OFX support

[BenoitGrégoire]

On January 19, 2003 01:12 pm, chris wrote:
> I was looking at the feature list for the upcoming release and saw that
> it support OFX.  Will the OFX support simply be importing and exporting
> of statements/transactions from a file, or will there also be an
> interface to directly download and sync statements from an online
> source?
>
> I.e., my stock broker offers a service called DirectDownload (uses
> OFX).  This doesn't let you download your statments/transactions to a
> file and place it on your hard drive, but it does allow you to download
> into an application (such as MS Money or Quicken) and then sync up the
> transaction there.
>
> Will the OFX support in GnuCash allow similar functionality?  I have
> been using 1.6.x since it was released and love it.  I think being able
> to write checks for online bill paying and synchronize statements
> directly from within GnuCash (without having to download a statement and
> then import it) would be a very valuable and widely used feature by many
> people.

I am striving to get this working, but banks are simply not cooperative in 
general, and my bank doesn't support it at all, so it will not be easy to 
debug once implemented.

All I can say is "We're working on it...".  But there are many steps left to 
be taken.
-- 
Benoit Grégoire
http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/