On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:07:30PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> Personally, I would love to be able to just download
...
> [.. QIF ...] (due to problems with Vanguard losing
> information, and Netbank losing inter-account transfer information and
> returning a malformed check information.
>
> I would certainly love to see direct OFX import.
two remarks:
1) I've concluded that the est way to deal with OFX import is with scheme
However, I'm a scheme newbie, so this opinion is lightweight. (but
still correct!)
2) OFX also seems to loose inter-account transfer info, and has
mal-formed, badly capitalized and cryptic info in 'payee' and
'memo' fields, at least based on samples I've looked at.
Its a bit cleaner than QIF to parse (e.g. it should indicate the
currency of the transaction). But its not a double-entry system;
all you know is that money came, or went, but you are never clear
on to whom, or how or why. You have to guess based on the
badly-formatted, badly-capitalized, and possibbly blank 'payee'
and 'memo' fields. To maintain consistency, the OFX importer
would have to remember how it guessed last time, and hope it can
do the same again. Sigh. And I thought OFX was the answer to
all problems.
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