Online banking

[David Reiser]

On Jan 2, 2009, at 11:45 AM, dave boland wrote:

> Beginning of a new year and I'm looking at money management programs
> (again - I do it every year :-( ).  One of my requirements is online
> banking to the extent that a transaction (payment, transfer, etc.)
> recorded in gnuCash is sent to the bank, and new records downloaded  
> and
> reconciled, without having to logon to the banks web site.
>
> After going through the gnuCash online documentation I don't know if
> this is supported, at least for U.S. banks.  Can someone clarify the
> extent of online banking as it currently exists and comment on the
> future (road map)?
>
> Thank you and have a great new year!
>
> Dave,
> -- 
>  dave boland
>  dboland9 at fastmail.fm

The extent of online banking in gnucash in the U.S. is downloading  
transaction records from the banks. There is no uploading available.  
Despite Intuit's claim of using an open standard, they are almost the  
only ones who have written a server side for ofx/qfx. They aren't  
inclined to allow open source projects access to a test server. With  
no reasonably priced access to a test server, no one has tried to  
write the transaction initiation side of online banking for the U.S.

I doubt the situation will change.

Dave
--
David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net