[kmymoney] [Bug 514627] Automation of transaction importing

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514627

--- Comment #4 from f8thfulshop at proton.me ---
Thanks for the update.  Then why is Quicken and a few others (e.g. Moneydance)
so privileged that they are able to do automatic updates?  Just curious. 




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On Thursday, January 15th, 2026 at 8:49 PM, Brendan <bugzilla_noreply at kde.org>
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> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514627
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> Brendan KDE at Coupe7.com changed:
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> --- Comment #3 from Brendan KDE at Coupe7.com ---
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> You are a little later to the party. I started using KMM 20 years ago. Back
> then you could use the Map Account option to connect to many banks and download
> your transactions easily. I had about 12 accounts mapped at the peak. Every
> night I would run "Update all accounts" and I would get all of the transactions
> from the 12 accounts in about 30 seconds. This was a very easy way to check to
> see if any suspicious transactions occurred. You would think the banks would
> support this option.
> 
> It wasn't always perfect but one of the developers would always work with me to
> figure out what was wrong and fix it. Usually the bank was not following the
> OFX spec. Many hours were spent keeping the feature working for me (thanks
> Thomas).
> 
> Over the past 10 years every bank I used stopped supporting Direct Connect (in
> the US). It has been many years since it worked on any of my banks. Most
> provide an OFX file that I can download and import. Hardly as convenient. One
> of my main banks only provides a CSV file, which does not import as seamlessly.
> Now I download my transactions once a week and each bank takes a few minutes.
> Very frustrating.
> 
> There used to be a site where you could find the settings required for direct
> connect called OFXHome.com. You could also see if your bank was working for
> others. That hasn't been around for a while.
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20190209122346/http://www.ofxhome.com/
> 
> I think Cory Doctorow explains it all in his book Enshitification.
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