Importing QuickBooks Data

[Craig Lanning]

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