dccs-to-ynab

A tool for importing transactions from a DCCS CardApp account into a given YNAB budgeted account.

Installation

Using Docker

Leveraging the official docker image is the recommended way of running dccs-to-ynab.

Configure via docker

With docker installed, navigate to the directory you'd like to run dccs-to-ynab from and begin configuring it with the following command:

docker run -itv $(pwd)/config.yml:/dccs-to-ynab.yml \
  mastermel/dccs-to-ynab:latest \
  accounts create

See the rest of the setup guide below for explanation on what's expected to create an account.

Run as a service using Docker Compose

If you'd like to have dccs-to-ynab run periodically and sync your accounts, managing it with a Docker Compose is an easy way. You can use a compose file such as the following:

# docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

services:
  dccs-to-ynab:
    image: mastermel/dccs-to-ynab:latest
    container_name: dccs-to-ynab
    restart: unless-stopped

    # Uncomment the following if you're running on an ARM processor (eg. RaspberryPi)
    #platform: linux/arm64

    command: [
      "--config=/dccs-to-ynab.yml",
      "sync-loop"
    ]

    environment:
      SYNC_INTERVAL: 8h # Change this to the interval you prefer

    volumes:
      - ${PWD}/config.yml:/dccs-to-ynab.yml

Install manually via Go

Install Go 1.22 or later

You can find instructions for downloading and installing the latest version of Go at https://golang.org/doc/install

Get the app

Note: Right now there's something screwy in how go get resolves the go.bmvs.io/ynab module. It somehow installs v2.0.0, where I can only get this app to to depend on v1.3.0. The later version changes the signature for a method depended on, and thus is incompatible with this module at the moment :(

git clone https://github.com/mastermel/dccs-to-ynab.git

cd dccs-to-ynab

go install github.com/mastermel/dccs-to-ynab

Setup the accounts you want to sync

dccs-to-ynab accounts create

Or if you're running through Docker:

docker run -itv $(pwd)/config.yml:/dccs-to-ynab.yml \
  mastermel/dccs-to-ynab:latest \
  accounts create

You'll be asked for the following fields:

Name

A friendly name to identify this account by. Maybe use your own?

Enable Sync?

Whether you want to sync transactions for this account when sync is run. Use false if you want to configure this account but not sync it yet.

Date to sync from (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss)

What is the earliest timestamp you want to find DCCS transactions for? The sync command will ignore any transactions it finds earlier than this value. It will also update this value to the current time whenever sync is run.

DCCS Username

The username used to login to the desired DCCS Card App account.

DCCS Password

The password used to login to the desired DCCS Card App account.

DCCS Pay Code

The pay code associated with the DCCS Card you want to pull transactions from. For example 61212a

YNAB API Token

The complete API Token generated for the YNAB account you want to import transactions into. See https://api.youneedabudget.com for instructions on generating an API token.

Note: if the API token you provide is not valid, you will be unable to complete the account configuration.

YNAB Budget to sync to?

Granted you provided a valid API Token in the previous step, you'll be prompted with a list of budgets from the associated YNAB account. Select the one that you want to import transactions into.

YNAB Budget account to sync to?

Here you should be prompted with a list of bank accounts within the YNAB budget you selected displayed as type: Name. Select the one that you want to import transactions into.

Run the sync!

dccs-to-ynab sync

Or with Docker:

docker run -v $(pwd)/config.yml:/dccs-to-ynab.yml \
  mastermel/dccs-to-ynab:latest \
  sync

You can run this sync as often as you like and it will only import DCCS transactions created since the last time it was run.