ofxstatement 0.9.2

Tool to convert proprietary bank statement to OFX format, suitable for importing to GnuCash

Ofxstatement is a tool to convert proprietary bank statements to OFX format, suitable for importing into personal accounting systems like GnuCash. This package provides a command line tool to run: ofxstatement. Run ofxstatement -h for more help. ofxstatement works under Python 3 and is not compatible with Python 2.

Rationale

Most internet banking systems are capable of exporting account transactions to some sort of computer readable format, but few support standard data formats, like OFX. On the other hand, personal accounting systems such as GnuCash support standard formats only, and will probably never support proprietary statement formats of online banking systems.

To bridge the gap between them, this ofxstatement tool was created.

Mode of Operation

The ofxstatement tool is intended to be used in the following workflow:

1. At the end of each month, use your online banking service to export statements from all of your bank accounts in a format known to ofxstatement.

2. Run ofxstatement on each exported file to convert it to OFX. Shell scripts or a Makefile may help to automate this routine.

3. Import the generated OFX file into your personal accounting system.

Installation and Usage

Before using ofxstatement, you have to install a plugin for your bank (or write your own!). Plugins are installed as regular python packages, with easy_install or pip, for example:

$ pip3 install ofxstatement-lithuanian

Note that ofxstatement itself will be installed automatically this way. After the installation, the ofxstatement utility will be available.

Users of Ubuntu and Debian operating systems can install ofxstatement from official package repositories:

$ apt install ofxstatement ofxstatement-plugins

You can check that ofxstatement is working by running:

$ ofxstatement list-plugins

You should get a list of your installed plugins.

After installation, the usage is simple:

$ ofxstatement convert -t <plugin> bank_statement.csv statement.ofx

The resulting statement.ofx is then ready to be imported into a personal accounting system.

Known Plugins

There are several user-developed plugins available:

Plugin	Description
ofxstatement-mt940	Swift MT940 statements
ofxstatement-iso20022	Generic ISO-20022 format
ofxstatement-paypal	PayPal, *.csv for private accounts
ofxstatement-transferwise	Transferwise CSV (international)
ofxstatement-lithuanian	Plugins for several banks, operating in Lithuania: Swedbank, Danske and common Lithuanian exchange format - LITAS-ESIS.
ofxstatement-czech	Plugin for Poštovní spořitelna (maxibps) and banks using GPC format (e.g., FIO banka, module gpc).
ofxstatement-airbankcz	Plugin for Air Bank a.s. (Czech Republic)
ofxstatement-raiffeisencz	Plugin for Raiffeisenbank a.s. (Czech Republic)
ofxstatement-skippaycz	Plugin for Skip Pay s.r.o. (Czech Republic)
ofxstatement-unicreditcz	Plugin for UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia
ofxstatement-equabankcz	Plugin for Equa Bank a.s. (Czech Republic)
ofxstatement-cz-komercni	Komerční banka (Czech Republic)
ofxstatement-mbankcz	mBank S.A. (Czech Republic)
ofxstatement-partnersbankacz	Partners Banka, a.s. (Czech Republic)
ofxstatement-otp	Plugin for OTP Bank, operating in Hungary
ofxstatement-bubbas	Set of plugins, developed by @bubbas: dkb_cc and lbbamazon.
banking.statements.osuuspankki	Finnish Osuuspankki bank
banking.statements.nordea	Nordea bank (at least Finnish branch of it)
ofxstatement-seb	SEB (Sweden), it parses Export.xlsx for private accounts
ofxstatement-lansforsakringar	Länsförsäkringar (Sweden), it parses Kontoutdrag.xls for private accounts
ofxstatement-be-belfius	Belfius (Belgium)
ofxstatement-be-keytrade	KeytradeBank (Belgium)
ofxstatement-be-ing	ING (Belgium)
ofxstatement-be-kbc	KBC (Belgium)
ofxstatement-be-argenta	Argenta (Belgium) (by @woutbr)
ofxstatement-be-argenta-nick	Argenta (Belgium, also supports french version) (fork by @Nick-DT)
ofxstatement-be-crelan	Crelan (Belgium)
ofxstatement-be-triodos	Belgian Triodos Bank CSV statements
ofxstatement-be-newb	Belgian cooperative bank newB
ofxstatement-be-vdk-fr	VDK (Belgium, French statements)
ofxstatement-be-hellobank-fr	Hello Bank (Belgium, French statements)
ofxstatement-germany	Plugin for several german banks (1822direkt and Postbank at the moment)
ofxstatement-dab	DAB Bank (Germany)
ofxstatement-consors	Consorsbank (Germany)
ofxstatement-de-triodos	German Triodos Bank CSV statements (also works for GLS Bank)
ofxstatement-sp-freiburg	Sparkasse Freiburg-Nördlicher Breisgau (Germany)
ofxstatement-de-ing	Ing Diba Bank (Germany)
ofxstatement-mastercard-de	Mastercard PDF statements (Germany)
ofxstatement-sparkasse-de	Sparkasse PDF statements (Germany)
ofxstatement-austrian	Plugins for several banks, operating in Austria: Easybank, ING-Diba, Livebank, Raiffeisenbank.
ofxstatement-postfinance	Swiss PostFinance (E-Finance Java text based bank/credit statements).
ofxstatement-fineco	FinecoBank (Italy)
ofxstatement-intesasp	Intesa San Paolo xlsx balance file (Italy)
ofxstatement-chebanca	CheBanca! xlsx format (Italy)
ofxstatement-n26	N26 Bank (Italy)
ofxstatement-it-banks	Widiba and Webank (Italy)
ofxstatement-bancoposta	BancoPosta - Poste Italiane (Italy)
ofxstatement-hype	Hype - Banca Sella (Italy)
ofxstatement-betterment	Betterment (USA)
ofxstatement-us-first-republic	First Republic Bank (USA)
ofxstatement-simple	Simple (USA, defunct) JSON financial statement format
ofxstatement-mbank-sk	MBank.sk (Slovakia)
ofxstatement-latvian	Latvian banks
ofxstatement-ee-seb	SEB (Estonia), parses proprietary csv file
ofxstatement-ee-swedbank	Swedbank (Estonia), parses proprietary csv file
ofxstatement-polish	Support for some Polish banks and financial institutions
ofxstatement-russian	Support for several Russian banks: Avangard, AlfaBank, Tinkoff, SberBank (both debit and csv), VTB.
ofxstatement-is-arionbanki	Arion bank (Iceland)
ofxstatement-revolut	Revolut Mastercard
ofxstatement-al_bank	Arbejdernes Landsbank (Denmark)
ofxstatement-cd-tmb	Trust Merchant Bank (DRC)
ofxstatement-zm-stanbic	Stanbic Bank (Zambia)
ofxstatement-dutch	Dutch financial institutes like ICSCards and ING
ofxstatement-french	French financial institutes like BanquePopulaire
ofxstatement-schwab-json	Charles Schwab investment history JSON export
ofxstatement-bbva	BBVA (Spain)
ofxstatement-qif	Converts Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) formatted bank transaction files
ofxstatement-santander	Converts Santander transaction files

