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And even then, these banks have manual processes to allow new API customers and there's no guarantee Firefly III would even make the cut. It would cost a lot of time and money to get registered and get the right digital certificates. To authorize yourself you will need an EDIAS compliant PSD2 digital certificate which can cost up to EUR 2000,- without tax.

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After this registration each bank must authorize you separately. Keep in mind that this process is expensive.

Such a registration is of course, impossible for Firefly III.Įach user would have to register their own Firefly III installation separately at the DNB. These authorized third parties must be registered at national financial institutes like "De Nederlandse Bank" (for the Netherlands). The integration that exists in the real world isn't really feasible for Firefly III.įirstly, the PSD2 regulation tells banks that they should open their APIs to authorized third parties. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as "PSD2 integration" or "PSD2 compliance".

Will Firefly III will be compliant with PSD2?.

Will Firefly III have PSD2 integration?.

You can contact me through GitHub by opening an issue, or use the details found on the support page. See personal finances for more information. Firefly III is geared towards predetermining your budgets, allocating funds to those budgets only and then spend it. When I built Firefly III I was over 5K in debt and this helped me pay it off in less than a year: a monthly budget routine separated from my income, fixed amounts at the start of each month, all income to the savings account.

You separate the income from the budgeting and spending process.

You don't need to budget all the money.

Two differences between zero-sum budgeting and Firefly III: If you want to create specific saving targets for the money in your savings account you use piggy banks. If you have € 2000 on your savings account you know you can go without a job for two months.Īny income you get over the month you put in your savings account directly, it doesn't need to reside on your bank account: it would only muddle your € 1000. You can now shape your budgets and try to spend even less. Now you have a monthly financial routine around 1000,. You shape a few budgets around that amount, and you start the month with € 1000 on your bank account and like 4 budgets to spend it in. What you do is, you set a monthly amount that you want to budget (aka spend), like € 1000. The only effective difference with YNAB (and other tools) is that you don't need to budget all the way to zero. When I started Firefly III zero-sum budgeting didn't really exist as a concept, at least not that I remember. In many budgeting tools you assign every coin to a budget until all your money is budgeted. Why is Firefly III not based on "zero-sum budgeting"?

There is no desktop app for Firefly III, it's all web based.

Most online tools like YNAB and Mint have another "style" of budgeting money.

GNUCash has way more "accounting" features, like mutual funds and stock and equity.

See also importing data for more information.

Importing data from your bank and doing this automatically is not that easy with Firefly III.

This is a huge difference with other financial tools.

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You must install it yourself and run it on your own server. Firefly III is self-hosted and geared towards tech-savvy users.This is a fairly complicated question, but here are some key differences that you should know about. How does it compare to YNAB, Mint, GNUCash, Excel? Keep in mind that you won't be able to share your administration.

For security reasons Firefly III opens up the registration form only for the first user, but anybody can register an account if you enable this under Administration > Configuration. Yes, there is a demo site where you can play with a sample administration. It's opinionated, which means it follows the mantras that I, the developer like. I have found a security related issue, what do I do?įirefly III is a self-hosted manager for your personal finances.I want something in Firefly III, what do I do?.Why is Firefly III not based on "zero-sum budgeting"?.How does it compare to YNAB, Mint, GNUCash, Excel?.General questions General questions Table of contents.Advanced installation Advanced installation.