We use Beancount for bookkeeping and light accounting. This repository holds various tools to help with that.

Set the OTS_BOOKKEEPING_DIR environment variable to the absolute path of the directory containing this code. Our convention is that programs using this code will locate it by examining that environment variable.

A script that runs OTS-specific checks on a Beancount file (for example, checking that the entries are in chronological order).

share_postings.py is a beancount plugin that enables you to automatically split a posting among multiple parties.

threadfin is a set of tools that make beancount easier. It consists of several subtools, all of which can be accessed via threadfin TOOLNAME. See threadfin/README.mdwn for more information.

fill-1099 is a script for arranging payment information properly on a standard U.S. 1099-MISC PDF form. The script knows the layout: you pass in the payee and payment data and it takes care of the rest.

ots-generate-1099 is an OTS-specific driver for fill-1099. Usually you would expect to be running ots-generate-1099, rather than running fill-1099 directly.