web connect

[David Reiser]

On May 9, 2008, at 7:58 PM, John Rosenquist wrote:

> I've been looking around on the web, and have found many references to
> direct-connect, but almost none to web-connect, and none that have  
> answered
> my question. Is web-connect implemented in gnucash?
> (I have 2.2.5 is installed)
>
> Thanks, John.

That depends on how complete it has to be before you say  
'implemented'.  As far as I can tell, all web-connect does is send a  
qfx (essentially identical to ofx) file that Quicken intercepts,  
opens, and processes much like Adobe Reader takes over and processes  
pdf files.

Since for web connect you have to be logged into your bank account to  
trigger the data transfer, you've already done 50% of the extra work  
required of web-connect. For gnucash, you initiate the data transfer  
the same way, but you have to manually switch to gnucash and use File- 
 >Import->OFX/QFX (and then browse to the file location) to get the  
data into gnucash.

My credit union (a web-connect only financial institution) sends the  
file export.qfx when I tell them I want a transfer to Quicken newer  
than 2005.

I suppose if you are on a windows machine or a mac with an active copy  
of Quicken, you'd have to investigate how to keep Quicken from  
grabbing your data before you import it into gnucash.

Dave
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David Reiser
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