GNUCash value proposition

[Steve Cohen]

You mention manual download of QXF format and David recommends OFX.  Any
reason to prefer one or the other?

On 04/24/2017 11:52 AM, Richard De Vriese wrote:
> Hi, I've been using GnuCash for a bunch of years with Chase bank. I just
> down load the transactions manually using QXF format and import into
> GnuCash. Once GnuCash gets familiar with your normal transactions it does a
> pretty good job of assigning the correct account types to each transaction.
> I don't have any complaints with it.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 9:43 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Steve,
>>
>> I have found that I can manually download last month's transactions in OFX
>> format when I visit my bank's website each month to make sure nobody is
>> hijacking my bank account.  That is free, and not much harder than messing
>> with the Direct Connect stuff that frequently breaks.
>>
>> David C
>>