Online Banking
hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Thu Sep 21 06:46:48 EDT 2006
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:35:48PM -0400, David Reiser wrote:
>
> On Sep 20, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Justin F. Knotzke wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running GnuCash 2.0.1 that I compiled myself with online
> > banking
> > enabled..
> >
> > Importing QIF works like a charm..
> >
> > But I have a question regarding 'online banking'. I am in Canada
> > and
> > Quicken supports all of the Canadian banks for online banking. That
> > is to
> > say, it can connect to my bank and download all new transactions
> > from inside
> > Quicken without using a browser and downloading the QIF file.
> >
> > Is this what online banking in GnuCash attempts to do ?
>
> As Derek mentioned, yes. One limitation is that libofx doesn't have
> any payment capabilities, so you can't initiate a bill-pay
> transaction via GnuCash/AqBanking.
This might be considered a serurity feature rather than a disadvantage
by some -- a protection against straying software.
-- hendrik
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