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firefly-iii
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[](https://travis-ci.org/JC5/firefly-iii)
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[](https://coveralls.io/r/JC5/firefly-iii?branch=master)
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[](https://packagist.org/packages/grumpydictator/firefly-iii)
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[](https://packagist.org/packages/grumpydictator/firefly-iii)
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[](https://packagist.org/packages/grumpydictator/firefly-iii)
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[](https://packagist.org/packages/grumpydictator/firefly-iii)
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Firefly Mark III is a new version of Firefly built upon best practices and lessons learned
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from building [Firefly](https://github.com/JC5/Firefly). It's Mark III since the original Firefly never made it outside of my
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laptop and [Firefly II](https://github.com/JC5/Firefly) is live.
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## Changes
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Firefly III will feature:
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- Double-entry bookkeeping system;
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- Better budgeting tools;
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- Better financial reporting;
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- More control over other resources outside of personal finance
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- Accounts shared with a partner (household accounts)
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- Debts
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- Credit cards
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- More robust code base (mainly for my own peace of mind);
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- More test-coverage (aka: actual test coverage);
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## More features
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- Firefly will be able to split transactions; a single purchase can be split in multiple entries, for more fine-grained control.
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- Firefly will be able to join transactions.
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- Transfers and transactions will be combined into one internal datatype which is more consistent with what you're actually doing: moving money from A to B. The fact that A or B or both are yours should not matter. And it will not, in the future.
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- The nesting of budgets, categories and beneficiaries will be removed.
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- Firefly will be able to automatically login a specified account. Although this is pretty unsafe, it removes the need for you to login to your own tool.
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## Not changed
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- Firefly will not encrypt the content of the (MySQL) tables. Old versions of Firefly had this capability but it sucks when searching, sorting and organizing entries.
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## Current state
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I barely have the basics up and running and test coverage is doing very good. I have some good ideas about user configuration and preferences which was a huge pain in the butt with the previous Firefly.
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Current problems include proper time-based navigation (how and when to switch to the next month, previous week, etc) and the best
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way to display your current financial state, which is something that still needs thinking.
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The problem is that most peoples finances are very flexible and Firefly can be pretty static. For example, did you spend all your money? Or
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do you have money left? Good question: when your rent is due at the 1st of the month Firefly might think you've spent way too much. But
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marking it as some kind of "bill" will make Firefly ignore it, but it might make Firefly forget that you've got bills coming! So there's
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a lot to do, and a lot to fix.
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If you have an idea, [let me know](https://github.com/JC5/firefly-iii/issues/new)!
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