To convert American Express CSV to QIF

[Wes Metz]

Michael, I never used xl2qif for more than a few transactions and had to
correct entries after the import. After your experience, I went at it again
and was able to make it work correctly. The documentation is not very good
so I will describe how I use it.

I get the transactions I want to import into a three column, excel sheet
containing the date, vendor and amount. (Credit Card charges must be a
negative number; credits and payments positive.) I select only the cells
that will be imported (no column headers or row labels).

Then I start xl2qif. Set the *QIF Output File *to something that makes
sense to you. Make sure the *Input Data *is what you selected. *Clear
*the *Fields
present in Input Data. *Select the following fields in this order: *Date,
Payee, Amount. *Verify the *Account Type *and *Date Format*. *Convert *and
import the file. It should work.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Michael DeBusk <mdebusk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried to get that working and couldn't make it go.
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Wes Metz <wes704 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Michael, I download AMEX transactions as MSEXCEL and use XL2QIF to
> convert
> > them for importing to GNUCash. There is also CALC2QIF.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Michael DeBusk <mdebusk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Some time back, I found that I could no longer download QIF files from
> >> American Express. I could, however, get a CSV. The following is my
> >> first shot at a one-liner to convert that particular CSV to QIF.
> >>
> >> cat ofx.csv | sed -e 's/\"//g;s/Reference\:\ //g;s/ \{1,\}/ /g'
> >> ofx.csv | awk -F, '{ print "D" $1; print "N" $2; print "T" $3; print
> >> "P" $4; print "M" $5; print "LExpenses:&&"; print "^"; }' > amex.qif
> >>
> >> It's not perfect, but since I can barely scratch the surface of awk
> >> and sed, it'll do. I haven't found that it ruins anything. If anyone
> >> can improve upon it, I'd be grateful.
> >>
> >> (The last awk instruction to print "LExpenses:&&" creates an account
> >> placeholder for me in each transaction. I go in and edit the QIF
> >> afterward, replacing "&&" with the appropriate account name.)
> >>
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