Quote History Originally Posted By giantpune:
Does that one support automatic syncing from the accounts? Thats one of the nice things about the one i'm looking for. It supports logging into the banks, knowing what category each account is (checking, savings, retirement, credit card, mortgage, etc). And then it does a fairly decent job categorizing transactions it sees in the accounts vithout user interaction.
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This is the one area that GnuCash does not perform well. This is because either the bank wants you using their system and/or because Quicken has got what remains of the US home finance market sewn up with the banks. What capabilities GnuCash has for making electronic connections to financial institutions tends to be very obscure.
I use GnuCash with two bank accounts and two credit cards accounts. When I sit down to do financial stuff once a month I have to go to three websites and download statements in .csv format manually, then manually import them into GnuCash. After that things work very much automatically. You can perform automatic reconciliation if you enter things manually, or you can just trust your financial institution. The first two or three months are a bit of a chore because you have to do a lot of manual account assignment for each transaction. However, after a couple of months or so GnuCash will do a very good job of automatically classifying what accounts (e.g. auto, dining, utilities, etc.) any transaction goes against and you wind up with very little in the way of manual operations except for downloading and importing those file every month.