OSPFM stands for Open Source Personal Finance Management server.

OSPFM is the foundation for a future Software-as-a-Service finance application, named everCount.

To convert all documentation to HTML, you need the docutils tool (from the python-docutils package in some Linux distributions). Simply execute the docs-to-html.sh script in the project's root directory. Every .rst file will then have a HTML equivalent.

When you read them online on the GitHub website, these files are automatically converted.

To understand the motivation behind OSPFM, please read the manifesto in MANIFESTO.rst.

OSPFM is published under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.

OSPFM is a multi-users personal finance "backend" application, hosting the "intelligence" for any number of frontend client applications.

User management is not a part of OSPFM. The frontend clients don't have to be licensed under the AGPL license.

Short list of prerequisite for OSPFM:

• Python 2.7 or newer (some parts will not work with Python up to 2.6)
• Flask (Debian package python-flask)
• SQLAlchemy 0.7 or newer (Debian package python-sqlalchemy)
• Flask-SQLAlchemy (pip install flask-sqlalchemy)
• SimpleJSON 2.6 or newer (Debian package python-simplejson)
• a SQL database system compatible with SQLAlchemy