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Commerce · June 5, 2018

Transity – Plain Text Accounting

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Transity – Plain Text Accounting launched on June 5, 2018 with 190 votes, #127 of 2,653 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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In plain words

Transity is a plain text accounting tool that models financial flows through transactions rather than debited or credited accounts. Written in PureScript and released under an ISC license, it uses YAML-based journal formatting that integrates easily with third-party tools. Designed as a command-line tool, Transity offers an alternative to traditional accounting software for users who prefer text-based workflows and programmatic processing of financial data.

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From the sources

TLDR: We found existing plain text accounting tools unsatisfactory, so we developed Transity . It models financial flows in terms of transactions and not debited / credited accounts. Furthermore, its journal format is based on YAML and can therefore easily be processed by 3rd party tools. It's written in PureScript and published under a ISC license . At Feram we love good CLI tools. For many tasks a CLI tool is just as good as, or even better than a GUI. CLI tools also have the advantage that their developers don't have to waste their time building and maintaining a useless GUI, but can instead use the time to improve the tool itself. One tool we've especially come to rely on is Ledger and…from feram.io

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