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Finance

Last updated: 2026

This is the home for the hledger project’s finances. (Shortcut: hledger.org/finance)

Reports

We log the hledger project’s financial transactions (those passing through our Open Collective account) and generate reports in the hledger_finance repo. There you can review our financial reports.

Money and the hledger project

Classic gift-economy FOSS communities are a beautiful and precious thing. Adding money, or adding money in the wrong way, can change or damage them. Yet, from the beginning I intended this project to be accountable, solvent and self-funding - ideally, not a money pit. And we need to be exploring new ways to integrate FOSS and money. And in many ways this project is ideal for that. So money is part of the hledger project, we welcome it, and we experiment with it, cautiously, to see what works. The CFO is SM; help is welcome.

You can Sponsor hledger to support and grow this project.

Bounties

Bounties have sometimes been offered for completing a bug fix or a new feature, or for finding or fixing regressions. Since 2026 we offer them only rarely, with clear instructions about our AI policy, to avoid attracting low-quality submissions. Here are the open bounty issues, if any.

Since 2026 we pay core developers for PR review work (50 USD/hr for now, invoiced to our Open Collective), and other reviewers whom a core developer nominates on a PR. See RULES.