[moneydance] Potential solutions for UK bank access

[Milutin Jovanović]

Can you tell me, does your bank support any other format. For example CSV
(comma separated values) which is very simple text format. I had the same
problem in Canada, and for this I created a MD plugin to import the new
format into MD. Maybe the plugin can be adapted for your needs...

Miki.


2009/6/5 Graham Borland <graham at moonbog.net>

> Moneydance is currently unable to connect to any UK banks, since they
> tend not to support the OFX protocol. This is a crap situation.
>
> Until UK banks have a change of heart en masse, and pigs start flying,
> the only way to get transaction info from UK banks is screen-scraping.
>
> I've signed up to Yodlee's personal finance site
> <http://www.yodlee.com/> and I'm delighted to report that it flawlessly
> adds accounts and downloads transactions from every UK institution I've
> tried it with so far. (You have to give Yodlee your login details for
> each bank's web site, but their security seems quite robust.)
>
> Using Yodlee as an intermediary between UK banks and third-party
> software products like Moneydance should be possible, since they provide
> a developer SDK. Several finance solutions, like Mint and MSN Money,
> already use Yodlee's backend in their online service, from what I can
> gather.
>
> Could Moneydance please be made to use this, or some similar service, as
> an alternative to OFX for those of us (many!) whose banks don't support it?
>
> Graham
>
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