Django pluggable for managing currency accounts and transactions

Question

We are writing an application that requires users to have accounts with balances in dollars and points. Is there a pluggable django app already out there that will help us?

Answer 1

There is an app called python-money. It has some code to define a MoneyField in Django models, but our initial experiments with it showed some problems so we just switched to using regular DecimalField.

DecimalField is intended for currencies and I think this is best for your case as well because it doesn't sound like you need to maintain balances in multiple currencies.

Edit: Responding to additional requirements where transactions, account management etc. are needed.

Try minibooks, especially taking notice of their Ledger models.

If this doesn't work I think you'll have to step outside of Django and try to incorporate something like OpenERP or Tryton (an OpenERP fork) into your Django app.