Personal finance software w/automatic transaction downloading?

Simon4

Hi,

Does anyone know of any personal finance software which can automatically download transactions for the Co-Operative Bank?

I'm not interested in software which can merely import statements made available by online banking websites. I want the import of transactions to be completely automatic.

I presently use a piece of software called AceMoney which can do this for many US bank accounts, but it doesn't support Co-Operative.

(Also, not interested in the MoneyDashboard Lovemoney websites, I've tried them and they don't seem to work too well).

Any help would be very much appreciated,

Simon

donkingkong

Give Xero Personal a try, xero.com/personal

Simon4

donkingkong wrote: »

Give Xero Personal a try, xero.com/personal

Thanks, that is such a great tip.

For those who haven't seen it, Xero is just like MoneyDashboard and Lovemoney.com/track, except that it's actually good!

(Although I said I wanted desktop software, this was only because I thought I'd exhausted all the website based solutions).

gazid

Hi, I've just started using Xero and it does seem pretty good, although it won't sync up with my Halifax account. I've spoken to the Halifax and they generally do not know about Xero and recommend Not to use any third party software that wants access to your account. This seems to be reasonable although my accountant who has set me up with Xero assures me it's not a problem and UK banks are being slow on the uptake.

There is an alternative whereby you download your bank statements, convert them into a certain type of file, then import them into Xero. It's works but it's kind of convoluted.