Advanced Configuration

While ofxstatement can be used without any configuration, some plugins may accept additional configuration parameters. These parameters can be specified in a configuration file. The configuration file can be edited using the edit-config command that opens your favorite editor (defined by environment variable EDITOR or else the default for your platform) with the configuration file:

$ ofxstatement edit-config

The configuration file format is in the standard .ini format. The configuration is divided into sections that correspond to the --type command line parameter. Each section must provide a plugin option that points to one of the registered conversion plugins. Other parameters are plugin specific.

A sample configuration file:

[swedbank]
plugin = swedbank

[danske:usd]
plugin = litas-esis
charset = cp1257
currency = USD
account = LT123456789012345678

Such a configuration will let ofxstatement know about two statement file formats handled by the plugins swedbank and litas-esis. The litas-esis plugin will load statements using the cp1257 charset and set a custom currency and account number. This way, GnuCash will automatically associate the generated .ofx file with a particular GnuCash account.

To convert the proprietary CSV file danske.csv into the OFX file danske.ofx, run:

$ ofxstatement -t danske:usd danske.csv danske.ofx

Note that configuration parameters are plugin specific. See the plugin documentation for more info.

To use a custom configuration file, pass the -c / --config option:

$ ofxstatement convert -t pluginname -c /path/to/myconfig.ini input.csv output.ofx

Development / Testing

ofxstatemnt uses pipenv to manage the development environment and dependencies:

$ pip install pipenv
$ git clone https://github.com/<your_account>/ofxstatement.git
$ cd ofxstatement
$ pipenv sync --dev

And finally run the test suite:

$ pipenv shell
$ pytest

When satisfied, you may create a pull request.

Writing your own Plugin

If the plugin for your bank has not been developed yet (see Known plugins section above) you can easily write your own, provided you have some knowledge about the Python programming language. There is an ofxstatement-sample plugin project available that provides sample boilerplate and describes the plugin development process in detail.