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Synchronize accounts with over 300 banks or credit cards
November 21st, 2007 by Shashank
We are really glad to announce that Buxfer now supports “auto” downloading of your transactions from over 300 banks, credit unions and credit card institutions. Here’s the list of currently supported institutions:
As before, you will need to enter your bank / credit-card password every time you synchronize. We will NEVER store that password. It’s a trade-off between security and convenience we must have until we work out a smarter way.
This feature is currently in a BETA stage, so if you encounter any problems please let us know. Similarly, if your institution is not yet supported (especially for international users), please get in touch with us. We will soon be releasing support for syncing with international banks as well, so we sure wouldn’t mind some helpful early testers :)
Update: A few of our users have asked us how we obtain data from the financial institutions. For most of the institutions listed above, we use the Direct OFX Connect protocol used by Quicken, MS Money, MoneyDance and other desktop softwares. Note that this means that for some institutions (e.g., Chase banking, etc.), our users may need to explicitly enable (and sometimes, even pay for) “Quicken download”. That said, we are constantly working on improving this feature to remove some of these limitations.
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26 Responses to “Synchronize accounts with over 300 banks or credit cards”
Fabian: yes, I remember you had requested this the last time we announced auto-synchronization as well. I am exploring this now and will get back to you as soon as I have made some progress.
[...] Like Mint and the others, Buxfer has introduced a way to let you easily synchronize your financial accounts from Bank of America, American Express, Citibank credit cards, Chase credit cards, and more than 300 others with your personal finance information on its site. It uses Google Gears to download your financial account information to an offline Buxfer component that lives on your computer, that syncs with your online Buxfer account. It’s the company’s policy to never story sensitive user information on its servers, include your bank account passwords. It accesses the data stored on your Google Gears database on your computer, and authenticates you and your information with your financial institution. You can delete the data or make it unavailable to Buxfer whenever you want. [...]
quicken and other financial desktop software work with most canadian banks what about Royal Bank of Canada and TD Canada TRust, the 2 largest banks in Canada. They have millions of customers and most people use the net to access to their accounts.
if you can do this, ping me at the email address and i will blog about it at montrealtechwatch.com
If you add the big 5 Canadian banks to your synchronize feature, you’d go a long way to providing some value to the core facebook-myspace generation. That is, Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Toronto Dominion Canada Trust (TD), and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Unlike the states, there’s no need to add 300 banks to the list to get most of the customers. Those 5 would just about do it. Duane
I’m using Nationwide Building Society, UK, both credit card and normal savings/online accounts (apparently one of the few UK ones to support some kind of direct connection) and Credit Suisse Switzerland. Neither seems to be supported with or without Firebux. Is there any chance of this being added soon?
I see you support SunTrust, but I can’t get it to work. I’ve tried auto-syncing through the website and even tried Firebux. No dice either way. I do have and pay for the online banking and can manually download my transactions in about 5 different (supportable) formats which work great when I upload these manually.
Has anyone had success auto-syncing a SunTrust account?
Aston: we have updated our support for quite a few banks. The prominent ones include Regions Bank, Sun Trust (Consumer Banking) and Citizens Bank. Can you try again and see if things work now?
If you add Bank of the West, I would consider using your service. I’m currently using Quicken online and like it, it’s reliable (after a rocky start) but doesn’t track my cash expenses and is limited on tracking all categories (it lumps alot into the “other” category.
I’d like to give yours a try, but need the bank synced in.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Awesome work! How about adding Westpac (www.westpac.co.nz)? It has a fairly big userbase here in New Zealand and a solid web interface.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Fabian: yes, I remember you had requested this the last time we announced auto-synchronization as well. I am exploring this now and will get back to you as soon as I have made some progress.
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:07 am
How about National Australia Bank while you’re at it? nab.com.au. It’s one of the larger Australian banks.
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 am
Can you add “E*Trade Bank” and “Bank of America (Credit)” ?
