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"Firefly III" is a financial manager. It can help you keep track of expenses, income, budgets and everything in between. It even supports credit cards, shared household accounts and savings accounts! It's pretty fancy. You should use it to save and organise money.
Firefly III can be run on Heroku. Register for a free Heroku account and instantly run Firefly III on your very own cloud instance. There is also a [demo site](https://firefly-iii.nder.be) with an example financial administration already present.
To install Firefly III, you'll need a web server (preferrably on Linux) and access to the command line. Then, please read the [installation guide](https://firefly-iii.github.io/using-installing.html).
Personal financial management is pretty difficult, and everybody has their own approach to it. Some people make budgets, other people limit their cashflow by throwing away their credit cards, others try to increase their current cashflow. There are tons of ways to save and earn money.
- Firefly runs on your own server, so you are fully in control of your data. Remember, there is no such thing as "the cloud", it’s just somebody else’s computer!
Please read [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on contributing, and the process for submitting pull requests. Please check out the [code of conduct](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) as well.
We use [SemVer](http://semver.org/) for versioning. For the versions available, see [the tags](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/tags) on this repository.
### Authors
* James Cole
* Over time, [many people have contributed to Firefly III](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/graphs/contributors).
### License
This work [is licensed](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/blob/master/LICENSE) under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
If you like Firefly and if it helps you save lots of money, why not send me [a dime for every dollar saved](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=44UKUT455HUFA) (this is a joke, although the Paypal form works just fine, try it!)
