ofx/qfx direct download

Levi Bard levi at bard.sytes.net
Fri May 23 13:38:21 CDT 2003


> As far as I could determine, they maintain a list of supported banks
> (stored
> in a text file).  When you select a bank from the list in the GUI, Quiken
> get's the bank ID from the file, contacts a central intuit server to get
> the
> url and necessary info ond only then contacts the banks ofx server.
>
> To work with Quicken, banks have to to be on that list.  Since all banks
> want
> to be compatible with Quicken, Intuit even goes so far as to charge them
> to
> do it.
>
> So much for open standards...

Hmm, do you think banks would have a problem with gnucash doing the same
thing?  (Without charging them a fee, of course...)

Levi



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