[moneydance] Potential solutions for UK bank access

[Jill Lundquist]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Graham Borland <graham at moonbog.net> wrote:

> Milutin Jovanović wrote:
> > 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...
>
> No. None of the banks I use offer even a basic CSV download. Even if
> they did, it wouldn't be the automatic transaction download solution I'm
> looking for.
>

Both of my UK banks export data in OFX and CSV and some other formats (by
which I mean I can click some things on their websites to download my
transactions in a file that moneydance reads seamlessly).  I have never
tried to have moneydance download things automatically, since I prefer to
examine the transactions as they come in and I know I would end up
overlooking some if software did it for me.

It sounds like that's not what you're looking for, so changing banks might
not help you.  But I think being able to download transactions is pretty
normal in my experience, and I'm shaking my head to hear that your bank
doesn't support it.  And here I've been grumbling about HSBC requiring an
annoying number of clicks...

         Jill