Open Financial Exchange
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Open Financial Exchange (OFX) arising from Microsoft's OFC and Intuit's Open Exchange is a data-stream format for exchanging financial information.
The OFX standard was announced on the 16 January 1997 by Microsoft, Intuit and CheckFree and was designed as a unified technical specification to converge their respective mechanisms. The specification allows for bank and application specific extensions, although only a subset is necessary to describe a financial transaction. Since the current version is a flavour of XML, it is simple to create well-formed OFX documents.
Versions 1.0–1.6 relied on SGML for data exchange whereas all versions since are XML based. According to the main OFX site: "The specification is freely licensed, allowing any software developer to design an interface that will be supported on the front-end."[1]
QFX is a proprietary variant of OFX used in Intuit's products. Confusingly, Intuit's documentation uses the term "OFX" when in reality the products only work with QFX. [2].
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[edit] List of software supporting OFX
- Accountz Personal (OFX file importing only) (for Mac OS X v10.4+, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux) [3]
- ACCPAC
- iBank [4] (for Mac OS X)
- iCompta [5] (for Mac OS X)
- GnuCash (since version 2.0)
- Microsoft Money
- Microsoft Office Accounting
- Moneydance
- KMyMoney
- Icarra [6]
- Apple iWork ’08, ’09 Numbers[7]
- Cha-Ching [8] (for Mac OS X)
- Aquamaniac Banking Interface [9]
- Squirrel [10] (for Mac OS X Leopard)
- Xero [11] (for PC, Mac and iPhone)
- SplashMoney [12] (for Windows, Mac, iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm, WM)
- ClearCheckbook.com [13] (web-based application) Import Only
- Simple Home Budget [14] (import only)
- Fortora Fresh Finance
- Google Finance
- You Need A Budget (YNAB)
[edit] OFX FI Data
[edit] References
- ^ "OFX FAQ". http://www.ofx.net/AboutOFX/AboutOFX.aspx.
- ^ http://www.quickencommunity.com/webx?14@@.efd1586/34
- ^ "Accountz website". http://www.accountz.com/.
- ^ "iBank website". http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/.
- ^ "iCompta website". http://angeman7.free.fr/iCompta/?language=en.
- ^ "Icarra website". http://www.icarra.com/.
- ^ Michaels, Philip; Dalrymple, Jim; Cohen, Peter (2007-08-07). "Spreadsheet app Numbers joins iWork '08". MacWorld. http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/08/07/iwork08/index.php. Retrieved on 2007-12-11.
- ^ "Cha-Ching website". http://www.midnightapps.com/.
- ^ "aqbanking". http://www.aquamaniac.de/sites/aqbanking/index.php.
- ^ "Squirrel website". http://www.squirrelapp.com/.
- ^ "Xero website". http://www.xero.com/.
- ^ "SplashMoney website". http://www.splashdata.com/splashmoney/.
- ^ "ClearCheckbook website". http://www.clearcheckbook.com/.
- ^ "Simple Home Budget website". http://www.home-budget-software.com/.
[edit] External links
- More information on the OFX specification
- MT2OFX: Tool for conversion among MT940 and OFX formats
- Free OFX library
- OFX4J: Free OFX implementation in Java
- OFX Press Release (copy)
- List of OFX connection details for banks that support OFX
- .NET OFX Library
- C# program that supports OFX transaction downloading
- OFX forums, list of verified OFX connection details
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