Extensions for Banana Accounting+

With the Advanced plan of Banana Accounting Plus, you can create self-programmed extensions. If you have programming knowledge, you can modify existing extensions or create new ones.

Introduction

By creating an Extension you can add new functionalities to the Banana Accounting Plus software:

• Create your own calculations or reports
  • Interest calculation
  • Statistics on transactions data
  • Report based on special query
• Import data from proprietary file format
  • Import data from a bank file format and automatically assign accounts.
  • Import data from an invoice software.
  • Consolidate accounting data entered with other software.
• Export data in a custom format
  • Create an Export file for the Tax authorities.
  • Export the balances of some accounts in a format ready to be published on internet or inserted in other documents.
• Check the accounting data
  • Test transactions for a particular condition; You can show the rows that didn't meet the condition in a table, or display a message with detailed information to the user.
• Modify the accounting data
  • Use the DocumentChange API to allows extensions to change the content or any open Banana Accounting file.
  • Add, modify, replace, delete and move rows and columns of any table.
  • Modify single row's fields, like for example the row's description or the transaction's exchange rate.
  • Import external data and insert new accounts as well as new transactions in one single run.

For security reasons, Banana Accounting extensions can't connect to external URLs API.

Install extensions 

In the Banana Accounting Marketplace you find many useful extensions.

• View and Install in Menu Extensions > Manage Extensions

Developing extensions

Extensions for Banana Accounting are written in Javascript and here we get the first resources that give you an idea. 

• Reference documentation
  • Extension Javascript file 
    This will show you how an extension file is structured.
    • Attributes section
  • The different Extension's types
    You can create extensions for import, preparing reports, etc.
    • General Extensions 
      For creating reports or changing data.
    • Import Extensions 
      For automatically converting a bank CSV and create accounting transactions.
  • Different Extensions Formats
    • Document Based Extensions. 
      Single file extensions saved within the accounting file in the Documents Table.
    • Single file Extensions.
      Javascript file saved locally.
    • Extension package 
      The package allows to pack many extensions together and also include different source and other resource files.  
  • Installation and running
    • Installing and Running Extensions.
  • Introduction do major topics
    • Retrieve and Modify Data
    • Display & Input
    • File, Import, Export
    • Debugging
    • Test Framework
    • Installation & Execute
• Start writing an extension.
  • Build your first File Based Extension
  • Build your first Document Based Extension
  • Extension for importing transactions from CSV
  • Extension for Creating a Report with a Table
• API Documentation
  Fully commented class documentation and examples
  • Extensions API, Namespace, Formats, Versions
  • Banana (Objects)
  • Banana.Application
  • Banana.Document (Accounting)
  • Banana.Document (Base)
  • Banana.Document.Table
  • Banana.Document.Column
  • Banana.Document.Cursor
  • Banana.Document.Row
• Developing, Testing and Debugging
  • Debugging
  • Test Framework 

Examples file

• Documents Based Extensions Tutorial
• Document Based Reports Tutorial
• Document based Import CSV
• On github.com/BananaAccounting you will find the GitHub repository for Extensions.