Budget Expenses Entry CLI

A tool to help speed up your budgeting and expense entry using the Clack CLI framework, SQLite, and Node.js.

Getting Started

To get started, install Node.js v25 or higher. Then run:

npm install
cp .accounts.sample .accounts.json
node index.mjs

Then simply follow the prompts. Expense entry (e) is the most thorough. The .ledger.db file saves your recorded transactions between sessions.

Accounts

If you'd like to customize the account names and prompts, edit the .accounts.json file.

See Also

This tool outputs the Ledger file format. It is a double-entry accounting enging using plaintext files and a CLI tool. You can install the Ledger executable and then run e.g. a balance report using ledger -f expenses.dat bal