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by WorldMaker 2898 days ago
I agree with others that I'm not sure what a SaaS API here helps with without a lot of existing integrations/bridges to other accounting systems, data lakes/BI systems, or at the very least a good general UX that provides even basic human-readable ledgers.

Also, as an API design it seems to leak abstractions that the client should maybe not worry about. If the goal is to help applications do proper double-entry accounting, then it should provide means to add transactions without knowing the gritty details specific to entries.

Aside: I worked on API side of double entry accounting program once, long ago. In college I was an intern on Microsoft Small Business Accounting (which was renamed/rebranded towards the end of while I was there to Office Accounting). It's a shame that product was cancelled, as it was good product with proper double-entry, good reports, and a great API (even despite my major attempted improvements never making it into the product before it was cancelled ;).

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Hi WorldMaker, thanks so much for taking a look at Amatino. It's very humbling to know that someone with your experience has critiqued my work!
It was only six months experience directly related to this field, for what little that it is worth. :) I wish you better luck than the project I had worked on. Accounting is a tough field to compete in, because everyone thinks they can do it on the back of napkins or in Excel, up until they have to pay a CPA to tell them everything that they did wrong.