Santander withdraw support for .ofx transaction downloads

[smn159]

Alliance and Leicester, or should I say Santander, have just 'upgraded' their online banking service and withdrawn the facility to download statements in .OFX format.

This is a real pain for me as OFX made it really easy to download to my financial software package (YNAB), which would recognise which ones had already been imported and ignore them. None of the other formats (csv, qif, xls) seem to allow the recognition of already imported transactions.

Does anyone know a way around this, or can anyone tell me which UK banks still support the .ofx format?

[worsy]

My accounts package (XERO) recognises already imported transations using qif, so it sounds like your package is also an issue.

[smn159]

Thanks for the reply. My limited internet research suggests that QIF data doesn't have the unique identifier for transactions that OFX has, but I guess that some packages are able to have a stab at recognising duplicates (mime doesn't try to).

Annoying that something that worked well has been discontinued in favour of what would appear to be a step backwards

[worsy]

I found the Santander ofx didn't handle interest payments well, always giving it 00000000 as a unique id. I then had to manually amend them. If you google qif to ofx converter there are quite a few results.