import format - which does gnucash handle better?

[Stephen Fisher]

I just imported 3 years of checking and credit card data (about 15 
separate accounts) using QIF and all transferred flawlessly.

On Nov 3, 2003, at 8:58 PM, Benoit Grégoire wrote:

> On Monday 03 November 2003 08:12, bri wrote:
>> So my bank now allows me to download my checking and savings account
>> transactions in these formats:
>>
>> Microsoft Money (OFX) - Open Financial Exchange
>> Microsoft Money (OFC)
>> Microsoft Excel (CSV)- Comma separated values
>> Quicken (QFX) - Open Financial Exchange
>> Quicken (QIF)
>>
>> I've had quirks with qif before (transfers between the 2 accounts not
>> getting automatically resolved as duplicates..) so I'll probably make
>> copies of my books and try OFX and QFX. But was wondering - whats the
>> general thoughts on the different formats? Is either of the 3 better 
>> or
>> worse than the others? Or will gnucash do better with 1 in particular?
>> or..?
>
> You'll be much better off with OFX and QFX (both are the same for all 
> intents
> and purpose), for various reasons, the most important of which are 
> that it
> uses the new transaction matcher and that it can uniquely identify
> transactions you already downloaded.
>
> -- 
> Benoit Grégoire, http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/
> Président, Comité Jeunesse de l'Association des Diplômés de 
> Polytechnique.
>
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