Martijn, Some banks allow GnuCash to use the OFXDirectConnect process to download transactions directly into GnuCash via a process called Aqbanking which is built into GnuCash but requires setting up with information from your bank.
Not all banks will allow this, particularly from open source programs as they fear security information being exposed and will only allow software which has a licencing agreement with them. I am not sure the risk to them is that real but they control the situation. Nearly all banks through their on-line web interface will allow you to download files with transactional information often in a variety of formats which may include some of: OFX; CSV; QIF; QFX; DTAUS; MT940; MT942 which can all be imported by GnuCash. The first two are open formats while the rest are usually proprietary and the format may or may not be published). QFX is a proprietary version of OFX. GnuCash uses a libofx library to provide its OFX support which supports v1.6 (SGML) and v2.2(XML) of the OFX standard but at present libofx can't detect which of these formats a downloaded file may be compliant with (under development). Most banks currently use the OFX v1.6 data formats but some are starting to shift to using the V2.2 formats which can cause problems downloading data from them. This mainly appears to be with header information so it may be possible to preprocess the files to edit header information into the correct format before importing (still an open question). Some banks also do not implement the OFX standard correctly which can cause similar problems (they will often correct this if their non-compliance is pointed out to them). File importing is discussed in the GnuCash Help manual and Tutorial and Concepts Guide in the documentation. David. ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
