Formance Ledger (fka Numary) is a programmable financial ledger that provides a foundation for money-moving applications. The ledger provides atomic multi-postings transactions and is programmable in Numscript, a built-in language dedicated to money movements. It will shine for apps that require a lot of custom, money-moving code, e.g:
- E-commerce with complex payments flows, payments splitting, such as marketplaces
- Company-issued currencies systems, e.g. Twitch Bits
- In-game currencies, inventories and trading systems, e.g. Fortnite V-Bucks
- Payment gateways using non-standard assets, e.g. learning credits
- Local currencies and complementary finance
Formance Ledger works as a standalone binary, the latest of which can be downloaded from the releases page. You can move the binary to any executable path, such as to /usr/local/bin. Installations using brew, apt, yum or docker are also available.
numary server start
# Submit a first transaction
echo "
send [USD/2 599] (
source = @world
destination = @payments:001
)
send [USD/2 599] (
source = @payments:001
destination = @rides:0234
)
send [USD/2 599] (
source = @rides:0234
destination = {
85/100 to @drivers:042
15/100 to @platform:fees
}
)
" > example.num
numary exec quickstart example.num
# Get the balances of drivers:042
curl -X GET http://localhost:3068/quickstart/accounts/drivers:042
# List transactions
curl -X GET http://localhost:3068/quickstart/transactionsYou can find the complete Numary documentation at docs.formance.com
A simple dashboard is built in the ledger binary, to make it easier to visualize transactions. It can be started with:
numary ui
Alternatively, you can use the dashboard by heading to control.formance.com which provides a hosted version that can connect to any ledger instance.
We keep an open roadmap of the upcoming releases and features here.
If you need help, want to show us what you built or just hang out and chat about ledgers you are more than welcome on our Discord - looking forward to see you there!
Want to give a shot to the latest version? You can easily deploy a test instance with Heroku and the button below:
Want to contribute to the project? Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
We are using Task to easily lint or test the project locally. You can install it with:
go install github.com/go-task/task/v3/cmd/task@latestThen you can run task to run both the linters and the tests. You will find other tasks in the Taskfile.
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!