade Republic" currency = "EUR" parser = "traderepublic" ``` The two PDF parsers shell out to `pdftotext -layout` (poppler-utils), exactly as the Python versions did; its layout reconstruction is what makes the column-based parsing work. Amount parsing is shared and deliberately tolerant: `1.234,56`, `-45.20`, `45,20-`, `(45.20)` and `45.20 EUR` all work, whichever parser reads them. **Revolut and multiple currencies.** One export can hold several currencies, but an account here has exactly one. Rows in other currencies are skipped and reported at import. To keep them, give that currency its own account folder with its own `currency` and `minor_digits` (JPY wants `minor_digits = 0`) and put a copy or symlink of the export in it. ## Adding a parser A new bank means a new parser. Drop it in `internal/parser` and register it — no other package changes: ```go func init() { parser.Register("bankx", func(acc *config.Account) (parser.Parser, error) { return &bankXParser{digits: acc.Digits()}, nil }) } func (p *bankXParser) Parse(path string, acc *config.Account) ([]parser.RawTxn, error) { // ... return date (YYYY-MM-DD), description, and signed minor units } ``` It becomes usable by setting `parser = "bankx"` in an account.toml. Use `parser.ParseAmount` for the decimal handling rather than rolling your own. ## Balance checks Statements that report a running balance are verified on import: each balance must equal the previous one plus the transaction amount, the same check all three original scripts made. A break means a row was missed or misparsed, and is reported as a warning without stopping the import. ## Deduplication Each transaction gets a fingerprint from its date, amount, normalised description, and its ordinal among identical lines in the same statement. So two identical purchases on one day are both kept, while re-importing an overlapping statement adds nothing. Unchanged files are skipped by checksum before parsing. ## Development ``` go build ./... && go test ./... ```