QIF Record and field layouts

[Tax Assistance Program - ( taptax )]

Thanks, Charles.  I appreciate the reference.  I will definitely check it out.

Tom

From: Charles Day [mailto:cedayiv at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 12:11 PM
To: Tax Assistance Program - ( taptax )
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: QIF Record and field layouts

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Tax Assistance Program - ( taptax ) <taptax at nd.edu<mailto:taptax at nd.edu>> wrote:
Hi everyone,

Still trying to get started.  I am moving my data from QuickBooks (much different than Quicken) to Gnucash.  I can easily export from QB to a tab or csv delimited file.  But moving that data into the QIF format will by my challenge.

So I am studying what is involved and find that the information re QIF format I found using google is pretty general.  I have some sense of what it will look like but nothing specific.

For general QIF information, have a look at the information at wikipedia. GnuCash also has a writeup on the QIF format here:
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/file-format.txt

Where there are differences, I'd tend think the GnuCash document is more accurate. ;)


Here are my questions:
a)    How many record types does QIF support?
b)    Where do I find the field-by-field layouts for each supported QIF record type?
c)    What techniques did prior QB users invoke to make the data conversion to QIF?

Once I have those answers I am assuming I should be able to transfer my data from QB format to QIF.

Has anyone ever converted QB records to Gnucash?

Interested in all replies!  :)

Thanks.

Tom Bullock
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