[GNC] Gnucash doesn't load American Express QFX files

Ronal B Morse ron at morsehouse.com
Sat Sep 7 19:39:50 EDT 2019


Maybe what I do is a little different.

After logging in to Amex and navigating to the Statements and Activity 
Page, I click on the green download icon from the pages toolbar and 
select card activity from that drop down.

A new paged opens automatically and on that page I select "Quicken" from 
the options in the left pane then scroll down the page to find the date 
range selection section in the right pane. Today I clicked on the 
"Individual statements available to download" radio button then selected 
checked "Aug 15 to Present" since I downloaded about a week ago.

Clicking on the blue "download" button results in a file named ofx.qfx 
in my downloads folder and that is the file I inport into Gnucash.

Hope this helps

RBM

On 9/7/19 4:43 PM, Jim Leek wrote:
> I just tried to download from AmericanExpress again.  I still have the 
> same problem.  I'm just clicking the little download icon next to my 
> activity on the "Statements and Activity" page.  Maybe there's another 
> method?
>
> With GnuCash 3.6 I was able to import from CSV.  That's a hassle, but 
> the import page is much better than was on Gnucash 2.6, so kudos to 
> whoever made that.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 3:26 PM Ronal B Morse <ron at morsehouse.com 
> <mailto:ron at morsehouse.com>> wrote:
>
>     FWIW, I just downloaded my AMEX card activity with no problems or
>     unusual results, beyond that it always takes me awhile to find the
>     correct download portal.  Maybe just a transient problem on the
>     server end?
>
>     RBM
>
>     On 9/7/19 2:46 PM, Jim Leek wrote:
>     > I got this error using both Gnucash 2.6.19 and 3.6 on Linux Mint
>     19 with
>     > libofx7 from the Ubuntu repositories.
>     >
>     > I have been using Gnucash for many years, and this is the first
>     time I've
>     > ever had trouble with American Express.
>     >
>     > Actually aqbanking couldn't communicate with american express
>     for the first
>     > time, I got the error:
>     > Status for transaction statement request: Account not found
>     (Code 2003,
>     > severity "ERROR")
>     > But that's not what I'm writing about.
>     >
>     > I logged into the website and downloaded the QFX file, but could
>     not import
>     > it.  I get the following error.
>     >
>     > LibOFX INFO: libofx_proc_file(): File format not specified,
>     autodetecting...
>     > (Above message occurred on Line 2815, Column 1)
>     > LibOFX ERROR: libofx_detect_file_type(): Failed to identify
>     input file
>     > format
>     > (Above message occurred on Line 2815, Column 1)
>     > LibOFX INFO: libofx_proc_file(): Detected file format: UNKNOWN
>     (File format
>     > couldn't be successfully identified)
>     > (Above message occurred on Line 2815, Column 1)
>     > LibOFX ERROR: libofx_proc_file(): Detected file format not yet
>     supported ou
>     > couldn't detect file format; aborting.
>     > (Above message occurred on Line 2815, Column 1)
>     >
>     >
>     > Here is a sanitized version of the troublesome QFX file:
>     >
>     > <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?><?OFX OFXHEADER="200"
>     VERSION="202"
>     > SECURITY="NONE" OLDFILEUID="NONE" NEWFILEUID="NONE"?><OFX
>     xmlns:ns2="
>     >
>     http://ofx.net/types/2003/04"><SIGNONMSGSRSV1><SONRS><STATUS><CODE>0</CODE><SEVERITY>INFO</SEVERITY><MESSAGE>Login
>     >
>     Successful!</MESSAGE></STATUS><DTSERVER>20190907000000.000[-7:MST]</DTSERVER><LANGUAGE>ENG</LANGUAGE><FI><ORG>AMEX</ORG><FID>3101</FID></FI><INTU.BID>3101</INTU.BID></SONRS></SIGNONMSGSRSV1><CREDITCARDMSGSRSV1><CCSTMTTRNRS><TRNUID>0</TRNUID><STATUS><CODE>0</CODE><SEVERITY>INFO</SEVERITY></STATUS><CCSTMTRS><CURDEF>USD</CURDEF><CCACCTFROM><ACCTID>55555</ACCTID></CCACCTFROM><BANKTRANLIST><DTSTART>20190819000000.000[-7:MST]</DTSTART><DTEND>20190917000000.000[-7:MST]</DTEND><STMTTRN><TRNTYPE>DEBIT</TRNTYPE><DTPOSTED>20190903000000.000[-7:MST]</DTPOSTED><TRNAMT>-5.96</TRNAMT><FITID>320192470420083886</FITID><REFNUM>3886</REFNUM><NAME>GO</NAME></STMTTRN><STMTTRN><TRNTYPE>DEBIT</TRNTYPE><DTPOSTED>20190828000000.000[-7:MST]</DTPOSTED><TRNAMT>-5.71</TRNAMT><FITID>320192400297241997</FITID><REFNUM>1997</REFNUM><NAME>ABE</NAME></STMTTRN><STMTTRN><TRNTYPE>DEBIT</TRNTYPE><DTPOSTED>20190824000000.000[-7:MST]</DTPOSTED><TRNAMT>-18.75</TRNAMT><FITID>320192360229505663</FITID><REFNUM>5663</REFNUM><NAM
>     >
>      E>SP</NAME></STMTTRN><STMTTRN><TRNTYPE>DEBIT</TRNTYPE><DTPOSTED>20190822000000.000[-7:MST]</DTPOSTED><TRNAMT>-44.09</TRNAMT><FITID>320192340194773560</FITID><REFNUM>3560</REFNUM><NAME>CAR</NAME></STMTTRN><STMTTRN><TRNTYPE>DEBIT</TRNTYPE><DTPOSTED>20190822000000.000[-7:MST]</DTPOSTED><TRNAMT>-72.30</TRNAMT><FITID>320192350219520978</FITID><REFNUM>0978</REFNUM><NAME>KO</NAME></STMTTRN><STMTTRN><TRNTYPE>DEBIT</TRNTYPE><DTPOSTED>20190822000000.000[-7:MST]</DTPOSTED><TRNAMT>-34.68</TRNAMT><FITID>320192350216287132</FITID><REFNUM>7132</REFNUM><NAME>SA</NAME></STMTTRN></BANKTRANLIST><LEDGERBAL><BALAMT>-2715.88</BALAMT><DTASOF>20190907000000.000[-7:MST]</DTASOF></LEDGERBAL></CCSTMTRS></CCSTMTTRNRS></CREDITCARDMSGSRSV1></OFX>
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