# Tricks and traps with membership plans

**URL:** <https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/tricks-and-traps-with-membership-plans/582>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [June 27, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/tricks-and-traps-with-membership-plans/582 "2025-06-27T14:29:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![hledgerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@hledgerfan](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/u/hledgerfan)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/tricks-and-traps-with-membership-plans/582/1 "2025-06-27T14:29:29Z")

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In this week's blog, I experience a trick/trap with my membership plan. Read about it at [https://hledgerfan.com/tricks-and-traps-with-membership-plans/](https://hledgerfan.com/tricks-and-traps-with-membership-plans/).

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**Author:** ![simonmic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.plaintextaccounting.org/simonmic/32/1_2.png) [@simonmic](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/u/simonmic)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/tricks-and-traps-with-membership-plans/582/2 "2025-06-27T18:25:02Z")

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Keep them honest @hledgerfan! Nice awareness.

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**Author:** ![sean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sean](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/u/sean)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/tricks-and-traps-with-membership-plans/582/3 "2025-07-02T19:22:47Z")

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> One thing that took very little time recently was my upgrade from hledger 1.43.1 to 1.43.2.

Have you considered running hledger from github main?

With a simple `just` script, it's easy to update to the latest code that simon has made.

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**Author:** ![hledgerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@hledgerfan](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/u/hledgerfan)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/tricks-and-traps-with-membership-plans/582/4 "2025-07-04T15:35:55Z")

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Interesting. Hadn't even occurred to me that was a possibility. Something to look into!

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**Author:** ![simonmic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.plaintextaccounting.org/simonmic/32/1_2.png) [@simonmic](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/u/simonmic)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 4:23am UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/tricks-and-traps-with-membership-plans/582/5 "2025-07-05T04:23:49Z")

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There’s also the nightly release on GitHub - not as fresh as master, but does not require a Haskell tool chain.