OFX example

Wojciech Piekutowski w.piekutowski at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 10:45:09 EDT 2010


Hi,

I'm working on a script that will convert my monthly bank statement
data to OFX format. I have some questions about this. What version of
OFX is supported? Are there any example OFX files available that will
work well with gnucash? This would greatly help me and possibly other
clients of this bank as I'm planning to release this script under MIT
license.

I have some questions too.

<BANKACCTFROM>
          <BANKID>1234 1234</BANKID>
          <ACCTID>5678 5678 5678 5678</ACCTID>

Should I split BANKID and ACCTID like this or is better to stick the
whole account number into ACCTID and leave BANKID? Or maybe use the
bank name as BANKID?

When TRNTYPE is POS, ATM or FEE should I include BANKACCTTO part?

Is FITID used at all by gnucash, for example to match internal
transactions between two client's accounts?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Greetings,
Wojciech

BTW My current output looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<?OFX OFXHEADER="200" VERSION="211" SECURITY="NONE" OLDFILEUID="NONE"
NEWFILEUID="NONE"?>
<OFX>
  <BANKMSGSRSV1>
    <STMTTRNRS>
      <STMTRS>
        <CURDEF>PLN</CURDEF>
        <BANKACCTFROM>
          <BANKID>1234 1234</BANKID>
          <ACCTID>5678 5678 5678 5678</ACCTID>
          <ACCTTYPE>SAVINGS</ACCTTYPE>
        </BANKACCTFROM>
        <BANKTRANLIST>
          <DTSTART>20100501[+1:CET]</DTSTART>
          <DTEND>20100531[+1:CET]</DTEND>
<!-- debit card payment -->
<STMTTRN>
  <TRNTYPE>POS</TRNTYPE>
  <DTPOSTED>20100503[+1:CET]</DTPOSTED>
  <DTUSER>20100426[+1:CET]</DTUSER>
  <TRNAMT>-23.11</TRNAMT>
  <FITID>588fdb8b38401023215007e017fc93ae</FITID>
  <NAME></NAME>
  <MEMO>description</MEMO>
  <BANKACCTTO>
    <BANKID></BANKID>
    <ACCTID></ACCTID>
    <ACCTTYPE>SAVINGS</ACCTTYPE>
  </BANKACCTTO>
</STMTTRN>
<!-- regular transfer -->
<STMTTRN>
  <TRNTYPE>CREDIT</TRNTYPE>
  <DTPOSTED>20100506[+1:CET]</DTPOSTED>
  <DTUSER>20100506[+1:CET]</DTUSER>
  <TRNAMT>1519.97</TRNAMT>
  <FITID>c99bf204ac1167ff12fe1caa861539e5</FITID>
  <NAME>JAN KOWALSKI</NAME>
  <MEMO>PRZELEW</MEMO>
  <BANKACCTTO>
    <BANKID></BANKID>
    <ACCTID>12 3456 3456 3456 3456 3456</ACCTID>
    <ACCTTYPE>SAVINGS</ACCTTYPE>
  </BANKACCTTO>
</STMTTRN>
<!-- regular transfer -->
<STMTTRN>
  <TRNTYPE>DEBIT</TRNTYPE>
  <DTPOSTED>20100506[+1:CET]</DTPOSTED>
  <DTUSER>20100506[+1:CET]</DTUSER>
  <TRNAMT>-1500.0</TRNAMT>
  <FITID>07bce7a5cd4d10e79b333a802fa39ae5</FITID>
  <NAME>JAN KOWALSKI</NAME>
  <MEMO>1875336</MEMO>
  <BANKACCTTO>
    <BANKID>GNB II O./Lublin</BANKID>
    <ACCTID>43 1234 1234 1234 1234 1234 1234</ACCTID>
    <ACCTTYPE>SAVINGS</ACCTTYPE>
  </BANKACCTTO>
</STMTTRN>
<!-- ATM transaction -->
<STMTTRN>
  <TRNTYPE>ATM</TRNTYPE>
  <DTPOSTED>20100514[+1:CET]</DTPOSTED>
  <DTUSER>20100513[+1:CET]</DTUSER>
  <TRNAMT>-200.0</TRNAMT>
  <FITID>ad01139e4079be43e7f2bf9745bec65d</FITID>
  <NAME></NAME>
  <MEMO>WBK S.A.</MEMO>
  <BANKACCTTO>
    <BANKID></BANKID>
    <ACCTID></ACCTID>
    <ACCTTYPE>SAVINGS</ACCTTYPE>
  </BANKACCTTO>
</STMTTRN>
<!-- ATM fee -->
<STMTTRN>
  <TRNTYPE>FEE</TRNTYPE>
  <DTPOSTED>20100526[+1:CET]</DTPOSTED>
  <DTUSER>20100526[+1:CET]</DTUSER>
  <TRNAMT>-5.0</TRNAMT>
  <FITID>34c97d25118cfe684bea6c7765ee2d23</FITID>
  <NAME></NAME>
  <MEMO>BGZ SA</MEMO>
  <BANKACCTTO>
    <BANKID></BANKID>
    <ACCTID></ACCTID>
    <ACCTTYPE>SAVINGS</ACCTTYPE>
  </BANKACCTTO>
</STMTTRN>
        </BANKTRANLIST>
      </STMTRS>
    </STMTTRNRS>
  </BANKMSGSRSV1>
</OFX>


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