fava-envelope

A beancount fava extension to add a envelope budgeting capability to fava and beancount. It is developed as an fava plugin and CLI.

Installation via pip

python install fava-envelope

TODO

• add example file for screenshots and testing
• Add testing
• add charts

Running fava-envelope

Load the Extension

Add this to your beancount journal, and start fava as normal

2000-01-01 custom "fava-extension" "fava_envelope" "{}"

You should now see 'Envelope' in your fava window

Setting up budget

Set the budget start date

start date in the format <4 digit year>-<2 digit month>

2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "start date" "2020-01"

Set up Budget Accounts

You will need to specify the Assets and Liabilities you want included in your budget (For example ignoring Investment accounts). you can use regular expression in these statements

2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Assets:Checking"
2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Liabilities:Credit-Cards:*"

Set up mappings

By default fava-envelope will use the Assets/Liabilities/Income/Expenses buckets that are not listed in the budget accounts. this directive allows you to map them to another bucket

2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Food:*" "Expenses:Food"

Allocate money to a bucket

2020-01-31 custom "envelope" "allocate" "Expenses:Food" 100.00