Importing ADP payroll extracts to Beancount

[soubra]

Hi everyone, 

I tried posting this question on reddit but I'm rarely successful getting any responses. 

Anyone here has had any luck importing ADP info into Beancount?

I am trying to get a breakdown of my corporate salary, and current firm uses ADP. 

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,

soubra

[Red S]

Long ago, I had to download data from ADP. Now, it's a different provider. Both had/have the same problem: no obvious way to export data to csv/ofx or anything other than pdf.

PDFs are a mess with automation. I use pdftotext, followed by a simple python parser/importer to get payroll data into Beancount. These days, I use Tabula based on a recommendation by Martin. The cool thing is, templates for pdfs can be saved and scripted. Now, things "just work" in automation 80% of the time once I go through the pain of downloading each paycheck separately.

I know you were looking for an ADP specific solution, but I thought I'd share my experience that it's not too much effort to cook up your own importer if you're unable to find an existing solution. Good luck!

[soubra rohlfs]

Thank you for sharing your experience. I guess you are correct, I’ll just have to deal with the pain for now.

Thanks again!

soubra

On Oct 23, 2020, at 02:26, Red S <redst...@gmail.com> wrote:



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