Guillaume
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Thanks for the suggestion! Have you taken a look at the monthly PDF export for groups on the website? The csv export is meant as a simple summary, not something that would include lots of details.
Marshall
An error occurred while saving the comment Guillaume supported this idea ·An error occurred while saving the comment Guillaume commentedIn the API and CSV export, transactions don't have as much detail as what I enter in the app/webapp. It makes sense because there are a lot of entry options. Yet currently this means from the CSV/API I can't tell how much I paid for a given thing.
For example if A and B buy food together where A pays $5 and B pays $15 and they want to share the costs equally, the resulting CSV entry will say "cost: $20, A: $-5, B: $5". If instead B pays $20 and they split it so that A owes $5 and B owes $15, then we get also "cost: $20, A: $-5, B: $5". So I can't tell how much A and B each actually paid from the CSV entry. But I would like to know this for my own accounts.
Could you pleas eadd more info to the API and/or CSV so that we can distinguish those two cases?
Here's a potential solution: distinguish the inputs and outputs to each transaction. For the first example, it would look like "cost: $20, A paid: $5, A owes: $-10, B paid: $15, B owes: $-10". For the second, "cost: $20, A paid: $0, A owes: $-5, B paid: $20, B owes: $-15".
Thank you!
The PDF export is unfortunately not sufficient, because data can't be extracted from it. I need an export that contains the data I need and also can be read by a program or a script. The CSV export is almost enough but misses some things.