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Learn about Numscript, a declarative language for modeling financial transactions, and how it simplifies describing money movements in code

intermediate Published 19 Sept 2024
Action Steps
  1. Model a payment transaction using Numscript's declarative syntax
  2. Configure a funds destination scenario with cash back using Numscript
  3. Integrate Numscript with a system-of-record or ledgering system
  4. Execute Numscript transactions on a set of payments and banking APIs
  5. Explore Numscript's applicability in various use-cases, such as marketplaces and loan management systems
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and financial engineers can benefit from using Numscript to model complex financial transactions and integrate with existing systems

Key Insight

💡 Numscript provides a concise and expressive way to model financial transactions, making it easier to describe complex money movements in code

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Learn about Numscript, a declarative language for modeling financial transactions, and how it simplifies describing money movements in code

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Numscript is a simple, declarative language that helps you model financial transactions. You can do quite a few things with it, such as modeling: * Payments involving vouchers and a user's prepaid balance * Complex funds destination scenario where the customer gets cash back * Configurable user credit balance spending transactions The main idea is to take the pain out of describing of a system dealing with money movements should behave in traditional languages such as JS/TS/Go/Ruby etc, landing an expressive way to model these movements of value. It is voluntarily broad in applicability—our customers use it today for use-cases ranging from marketplaces funds orchestration to home-grown loan management systems. Once those transactions are modeled, they are to be picked up and committed to a system-of-record, ledgering system or executed on a set of payments and banking APIs. It was initially a DSL we bundled into our Core Ledger product at Formance (YCS21) but we&#x2
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