Bank Account Transaction Download Formats

Jim_E

I am having a great difficulty finding out what download formats different banks support. I manage my finances using an application called AceMoney running on my Windows laptop. I have accounts with Nationwide, John Lewis, M&S and others and like to manage these in one place. As M&S is closing I am looking at opening a new account. Virgin and Starling are top of the list at the moment. However asking what download formats they support leads to total confusion. OFX and QIF are well known formats and fully acceptable. CSV would be a pain. PDF is just not acceptable. The Reviews on this site do not mention this! 

RG2015

It looks like the Virgin Money current account only offers CSV downloads although it appears to be set up for more as follows:

Select format to export your list of transactions

Basic CSV

It does open in Excel but that may be the default that I set up on my pc.

colsten

Unless you have hundreds of transaction each month, manual reconciliation between your bank account(s) and AceMoney will be miles faster than faffing about with importing . That's my experience, anyway.

dunstonh

Lloyds do QIF and CSV.

Don't know about Starling as they have banned regulated individuals from opening accounts with them.