ledger-cli is great. It offers a powerful double-entry accounting system with all data in a plain text file. But its reliance on the command line make it not very accessible for "normal" people. This is where ledgerweb comes in: It provides an easy to use web-interface for adding entries to your ledger-file and viewing commonly used reports.

ledger-web is intended to be run as a local website (only accessible from within your home network) on a Raspberry Pi or something similar. The data is automatically synced to a cloud storage provider of your choice using rclone.

1. A device to run the service (anything from a Raspberry Pi Zero W and up should work)
2. Access to cloud storage compatible with rclone (see rclone.org for a full list). Note: you can also encrypt any supported cloud storage with rclone, which might be a good idea with sensible financial information.

If you don't want to use rclone, you can change lines 18 and 19 (sync_down and sync_up) in ledgerweb.py to something that suits your needs (e.g. rsync if you want to sync your ledger data across your local network)

1. Setup python3 with the following packages:
   • flask
   • subprocess
   • pyyaml
2. Install rclone and setup your cloud storage
3. Install ledger
4. Clone this repository
5. Customize your ledgerweb-instance by creating your own config.yaml file in the ledgerweb folder (see ch. config)
6. Run the server with python3 /path/to/ledgerweb/ledgerweb.py

The configuration of ledgerweb is done in a yaml file. Please create the file config.yaml for your own configuration. See defaultconfig.yaml for all available options and syntax.

Note: The config-file is only parsed on startup. If you change your configuration, you have to stop flask (Ctrl-C) and start it again for your changes to be effective.j