Firefly III

Your own Firefly III instance: every account, every transaction, and a budget that survives contact with the month.

Early Access

This app is a brand-new addition to ElfHosted, and is considered beta. It runs, we test it, and your trial lets you prove it fits before you commit, but our support team does not yet have deep experience with it. Expect some trial and error: lean on the upstream documentation, experiment freely, and share what you learn in Discord, where the community and team are figuring these new apps out together. If you need a battle-tested workflow today, our established apps are the safer pick.

What is Firefly III?

Firefly III is a personal finance manager with double-entry bookkeeping underneath and a friendly face on top. Record what comes in and what goes out across your accounts, set budgets per category, tell it which bills are due when, and let rules do the categorising for you. The reports then show the year you had rather than the one you remember having.

Key Features

• Accounts: Current accounts, savings, credit cards, cash and loans, in more than one currency.
• Budgets: Give each category an amount per period and watch what is left.
• Bills: Firefly III knows what is due, and tells you what it expects to leave.
• Rules: Categorise, tag and tidy transactions automatically as they are added.
• Piggy banks: Save towards a thing, with a target date and progress.
• Recurring transactions: The predictable ones are created for you on schedule.
• Reports: Income and spending over time, by category, by account, by tag.

Why Run Firefly III on ElfHosted?

Financial records are the kind of thing you want in one safe place for years. ElfHosted keeps Firefly III updated and backed up daily, and your data stays yours.

• Managed and maintained: Your instance is provisioned in minutes and kept updated. Sam, our AI helper, answers questions, and our team on Discord helps when Sam can’t.
• One dashboard: Sits alongside the rest of your ElfHosted subscription, no servers to run yourself.
• Persistent and backed up: Your data survives restarts and upgrades, with a daily backup.
• Simple subscription: One flat monthly price with a 7-day trial, cancel anytime.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I log in?
Firefly III sits behind your ElfHosted login. On your first visit, register your account in the app: the first one registered becomes the owner, and registration closes behind it.

Can I use it on my phone?
Yes, in your phone’s browser. The mobile apps and API clients that talk to Firefly III cannot reach your instance in this version, because it sits behind your ElfHosted login.

Can I import my bank statements?
The separate Firefly III Data Importer is not part of this version, so bring transactions in through the web interface for now.

Does it send email?
Yes. Firefly III mail goes out through ElfHosted from an ElfHosted address, so there is nothing for you to configure.