Tour of Tackler
Overview
Tackler is an open-source accounting tool designed for managing plain text journals. It supports double-entry bookkeeping and provides features for filtering, market value analysis, reporting, and exporting financial data.
Tackler emphasizes simplicity, reliability and integrity of the accounting journal.
Key Features
- Plain Text Journals
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Tackler uses human-readable plain text files to store financial transactions, supporting both single-file and directory-based journal structures. There are no restrictions on account or commodity names - users are free to choose the best fitting conventions. Account and commodity names support rich set of Unicode characters and languages.
- Strong Emphasis on Correctness
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The project and Tackler tool has strong focus on correctness and reliability. This includes correctness of the software but also the correctness of the journal data.
- Version Control Integration
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Journals can be stored in Git repositories, enabling collaboration, change tracking, and data integrity.
- Filtering Transactions
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Tackler provides powerful transaction filters, such as time-based filters, to extract specific subsets of data. All transaction attributes are filterable, and tackler also supports logical operators to combine several filters for complex queries.
- Market Value Analysis
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Tackler has support for multiple market value analysis modes.
- Reporting
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It generates various reports, including balance, balance group, and register reports, with customizable account selection and grouping options.
- Exporting
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Tackler supports exporting data in formats compatible with its input, such as equity and identity exports.
- Scalability
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Tackler has excellent performance characteristics, even with very large datasets. It handles large datasets efficiently, and has native support for data sharding and directory-based journal structures.
- Advanced Features
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Includes support for currencies, GIS-based accounting, and accounting auditing.