yesterday i have switched from hleder, that i have been using for over three yesrs to ledger. all because of one new flow i have to model.
me and my wife are using the same credit card, which is linked to my bank account. meaning every month i close the debt, and my wife transferres me some part of that debt.
which means when we have visited some cafe, and payed from a credit card, i will log it like that:
2025/03/08 Cafe Pupp
expenses:Food:Eating Out 508.00 CZK @@ 224.72 SEK
liabilities:shared:nordea:goldwhat i really want is to log say 35% into my wife’s liability
2025/03/08 Cafe Pupp
expenses:Food:Eating Out 508.00 CZK @@ 224.72 SEK
liabilities:shared:nordea:gold
expenses:Food:Eating Out -177.80 CZK @@ 78,65 SEK
liabilities:wife 78.65 SEKi don’t want to manually calculate that every time, so naturally i’ve reached out to automated postings.
that’s where that problem starts. hedger doesn’t support references in auto-posting rules
but ledger allows me to do this:
; transactions tagged with shared:: 35% will be shared with wife
; a - The posting’s amount; the balance of an account, without considering children.
; b - The cost of a posting; the cost of an account, without its children.
= expenses and %shared
$account (a * -tag("shared") * 0.01)
liabilities:wife (b * tag("shared") * 0.01)
equity:conversion:%(commodity(a))-%(commodity(b)):%(commodity(b)) (b * -tag("shared") * 0.01)
equity:conversion:%(commodity(a))-%(commodity(b)):%(commodity(a)) (a * tag("shared") * 0.01)
which does exactly what i want automatically if i tag transaction with new ‘shared’ tag like so:
2025/03/08 Cafe Pupp
; shared:: 35%
expenses:Food:Eating Out 508.00 CZK @@ 224.72 SEK
liabilities:shared:nordea:goldwhich is perfect.
also now with ledger i can finally properly track investment lots