Online banking- exporting data

newfunk

We want to be able to keep a more accurate account of our current account, eg keeping a tab on day to day spending, we check our bank account daily online, but would like to ba able to just see the balance at a glance on our pc...


Whats the best software to use for this? Any free downloads available?

Cheers

Funky :cool:

Mr_Skint_2

I dont think so as you would have to keep an open connection and
SSL times out after an hour I believe.

newfunk

Ok, but what about being able to input what we spend rather than having it written in a book? Works came with the pc, is that any good, just never bothered to load it,a s I had excel on my previous one!!

Mr_Skint_2

Do you want XL 2003 then.

newfunk

if its any good yeah!!

Mr_Skint_2

Oh sorry its the demo one its a bit rubbish.

Rex_Mundi

You can organise and keep track of your spending/finances with MS Money. It is designed to do pretty much what you're after, and you can set it up to download your statements straight to the program to make it easier to keep track of things.

You should be able to pick this program up quite cheaply.

newfoundglory

Pretty much all online banks offer statement downloads in comma separated value format (.csv). This can be read by basically any spreadsheeting app... so you could just go download OpenOffice free from https://www.openoffice.org and open up your statements. OpenOffice Calc is what you want...

There are free money programs available. However you will need a Unix based operating system to run them (eg. Linux, BSD or OS X). GNU cash is one example (http://www.gnucash.org/), and KMyMoney runs on KDE.