Can you download statements from your bank...?

thenudeone

I use smile and have no problem retaining the data.

Just install one of numerous free print-to-pdf programs (eg: dopdf or novapdf) and "print" the web page to a pdf file which you save on your own computer.

The only quirk I've noticed is that google chrome does not have very good options for adjusting print options, so I use Internet Explorer, use Print Preview, change the scaling to 80%, then print to pdf. This ensures that it all fits on one page.

Gromitt

callum9999 wrote: »

Nationwide works fine now (I assume that's what you mean by "they pulled out"?). CSV and OFX I believe.

Nationwide also allows you to download statements as far back as 2006 in PDF format - looks like a copy of the posted paper statement! I noticed this also worked for a credit card that I had closed last year.

First Direct allowed me to download QIF files from 2006.

I've tried co-op bank, but their online banking seems to be the worst I've ever used.

Jams_O_Donnell

Callum9999, I can't see how to download my Visa details from Nationwide directly into Money - I think they stopped supporting MS Money in 2009, I see your post in the thread Nationwide to remove support for Microsoft money so I'll read more of the articles there (I can't post link as a Newbie)

thedudeone, I'm resigned to printing out statements and keying the darn things into Money - it was so much easier having the data sucked in. AMEX still provides this service - Santander seem to have written the code on a Friday afternoon and knocked off before the job was fiished, but with Santander paying up to 3% cash back my greed is getting the better of me!

plainsong

I'm a Smile customer. I know the thread is old, but for anyone else who is still a Smile customer, I've written a simple app to convert Smile bank statements (ie the saved html page) to OFX format, which is what MS Money understands.

Hm, apparently because this is one of my first posts, I'm not allowed to include links. As an alternative if you paste this into google, you'll find it about 6 places from the top, with a thumbnail of the screen:

smile to ofx bank statement video

Thanks

innovate

No offense, plainsong, but nobody in their right mind would use an app (particularly from a nebwie poster) that has any of their bank data as input.

Gromitt

innovate wrote: »

No offense, plainsong, but nobody in their right mind would use an app (particularly from a nebwie poster) that has any of their bank data as input.

I would, if it was open source and I could compile it myself.

This particular app is of no use to me however as I don't use OFX. I prefer the hardcore way: Entering all my transactions manually :shocked:

Hazzanet

innovate wrote: »

No offense, plainsong, but nobody in their right mind would use an app (particularly from a nebwie poster) that has any of their bank data as input.

There are various free-pdf creators, such as CutePDF which are great and work as well as, if not better than their paid for counterparts.

As Grommitt says, you have more opportunity to scrutinise the code of an open source 'product' (if you're so minded and understand code) versus a commercial PDF printer such as Adobe or NitroPDF where the code is effectively kept secret and cannot be pored over to check for bugs, security flaws and spyware.

Hazzanet

And quickly looking at plainsong's unix shell script, it appears to be a clever use of a couple of standard command line tools to suck in an HTML file, sort into a usable order, strip unwanted spaces, and spit out a file in the relevant format. Looks pretty clever to me.

plainsong

Thanks for all your comments.

marcpalmer

Hi,

Co-op's online banking is not great, but if like me you use them for their ethics you don't have much choice.

They don't have an export feature for personal banking, but this week I made a free one for anyone to use.

It's just something you drag to your bookmarks and click when viewing a statement, then it saves as CSV or OFX:

You can find it at http : // uncoop.me - I can't make it a link as I'm new here, make sure to remove the spaces I had to put in