Pocket Ledger
Ask any veteran player what the real endgame is and you will get a knowing smile. Gold. Whether you are farming herbs in a quiet corner of Azeroth or flipping materials on the Auction House, knowing exactly where your money stands across every alt is half the battle. Pocket Ledger is a lightweight World of Warcraft addon built for exactly that job, and it does it without burying your screen in clutter.
Instead of juggling spreadsheets, browser tabs, and half-remembered totals, you get a single draggable mini bar that quietly reports what matters. Click it, and the full window opens with everything you need.
What Pocket Ledger Actually Does
At its core, this is an accounting tool for people who take their gold seriously but do not want to feel like they are doing their taxes. The feature list is short, focused, and genuinely useful during everyday play.
- Account-Wide Gold Tracking: see the gold totals of every character on your account in one place, color-coded by class so you can spot your banker alt at a glance.
- Session Summary: a running tally of how much gold you have earned or spent since you logged in, which is perfect for measuring the profit of a farming session.
- Auction House Tracking: the addon automatically scans your active auctions whenever you visit the AH, showing item details, buyout prices, and color-coded time remaining.
- Mini Bar: a small, draggable on-screen bar showing your current gold, with optional FPS, location coordinates, and XP needed with an ETA.
- Options Panel: a full in-game UI accessible through the WoW Settings menu or the /pl options command, letting you toggle sections, lock the bar, and adjust scale and coordinate precision.
- Slash Commands: /pl or /pocketledger toggles the window, with extra commands for help, resetting your session baseline, restoring defaults, and printing database diagnostics to chat.
Why the Mini Bar Wins People Over
Most gold addons are windows you open, read, and close. Pocket Ledger lives on your screen. The mini bar sits wherever you drag it, and a single click expands the full ledger. You can lock it in place through the options panel so a stray mouse drag during a raid boss fight never sends your gold counter sliding across the UI.
The optional readouts are the sleeper feature here. FPS, current location with coordinates, and XP remaining with an estimated time to level turn the bar into a compact heads-up display. Leveling an alt becomes a lot more pleasant when you can see exactly how much further you have to go.
If you would rather skip manual file management entirely, the foxygame.net launcher handles the whole process in a single click, and Pocket Ledger sits right in its addon catalog alongside automatic updates whenever a new game patch lands.
Version Compatibility Across WoW Eras
One question comes up constantly in addon discussions: will this work on my client? Pocket Ledger is designed for modern World of Warcraft Retail and is maintained against current interface versions, so it keeps working through major patches rather than breaking every content drop.
Retail First, Classic Realities
Retail players get the full experience: account-wide tracking, auction scanning, and the complete mini bar with every optional readout. The addon targets the current Retail interface and is updated as Blizzard ships new builds.
For players on Classic, TBC, WotLK, Cataclysm, and MoP realms, the situation is more nuanced. Those clients run older interface versions, and an addon built for Retail will not simply drop into a Classic installation and function. The core gold tracking concept translates well to older expansions, but you should always check whether a specific build is supported before relying on it for your auction data. Keeping separate addon folders per client is the safest habit.
How to Install Pocket Ledger
Installation is straightforward, and there are two routes depending on how hands-on you want to be.
The manual method: obtain the addon files, then place the folder inside your World of Warcraft addons directory, for example World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/PocketLedger/. The folder name must match the .toc filename exactly, so rename it to PocketLedger if needed. Restart the game or return to the character select screen, and the addon appears in your AddOns list.
The easier method: use a launcher that manages the addon directory for you. This avoids the classic mistakes of nested folders and mismatched names, and it keeps Pocket Ledger current without you thinking about it.
Getting Started In-Game
Once loaded, type /pl to open the ledger. From there, /pl help lists every command, /pl reset rebases your session gold to the current total, /pl options opens the settings panel, and /pl defaults wipes your configuration if you want a clean slate. Auction data refreshes automatically the next time you visit the Auction House.
Final Thoughts
Pocket Ledger earns its place in your addon folder by solving one problem cleanly: you always know your gold situation. It is light, it stays out of the way, and the mini bar turns passive information into something you actually use. If you have ever wondered where your gold went between raid nights, this is the addon that answers the question.