ofxstatement 0.6.4

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

Changes

0.6.4 (2020-03-04)

• Fix regression introduced in 0.6.3 - edit-config command stopped working.

0.6.3 (2020-02-13)

• Fix config editing on Windows

0.6.2 (2020-01-20)

• Better EDITOR environment variable handling for edit-config command
• Support Python-3.7
• API: type of StatementLine.date_user (date when user initiated transaction) will not be a string by default.
• API: More unique generated transaction ids (when one is not available from the statement file)

0.6.1 (2017-05-07)

• Fix installation problem on python-3.5 (#55)

0.6.0 (2016-12-02)

• Support for specifying account information for each parsed satatement line and translate it to BANKACCTTO aggregate in OFX.

• Command line option to display debugging information (--debug).

• Fix config file location for appdirs >= 1.3.0

0.5.0 (2013-11-03)

• Plugins are now registered via setuptools' entry-points mechanism. This allows plugins to live in separate eggs and developed independently of ofxstatement itself. Plugins are registered as 'ofxstatement' entry points (#11).

• Command line interface changed: ofxstatement now accepts "action" parameter and few actions were added:

  • ofxstatement convert: perform conversion to OFX
  • ofxstatement list-plugins: list available conversion plugins
  • ofxstatement edit-config: launch default editor to edit configuration file

• ofxstatement convert can be run without any configuration. Plugin name to use is specified using -t TYPE parameter in this case (#12).

• StatementLine supports more attributes, translated to OFX (#13):

  • refnum - translated to <REFNUM> in OFX.
  • trntype - translated to <TRNTYPE> in OFX.

OFX Statement

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Ofxstatement is a tool to convert proprietary bank statement to OFX format, suitable for importing to GnuCash. Package provides single command line tool to run: ofxstatement. Run ofxstatement -h to see basic usage description. 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 formats, but few supports standard data formats, like OFX. On the other hand, personal accounting tools, 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, ofxstatement tool was created.

.. _GnuCash: http://gnucash.org/ .. _OFX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange

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 to files in formats, known to ofxstatement.

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

3. Import generated OFX files to GnuCash or other accounting system.

Installation and Usage

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

$ pip3 install ofxstatement-lithuanian

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

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

$ apt install ofxstatement ofxstatement-plugins

You can check ofxstatement is working by running::

$ ofxstatement list-plugins

You should get a list of your installed plugins printed.

After installation, usage is simple::

$ ofxstatement convert -t bank_statement.csv statement.ofx

Resulting statement.ofx is then ready to be imported to GnuCash or other financial program you use.

Known Plugins

There are several user-developed plugins available:

================================= ============================================ Plugin Description ================================= ============================================ 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-unicreditcz_ Plugin for UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia 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-germany_ Plugin for several german banks (1822direkt and Postbank at the moment) 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-mbank-sk_ MBank.sk ofxstatement-be-keytrade_ KeytradeBank (Belgium) ofxstatement-be-ing_ ING (Belgium) ofxstatement-be-kbc_ KBC (Belgium) ofxstatement-be-argenta_ Argenta (Belgium) ofxstatement-betterment_ Betterment (https://www.betterment.com/) ofxstatement-simple_ Simple (the bank, https://www.simple.com/) JSON financial statement format ofxstatement-latvian_ Latvian banks ofxstatement-iso20022_ Support for generic ISO-20022 format ofxstatement-seb_ SEB (Sweden), it parses Export.xlsx for private accounts ofxstatement-alfabank_ AlfaBank (Russia), it parses movementList.csv for private accounts ofxstatement-paypal_ PayPal, it parses *.csv for private accounts ofxstatement-polish_ Support for some Polish banks and financial institutions ofxstatement-russian_ Support for several Russian banks: Avangard, Tinkoff, Sberbank (debit). ofxstatement-dab_ DAB Bank (Germany) ofxstatement-consors_ Consorsbank (Germany) ofxstatement-is-arionbanki_ Arion bank in Iceland ofxstatement-be-triodos_ Belgian Triodos Bank CSV statements ofxstatement-de-triodos_ German Triodos Bank CSV statements (also works for GLS Bank) ofxstatement-lansforsakringar_ Länsförsäkringar (Sweden), it parses Kontoutdrag.xls for private accounts ofxstatement-revolut_ Revolut Mastercard ofxstatement-sp-freiburg_ Sparkasse Freiburg-Nördlicher Breisgau (Germany) ofxstatement-al_bank_ Arbejdernes Landsbank (Denmark) ofxstatement-fineco_ FinecoBank (Italy) ofxstatement-intesasp_ Intesa San Paolo (xlsx balance file) ofxstatement-de-ing_ Ing Diba Bank (Germany) ofxstatement-us-first-republic_ First Republic Bank (USA) ofxstatement-cz-komercni_ Komerční banka (Czech Republic) ofxstatement-cd-tmb_ Trust Merchant Bank (DRC) ofxstatement-zm-stanbic_ Stanbic Bank (Zambia) ================================= ============================================

