Are you the person supporting QIF imports?

[Charles Day]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Tom Bullock <tbullock at nd.edu> wrote:

> Charles,
>
> Thanks for self-identifying.  As someone new to GnuCash I still have a lot
> of reading to do and am not familiar yet with all the places to look for
> answers to questions I am asking that may already have been addressed.
>
> I have captured the QIF information discussed recently.  The obvious
> requirement is to build QIF records that GnuCash accepts via the import
> process and that the program treats in the expected manner.
>

I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. If you're talking about trying
to import invoices, the QIF importer doesn't currently support that and I
can't recall even ever seeing any invoices in QIF format, much less customer
data, billing terms etc.

On the other hand, if you're just trying to transfer accounts and their
credits & debits, that should be OK.


> Since I am at the beginning stages of a QuickBooks to GC conversion
> program, it will be awhile before I have anything for anyone to look at or
> test.  When I get closer to that point, will you be willing to accept some
> test data to confirm that what I think works is created the way you need?
>  While that request would come about after I had put some time into the
> project, do you have anything that you want to caution me about at the very
> beginning of the effort?
>

Hmm... I'm not really sure about what's currently available for processing
QuickBooks data. I think you can find some information on other threads
about ways of pulling data out and converting it to QIF with a mix of manual
and automated steps, using a spreadsheet as a go-between.

How would your program add to these techniques? Does it understand
QuickBooks IIF format, for example?


> Thanks.
>
> Tom
>

-Charles