QIF account types

A.J. Bonnema gbonnema at xs4all.nl
Fri Dec 18 09:25:10 EST 2015


On 12/18/2015 02:10 PM, Matt Kowske wrote:
> I'm not sure what all is supported, but I wrote a script to parse QIF 
> files and found the information I needed for it to import into GnuCash 
> and match accounts correctly was a header like so:
>
> !Account
> NAssets:Current Assets:Checking
> ^
> !Type:Bank
>
> <transactions follow here>
>
> The line that starts with "N" needs to match the account in GnuCash 
> corresponding to this QIF import. I use !Type:Bank for all account 
> types -- assets like checking and liabilities like a credit card.
>
> Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the different options here 
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Interchange_Format), but that 
> is what worked for me.
Thanks Matt, this works for me too. The link also contains the different 
types for account, where !Type:Bank is a checking account and 
!Type:CCard is a creditcard, etc. Apparantly, the TBank is not needed as 
subline of !Account.

Kind regards, Guus.


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