![]() ![]() Thus I had to manually enter every transaction that I made – which is quite a bummer. What’s worse is that DBS doesn’t provide any plain-text export of my credit card transaction history. What’s worse is that I had to do it every time I reconcile my savings account. Rows 5 and 7 are empty – CSV aren’t supposed to have empty rows.īecause of this data format problem, I had to manually clean up all the CSV “errors” of the file that DBS provides before feeding it to MoneyWell. ![]() There are other headers besides just the column header – range A1:B4. ![]() As you can see, it’s not a pure CSV because: The screenshot below shows DBS’ CSV dump when imported to Microsoft Excel. They say it’s CSV but it’s not really CSV. Perhaps I was born in the wrong side of the world? DBS Bank’s pseudo-CSV formatĭBS Bank provides CSV export of transaction history of savings account. Neither DBS/POSB (Singapore) nor BCA (Indonesia) – the two banks that I use – supports DirectConnect nor provides QIF/OFX export of transaction data. What’s bad is that I haven’t seen any bank that offer these. That’s fine if your bank provides these interfaces. The ProblemĪlmost all personal finance applications that I see expects a QIF import or need to talk to the bank’s Internet Service directly via DirectConnect or OFX protocols. These applications are programmed with US banks in mind and rarely makes it easy to use financial institutions outside the US. One of my big complaints that haven’t been solved by these personal finance applications – Quicken or MoneyWell – is reconciling transactions with the banks that I use. #MONEYWELL SOFTWARE WINDOWS#I’ve been doing this for quite some time now, originally with Quicken for Windows and its companion app for PalmOS. I’m using MoneyWell as my personal finance application and it has been doing an OK job so far. It’s that time of the month for me to reconcile my financials. ![]()
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