https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514627
--- Comment #4 from [email protected] --- Thanks for the update. Then why is Quicken and a few others (e.g. Moneydance) so privileged that they are able to do automatic updates? Just curious. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Thursday, January 15th, 2026 at 8:49 PM, Brendan <[email protected]> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514627 > > Brendan [email protected] changed: > > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |[email protected] > > --- Comment #3 from Brendan [email protected] --- > > You are a little later to the party. I started using KMM 20 years ago. Back > then you could use the Map Account option to connect to many banks and > download > your transactions easily. I had about 12 accounts mapped at the peak. Every > night I would run "Update all accounts" and I would get all of the > transactions > from the 12 accounts in about 30 seconds. This was a very easy way to check to > see if any suspicious transactions occurred. You would think the banks would > support this option. > > It wasn't always perfect but one of the developers would always work with me > to > figure out what was wrong and fix it. Usually the bank was not following the > OFX spec. Many hours were spent keeping the feature working for me (thanks > Thomas). > > Over the past 10 years every bank I used stopped supporting Direct Connect (in > the US). It has been many years since it worked on any of my banks. Most > provide an OFX file that I can download and import. Hardly as convenient. One > of my main banks only provides a CSV file, which does not import as > seamlessly. > Now I download my transactions once a week and each bank takes a few minutes. > Very frustrating. > > There used to be a site where you could find the settings required for direct > connect called OFXHome.com. You could also see if your bank was working for > others. That hasn't been around for a while. > > https://web.archive.org/web/20190209122346/http://www.ofxhome.com/ > > I think Cory Doctorow explains it all in his book Enshitification. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
