How-to guides
Have you worked through the Hello World tutorial, and now you're ready to do more with Numscript? In this series of guides, we walk you through specific use cases to help you understand how to get the most out of Numscript and Formance Ledger.
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Before you begin on any of them, be sure that you're set up properly: Read through the prerequisites first!.
Everything you need to get started with these guides.
You can also execute Numscript with the Formance API.
Sometimes you need to split a payment across multiple sources. Learn how to do this with Numscript.
Sometimes you need to split a payment across multiple destinations. Learn how to do this with Numscript.
You can add custom metadata to transactions in Numscript, which can be made available to external services.
How does Numscript handle different currencies, and how do you specify the level of precision you need to work with?
Sometimes you need to transfer only a portion of a full transaction, for example when calculating additional fees.
To better represent your flows, it can be useful to allow overdrafts on some ledger accounts. This article explains how to do that.
Reuse the same transaction structure with Numscript templates.