Description abnimport

This program help to import bank transactions.

There are various programs to handle your personal financial data: Grisbi, GnuCash, HomeBank, KMyMoney. Most of these support file format called QIF.

Problem: The data exported by ABN-Amro bank is complex and difficult to import in other programs.

Workflow:

• use your web brouwser to open your page at the bank and download the transactions as a TAB file. (example 201705.TAB for all your transactions in may)
• run > abnimport -c 201705.TAB 201705.qif
• Than fire up Grisbi and use File -> Import file to import the transactions.

The developper is using Grisbi because it meet the needs and is relatively small install.

Note: To assign different categories to your transactions edit the file category.conf

Usage

abnimport.py [-h] [-c] [-v] inputfile outputfile

inputfile is the text file downloaded from ABN Amro.
outputfile is the qif file.

options:

• h = show help message
• c = categorise mutations
• v = verbose output

Features

• command line only.
• very few dependencies.
• designed and tested on Linux.
• open source python program, adapt to your needs.
• creates qif files accepted by many personal finance software.

Install

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/abnimport
• download .pyz and drop it where you want
• run with > python abnimport.pyz infile outfile

Category Documentation

see category

Dependencies

• python 3

Background

Over time i've been developping this program from a very poor early design idea several years ago. It's been a bit bumpy road as ABN change their file format every now and then without any warning.

program: Henk Speksnijder 20171218
website: Henk Speksnijder 20220520