Actual Budget Integration

Thank you for the feedback! I’d love to explore an Actual Budget integration 😀

It seems that Actual Budget doesn’t expose an HTTP API …

Which means the only way is to build the integration within Actual Budget (similar to SimpleFin), and leverage Lunch Flow’s API … This will be a good opportunity to flesh out our API integration, but it does mean the build becomes a bit more involved … exciting 😀

Hey 👋

After working hard for the past few days, the first version of the import script is now available :D You can get started with a single command:

npx @lunchflow/actual-flow

Here’s a demo of how it works.

Looking forward to your feedback 😀

Update: had a chat with one of the maintainers of Actual Budget. Understandably, they had a few questions ahead of the offering of this integration. I shared all the relevant details with them, and will await their response ahead of building the integration 😀

Will keep you updated as soon as I hear back from them.

An update: the AB team shared that after a discussion, they will not be merging any new open banking providers into AB, but will rather be working on a plugin system for open banking providers, that they hope will be ready by the end of this year.

In the meantime, I'm more than happy to build an import script (like Plaid's or YNAB's), to import accounts and transactions from Lunch Flow, let me know if you would find that valuable. You can also already export from Lunch Flow to csv or OFX files, or use the API, and import those to AB.