Seeing the same issue. Scares me off of using the commodities feature. I suppose I will just do the math myself and use sub accounts.

2010/05/31 Farmer's Market
    Assets:My Larder:Apples        $  20
    Assets:My Larder:Pineapples    $  33
    Assets:My Larder:Crab Apples   $   4
    Assets:Checking                $ -57

@tdenny What issue are you seeing exactly? From your example, it doesn't look like you are using automated transactions.

@tdenny What issue are you seeing exactly? From your example, it doesn't look like you are using automated transactions.

My fault. I think I misunderstood your OP.

I'm seeing the error transaction does not balance when I used commodities in an explicit transaction. I'm fairly certain my problems are a result of trying to use floating point values on my commodities. eg. 3.77 "ground beef" @ $ 3.07.

Apologies for the noise.

@tdenny

I'm seeing the error transaction does not balance when I used commodities in an explicit transaction. I'm fairly certain my problems are a result of trying to use floating point values on my commodities. eg. 3.77 "ground beef" @ $ 3.07.

I recommend you put this directive at the top of your journal:

commodity $
  format $0,000.00
  alias USD

If you do this, then transactions will only have to balance to the nearest cent. For example:

2023-07-18 *
  freezer       3.77 "ground beef" @ $ 3.07
  bank account  $-11.57

Ledger shouldn't complain about the unbalanced $0.0039 because the format directive specifies only two decimal places. If you still have problems where there is an unbalanced penny or two, then I would recommend any of 1) adding an adjustements posting with a blank amount to soak up the residual pennies, 2) omitting the explicit $-11.57 and let ledger calculate that automatically, or 3) omitting the explicit $3.07. If you still have issues, then it's probably from a syntax mistake like a wrong whitespace.