Excel, Word, Access and other software have the ability to integrate documents and data that is made available throught the internet protocol.
To have the possibility to retrieve the Banana Accounting data from other software, Banana include a web server, and a RESTful API, that can be accessed through http protocol.
When the Banana Accounting program is being installed, the "Associate Banana Accounting 9 with the AC2 file extension" option is activated by default; as a result all the accounting files will be opened with the new version.
If, when clicking directly on the file before opening the program, it should occur that the file gets opened with a previous version of Banana Accounting, this problem can be solved in the following way:
Windows:
The best way to install Banana Accounting for Linux is via the App Store for Linux: Snapcraft.
On Ubuntu, just select Ubuntu Software, search for "banana", select Banana Accounting and click on the "Install" button.
Banana can be started by giving a series of command (for a list of command and examples file see below).
Example: open a file
banana90.exe c:\temp\example.ac2
Simple transactions are the ones regarding two accounts (one Debit account and one Credit account) and entered in one single row. Each transaction has its own document number.
This dialog window allows you to install, modify settings and uninstall Banana Extensions.
Install an Extension in order to be able to use it.
To install an Extention, proceed as follows:
This feature is only available in version 7.0.4 or higher. It allows the user to obtain the Enhanced statement with groups, with all the options that are available in the Double-entry accounting.
The Enhanced statement with groups makes it possible to: