I have a need for enhanced online banking functionality and I will put out a bounty for developing this.
My goal is to be able to get *all* my banking, loan and investment info into GnuCash easily and *automatically*. GnuCash and every other personal finance app have too many limitations and frustrations related to online banking. Even Yodlee won't download data from all my banks. I was recently looking at Wesabe.com and I tried their open source (GPL 2) Firefox extension for downloading/uploading financial data. I love the Wesabe approach, and I would like to see it adapted to GnuCash. It supports more banks and it is both flexible and reasonably secure. It seems that a Firefox extension for GnuCash with the Wesabe functionality could result in a killer personal finance app. The main functionality I would like to see is described on this page at Wesabe's site: https://www.wesabe.com/help/user-manual/uploading The Firefox uploader lets you have the best of both worlds. When possible it > uses the server-to-server method. Where a bank only provides a manual > download, the Firefox uploader still has you do it manually - but only once. > Then it remembers what you did so that it can act like you, stepping through > all the same steps that you used. That makes formerly manual process > automatic from then on. Since we can automate almost any download this way, > it means that almost all banks are supported. Like the Desktop uploader, the > Firefox uploader encrypts your bank username and password and stores it on > your hard drive. > This GnuCash fork would have to have the same "macro recording" feature Wesabe developed plus the scheduling feature (for automatic operation) and it would also have to trigger an automatic (or nearly automatic) import into GnuCash. Beyond this, maybe it would be possible to give GnuCash users the option to also use Wesabe. (In other words, one download would be imported into GnuCash and also uploaded to Wesabe automatically.) I would view that (having both) as an online extension to GnuCash (as Quicken Online is to Quicken desktop software). Who is interested in this? _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
