using Online Banking Setup

[Mike Alexander]

It does work, but it's hard to set up since banks don't generally 
publish the information necessary to configure it.  They have special 
deals with companies like Intuit to give them the info, but products 
like GnuCash don't benefit from this.

           Mike

--On December 4, 2010 6:10:26 PM -0600 M Prindle <mprindle at pobox.com> 
wrote:

> I personally have never been able to get it to work.  I just dl the
> ofx from my banks and import them.
>
> "Michael Hughes" <itismike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi GnuCash users. How popular is the Online Banking feature which
>> suggests that it can automatically pull data from onine banking
>> websites? Are any users familiar with setting it up?
>> The Help section is woefully unfinished
>> (http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.2/C/gnucash-help/trans-online.html)
>>
>> The only other source I found is the Wiki, which is also a bit 'rough
>> around the edges':
>> (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash
>> _2#AqBanking) Also, none of the image links are working. They appear
>> to be sitting here waiting for an admin to link them?
>> (http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/15079)
>>
>> As a new user of GnuCash, I'm just curious if this is a commonly-used
>> feature that is reliable for most, or if it is not quite ready for
>> "prime-time?"
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
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