Deploy and Host Paisa on Railway

What is Paisa?

Paisa is an open-source personal finance manager designed to help you track your investments, expenses, and financial goals. It stores all your financial data in plain text files using open standards, ensuring you always own your data. Paisa focuses on privacy, auditability, and longevity, providing tools for both budgeting and investment tracking, built upon the ledger double-entry accounting system, with a powerful graphical interface and automation features.

About Hosting Paisa

Hosting Paisa involves setting up its backend, either on your local machine, via a Docker container, or on cloud platforms like Railway. You can self-host with prebuilt binaries for Linux, MacOS, or Windows, or deploy in the cloud for greater accessibility and reliability. Deploying Paisa on Railway means you don’t have to worry about server management, scaling, or backups—Railway handles infrastructure, so you can focus on using Paisa’s features. Paisa supports integrations with third-party price fetching and import tools, and can be extended or customized to fit your workflows.

Common Use Cases

Personal budgeting & expense tracking: Monitor your spending, set budgets in categories, and gain insights into your financial habits.
Investment & portfolio tracking: Track stocks, mutual funds, or any asset class with regular price updates and analytics.
Financial goal planning: Define financial goals (like vacations or purchases) and monitor progress, with projections and reminders.

Dependencies for Paisa Hosting

Ledger: Paisa relies on the ledger accounting tool. Most prebuilt binaries have this bundled.
Database/Storage: All data is kept in plain-text journal and YAML config files—ensure persistent storage (local, Docker volume, or cloud storage).
Optional: Docker/Nix: Official Docker images and nix flakes simplify deployment.
Node.js/Go/Svelte: Required if building from source (TypeScript, Svelte, Go).

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Paisa on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Paisa on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.