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From: jplw@theWoodwards.us
Subject: QIF Master 4.9
QIF Master makes it easier to enter banking, credit card, and
investment transactions into Quicken.
Bank and Credit Card Transactions: Many online banks and credit card
companies allow you to download recent transactions (checks, deposits,
credit card charges, etc.) into a file in the Quicken Interchange
Format (QIF), so that you can import these transactions into your
Quicken account. The problem with this approach is that typically the
bank has no way of assigning meaningful categories to the transactions.
So, if you care about categorizing your Quicken transactions, you must
go through each transaction you have just imported in Quicken, and add
categories. QIF Master automates this process.
Some banks and credit card companies also produce transaction histories
in QFX or OFX format. OFX is an open standard format, and QFX is a
Quicken-specific variant. Quicken can import QFX format (Quicken calls
this Web Connect) and match transactions with transactions already in
your register. This matching is useful, but if you like your
transactions automatically categorized, you might prefer to process the
QFX or OFX with QIF Master, which will convert it to QIF and add
categories. If all you have available is OFX, you cannot import it into
Quicken, but you can convert it to QIF and then import it.
QIF Master adds Quicken categories based on the description (e.g.
payee) of each transaction. To convert a QIF file, just drop it onto
QIF Master.Ê You can configure QIF Master as a browser helper
application for files of type application/qif to have it run
automatically on downloaded QIF files. The resulting file can then be
imported into Quicken.
Investment Transactions: Although recent versions of Quicken for the
Macintosh have allowed investment transactions to be downloaded into
Quicken, in many cases the downloads are incomplete and sometimes
wrong. An alternative approach is to use QIF Master to extract QIF from
your investment firm's transaction history web page and import that QIF
into Quicken. Investment information is not produced in QIF format by
the investment firms; to get QIF you must use QIF Master to convert the
transactions on the web page into QIF.
CSV Files: QIF Master will also convert comma-separated value (CSV)
files into QIF.
Finally, QIF Master also performs other useful transformations on any
financial data it can process, producing output data as CSV or
tab-separated entries in text files. Thus, QIF Master can convert
financial data from QIF, OFX, QFX, web pages, CSV, or tab-separated
value files into QIF, CSV, or tab-separated values files.