Django Hordak

Django Hordak is the core functionality of a double entry accounting system. It provides thoroughly tested core models with relational integrity constrains to ensure consistency.

Hordak also includes a basic accounting interface. This should allow you to get up-and-running quickly. However, the expectation is that you will either heavily build on this example or use one of the interfaces detailed below.

Interfaces which build on Hordak include:

  • battlecat – General purpose accounting interface (work in progress)

  • swiftwind – Accounting for communal households (work in progress)

Requirements

Hordak is tested against:

  • Django 4.2, 5.0

  • Python >= 3.8

  • Postgres >= 9.5, and with partial support for MariaDB >= 10.5 (MySQL >= 8.0)

Other databases (e.g. SQLite) are unsupported. This is due to the database constraints we apply to ensure data integrity.

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Current limitations

Django Hordak currently does not guarantee sequential primary keys of database entities. IDs are created using regular Postgres sequences, and as a result IDs may skip numbers in certain circumstances. This may conflict with regulatory and audit requirements for some projects. This is an area for future work (1, 2, 3, 4).

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