Importing QuickBooks Data
Craig Lanning
CraigL at Knology.net
Wed Feb 5 10:03:45 CST 2003
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 09:21, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I currently use QuickBooks (v6) for my personal finances, but would like
> > to switch to something that runs in Linux. I have just recently
> > discovered Gnu Cash. I tried v1.7.8 (Red Hat Rawhide). (I haven't
> > gotten my hands on 1.8.0, yet.) I tried to import some of my QuickBooks
> > data into Gnu Cash, but found that QuickBooks only exports IIF (Intuit
> > Interchange Format) files and Gnu Cash only imports QIF files.
> > Unfortunately, they are not the same.
> >
> > The QIF importer accepted the IIF file and acted like it was reading it,
> > but did not create any accounts. I guess the good news is that the QIF
> > importer did not choke on the IIF file. Are there any plans to add
> > support for IIF files in the near future?
> >
> > IIF appears to be a simple tab delimited format similar to that used by
> > spreadsheet software.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > P.S. I looked around the QuickBooks web site, but couldn't find any kind
> > of formal specification for the IIF. They did have a selection of
> > samples available for download as exe files :(
>
> Unfortunately there are no plans, at this point, to implement or
> support an IIF import/export. That does NOT mean that patches wont be
> accepted -- indeed patches would be wonderful. However, right now I
> know of nobody who is planning to implement it.
>
> So, I think the answer is no, there are no plans to support IIF files
> in the near future.
Bummer.
Is there any documentation on how the QIF importer works? I suspect
that there would be a lot of overlap between QIF and IIF. If I can
understand how the QIF importer works, then, as a start, I might be able
to hack something to put the IIF data into the QIF places.
Craig
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