January 4th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
[...] Like Mint and the others, Buxfer has introduced a way to let you easily synchronize your financial accounts from Bank of America, American Express, Citibank credit cards, Chase credit cards, and more than 300 others with your personal finance information on its site. It uses Google Gears to download your financial account information to an offline Buxfer component that lives on your computer, that syncs with your online Buxfer account. It’s the company’s policy to never story sensitive user information on its servers, include your bank account passwords. It accesses the data stored on your Google Gears database on your computer, and authenticates you and your information with your financial institution. You can delete the data or make it unavailable to Buxfer whenever you want. [...]
January 5th, 2008 at 9:59 am
hey guys,
quicken and other financial desktop software work with most canadian banks
what about Royal Bank of Canada and TD Canada TRust, the 2 largest banks in Canada. They have millions of customers and most people use the net to access to their accounts.
if you can do this, ping me at the email address and i will blog about it at montrealtechwatch.com
January 8th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
If you add TCF Bank and ING Direct (USA)… then I would create an account.
January 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
@John: BofA - credit cards is available now, and so is Washington Mutual. Enjoy!
January 10th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Hey Guys,
Great work!!! Really great work from IITians… :)
I am from India living out in Phoenix, AZ and will be glat to help you with testing of International banks as I have accounts in India.
Let me know (email me) if you need my help.
Best luck!
February 27th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
If you add the big 5 Canadian banks to your synchronize feature, you’d go a long way to providing some value to the core facebook-myspace generation. That is, Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Toronto Dominion Canada Trust (TD), and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Unlike the states, there’s no need to add 300 banks to the list to get most of the customers. Those 5 would just about do it.
Duane
May 14th, 2008 at 6:16 am
I’m using Nationwide Building Society, UK, both credit card and normal savings/online accounts (apparently one of the few UK ones to support some kind of direct connection) and Credit Suisse Switzerland. Neither seems to be supported with or without Firebux. Is there any chance of this being added soon?
May 31st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I want to second the request for you to include E*Trade. As soon as this happens, I will move from Mint to Buxfer.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I’d love to see TD Banknorth added. Thanks!
June 24th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
@Jamie: I have just added TD Banknorth — could you please try it out and let me know if it works?
June 27th, 2008 at 10:49 am
I see you support SunTrust, but I can’t get it to work. I’ve tried auto-syncing through the website and even tried Firebux. No dice either way. I do have and pay for the online banking and can manually download my transactions in about 5 different (supportable) formats which work great when I upload these manually.
Has anyone had success auto-syncing a SunTrust account?
July 1st, 2008 at 2:12 am
Aston: we have updated our support for quite a few banks. The prominent ones include Regions Bank, Sun Trust (Consumer Banking) and Citizens Bank. Can you try again and see if things work now?
July 5th, 2008 at 8:37 am
If you add Bank of the West, I would consider using your service. I’m currently using Quicken online and like it, it’s reliable (after a rocky start) but doesn’t track my cash expenses and is limited on tracking all categories (it lumps alot into the “other” category.
I’d like to give yours a try, but need the bank synced in.
Thanks
July 17th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Another vote for Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Yet another vote for RBC (Canada). As it has a rotating secret question for every login, Buxfer currently is useless to me
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 am
Good post.
October 25th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I’m using RBC (Canada) too and without auto-sync available, it’s a show-stopper for me. Hope to see it supported soon :)
November 11th, 2008 at 9:17 am
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June 16th, 2009 at 7:52 am
How about adding some Credit Unions, INSIGHT FINANCIAL would get me to sign up!
September 15th, 2009 at 11:31 am
hi today i was trying to sync with discover bank online account….it’s not pulling up in the list ….could u add up this bank to ur list as well….
regards
ashwin.
October 31st, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Royal Bank and TD are the largest banks in Canada. Buxfer is just another online money management tool without the automated sync functionality.
-g