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Drastically improved CSV imports

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Until now, we had a very restrictive format in which we accepted CSV files for import. This was a big pain not only because of the strict format, but because one would need to manually convert (into the format we required) a bank-downloaded CSV every single time one wanted to import.

Not anymore.

We now accept almost all formats for CSVs as long as each transaction line contains at least the following fields:

date, description and amount

Each line may also contain an optional tag field.

These fields may occur in any order which we will try our best to identify. We will also try our best to get rid of the garbage that most banks like spewing in their CSV files. If we don’t succeed, we will ask you for help — only one time per account. So once you have set this up, future CSV imports into that account will all be achieved with a single click.

Enjoy!