Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-17 Thread Dave (DavesTechShop.net)
For me, the first version of this could be as simple as altering the existing wasabe Firefox add-on so it additionally saves the downloaded files to my local disk. It would need to name the files appropriately and place them into a designated directory. That's it. The wasabe Firefox add-on already

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-17 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:53:05 -0400, "Dave (DavesTechShop.net)" wrote: > I was suggesting that a Firefox macro be used (in the Firefox browser, not > as part of GnuCash) to extend to GnuCash the same benefits that such an > approach extends to wesabe. For example, the ease with which a user can add

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-16 Thread Dave (DavesTechShop.net)
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Martin, > > Martin Preuss writes: > > > So are you asking for a way to get your information from wasebe to > GnuCash or > > do you want GnuCash to mimic the firefox addon for the purpose of > gathering > > and then uploading your informatio

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Martin, Martin Preuss writes: > So are you asking for a way to get your information from wasebe to GnuCash or > do you want GnuCash to mimic the firefox addon for the purpose of gathering > and then uploading your information to wesabe? My reading of the email was that he was asking for GnuCa

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-16 Thread Martin Preuss
Hi, On Mittwoch, 16. September 2009, Dave (DavesTechShop.net) wrote: [...] > Judging by your question, Martin, I assume you have missed all the "front > page" news in the US about Mint.com, Yodlee.com, Quicken Oniine, Wesabe, > etc. [...] No, I didn't miss the fact that those services exist (bein

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Dear Dave, thanks for this interesting feature proposal. I would probably be one potential developer who is able to work on this feature, but there are some issues which make this rather complicated. I'll comment on each below. Zitat von "Dave (DavesTechShop.net)" : My goal is to be able

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-16 Thread Thomas Baumgart
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:40:55 Christian Stimming wrote: > Zitat von "Dave (DavesTechShop.net)" : > > The concept is about aggregating all one's financial data in one place. > > So the tool downloads it from all the various financial institutions one > > deals with and then uploads it to

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Zitat von "Dave (DavesTechShop.net)" : The concept is about aggregating all one's financial data in one place. So the tool downloads it from all the various financial institutions one deals with and then uploads it to wasabe so the user can see a complete financial picture in one place. So, yes,

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-16 Thread Manfred Usselmann
Hi, On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:57:33 -0400 "Dave (DavesTechShop.net)" wrote: > The concept is about aggregating all one's financial data in one place. So > the tool downloads it from all the various financial institutions one deals > with and then uploads it to wasabe so the user can see a complete

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-15 Thread Dave (DavesTechShop.net)
The concept is about aggregating all one's financial data in one place. So the tool downloads it from all the various financial institutions one deals with and then uploads it to wasabe so the user can see a complete financial picture in one place. So, yes, it is about uploading the data to wesabe.

Re: bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Preuss
Hi, just a question: Is this wesabe approach really about *uploading* (!) personal financial data to their website?? Who would do something like that?? Regards Martin -- "Things are only impossible until they're not" Martin Preuss - http://www2.aquamaniac.de/ AqBanking - http://www.aqbankin

bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

2009-09-15 Thread Dave (DavesTechShop.net)
I have a need for enhanced online banking functionality and I will put out a bounty for developing this. My goal is to be able to get *all* my banking, loan and investment info into GnuCash easily and *automatically*. GnuCash and every other personal finance app have too many limitations and frust