.. _ofxstatement-lithuanian: https://github.com/kedder/ofxstatement-lithuanian .. _ofxstatement-czech: https://gitlab.com/mcepl/ofxstatement-czech .. _ofxstatement-airbankcz: https://github.com/milankni/ofxstatement-airbankcz .. _ofxstatement-raiffeisencz: https://github.com/milankni/ofxstatement-raiffeisencz .. _ofxstatement-unicreditcz: https://github.com/milankni/ofxstatement-unicreditcz .. _ofxstatement-otp: https://github.com/abesto/ofxstatement-otp .. _ofxstatement-bubbas: https://github.com/bubbas/ofxstatement-bubbas .. _banking.statements.osuuspankki: https://github.com/koodaamo/banking.statements.osuuspankki .. _banking.statements.nordea: https://github.com/koodaamo/banking.statements.nordea .. _ofxstatement-germany: https://github.com/MirkoDziadzka/ofxstatement-germany .. _ofxstatement-austrian: https://github.com/nblock/ofxstatement-austrian .. _ofxstatement-postfinance: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ofxstatement-postfinance .. _ofxstatement-mbank-sk: https://github.com/epitheton/ofxstatement-mbank-sk .. _ofxstatement-be-keytrade: https://github.com/Scotchy49/ofxstatement-be-keytrade .. _ofxstatement-be-ing: https://github.com/jbbandos/ofxstatement-be-ing .. _ofxstatement-be-kbc: https://github.com/plenaerts/ofxstatement-be-kbc .. _ofxstatement-be-argenta: https://github.com/woutbr/ofxstatement-be-argenta .. _ofxstatement-betterment: https://github.com/cmayes/ofxstatement-betterment .. _ofxstatement-simple: https://github.com/cmayes/ofxstatement-simple .. _ofxstatement-latvian: https://github.com/gintsmurans/ofxstatement-latvian .. _ofxstatement-iso20022: https://github.com/kedder/ofxstatement-iso20022 .. _ofxstatement-seb: https://github.com/themalkolm/ofxstatement-seb .. _ofxstatement-alfabank: https://github.com/themalkolm/ofxstatement-alfabank .. _ofxstatement-paypal: https://github.com/themalkolm/ofxstatement-paypal .. _ofxstatement-polish: https://github.com/yay6/ofxstatement-polish .. _ofxstatement-russian: https://github.com/gerasiov/ofxstatement-russian .. _ofxstatement-dab: https://github.com/JohannesKlug/ofxstatement-dab .. _ofxstatement-consors: https://github.com/JohannesKlug/ofxstatement-consors .. _ofxstatement-is-arionbanki: https://github.com/Dagur/ofxstatement-is-arionbanki .. _ofxstatement-be-triodos: https://github.com/renardeau/ofxstatement-be-triodos .. _ofxstatement-de-triodos: https://github.com/pianoslum/ofxstatement-de-triodos .. _ofxstatement-lansforsakringar: https://github.com/lbschenkel/ofxstatement-lansforsakringar .. _ofxstatement-revolut: https://github.com/mlaitinen/ofxstatement-revolut .. _ofxstatement-sp-freiburg: https://github.com/omarkohl/ofxstatement-sparkasse-freiburg .. _ofxstatement-al_bank: https://github.com/lbschenkel/ofxstatement-al_bank .. _ofxstatement-fineco: https://github.com/frankIT/ofxstatement-fineco .. _ofxstatement-intesasp: https://github.com/Jacotsu/ofxstatement-intesasp .. _ofxstatement-de-ing: https://github.com/fabolhak/ofxstatement-de-ing .. _ofxstatement-germany: https://github.com/MirkoDziadzka/ofxstatement-germany .. _ofxstatement-us-first-republic: https://github.com/medovina/ofxstatement-us-first-republic .. _ofxstatement-cz-komercni: https://github.com/medovina/ofxstatement-cz-komercni .. _ofxstatement-cd-tmb: https://github.com/BIZ4Africa/ofxstatement-cd-tmb .. _ofxstatement-zm-stanbic: https://github.com/BIZ4Africa/ofxstatement-zm-stanbic

Advanced Configuration

While ofxstatement can be used without any configuration, some plugins may accept additional configuration parameters. These parameters can be specified in configuration file. Configuration file can be edited using edit-config command, that brings your favored editor with configuration file open::

$ ofxstatement edit-config

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

Sample configuration file::

[swedbank]
plugin = swedbank

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

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

To convert proprietary danske.csv to OFX danske.ofx, run::

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

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

Writing your own Plugin

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

.. _ofxstatement-sample: https://github.com/kedder/ofxstatement-sample