using Online Banking Setup

Michael Hughes itismike at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 20:05:50 EST 2010


Okay, thanks for all the feedback. I'll stop banging away at it and just dl
as I had success with that.
On Dec 4, 2010 6:40 PM, "brad" <bradhaack at fastmail.us> wrote:
> I've never had any success w/ it, for OFX. It looks like the Europeans
> are ahead of us here in the US, w/ HBCI. I download the OFX and import
> it. That's flaky too.
>
> On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 18:22 -0600, Mike Alexander wrote:
>> 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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