Difference between revisions of "OFX Direct Connect Bank Settings"

Revision as of 20:06, 26 May 2011

Here are some settings for banks and credit cards. Follow this link for instructions on setting up OFXDirectConnect in GnuCash 2.

"Bank Name" may not be significant. "ORG" may be case sensitive. "Bank Code" is probably not used for credit cards, but may be critical for bank accounts (Note: 2.4.0 doesn't seem to enable the "Online Actions" menu if the Bank Code is not defined. It can be set to some nonsense numerical value like "1" as a workaround). It is usually the same as the bank's ABA routing number. You can find routing numbers here: [1]. Userid and Username are usually the same.

If your bank does not appear on the list, you can attempt to contact your bank (usually does not work). Or you can check out http://www.ofxhome.com/ which has a searchable database of OFX information. When you do find the right settings, please add them to this page! Intuit lists banks' OFX support at [2]. There are different icons for Direct Connect and Web Connect.

Note on BofA, CA: The information listed here was verified to work for BofA California. It will most likely work with BoA accounts in other States. You need to call 1-800-792-0808 and ask the CSR to "enable transaction downloading in Quicken". There may be a $9.95 monthly charge for this convenience for consumer customers. But the fee is waived for me because I have monthly direct deposit. Once enabled, you can download transactions for all the accounts that are linked in your online banking. Other information you may need to set up the OFX Direct Connect is BankID = "121000358". --DS 14:08, 5 December 2006 (EST) As of 2007-10-29 direct connect is not available in WA and ID, it should function in all other states.

Note on BofA, NY: As of 2009-04-06: Shown here are the 'settings.conf' entries which allow download for BofA credit card accounts out of New York. A call was required to enable Quicken download--there was initial resistance to attempting to enable this for a credit card only account. They didn't balk at the mention of GnuCash, but mentioned they didn't have instructions to assist in setup. There was no mention of any monthly fee associated with having the service enabled. This may work for accounts outside of NY (YMMV). After entering the bankName as the bankCode (051000017) the account download feature works. Once the accounts are downloaded and assigned then the transactions can be downloaded. (This is all from GnuCash 2.2.8. after following the instructions for setting up OFXDirectConnect in GnuCash 2 with respect to correcting OFX download failures on Windows.)

  users {
    user {
      int  uniqueId="335"
      char backendName="aqofxconnect"
      char userName="<your name>"
      char userId="<your id>"
      char customerId="<your id>"
      char country="US"
      char bankCode="051000017"
      int  lastSessionId="0"
      data {
        backend {
          char fid="6805"
          char org="HAN"
          char serverType="https"
          char serverAddr="https%3A%2F%2Fofx.bankofamerica.com%2Fcgi%2Dforte%2Fofx?servicename%3Dofx%5F2%2D3%26pagename%3Dbofa "
          char flags="account%5Flist", "statements"
        } # backend
      } # data
    } # user
  } #users
  accounts {
    account {
      int  uniqueId="336"
      char country="US"
      char bankCode="051000017"
      char accountNumber="<cc number>"
      int  user="335"
      char bankName="051000017"
      int  accountType="2"
      char accountName="Credit card <cc number>"
      char provider="aqofxconnect"
      provider {
      } # provider
    } # account
  } # accounts

Note on American Express: "ORG" must be AMEX (case sensitive).

Note on Charles Schwab Bank: Does not work with brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab. Chad.burrus 11:07, 12 January 2008 (EST)

Account type must be set to "Checkings", or "CHECKING", as it appears in the OFX request. Account number may need to be padded with leading zeros to make it 17 characters [3] Indigo 04:38, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Note on Capital One - credit card: Customer service states that Capital One does not support Direct Connect services for credit card accounts (as of 6/15/09). However, a manual download of transactions from the web browser online access in ofx format, and subsequent import into GnuCash, is possible and works well.

Further note on Charles Schwab: I have been able to access a Schwab Brokerage account with the following settings: FID: 5104; ORG: ISC; Broker ID: Schwab.com; Server URL: [https://ofx.schwab.com/cgi_dev/ofx_server] (Some of this info came from: [4]) Using this connection setup I can connect and download the correct account numbers in aqbanking druid. However when I try to download balance or transaction info from the Gnucash account register, the download appears to run, logs "success," but then Gnucash crashes. --Jdbosmaus 01:38, 21 February 2008 (EST)

[https://ofx.scbwab.com/cgi_dev/ofx_server] is phishing site, they are stealing passwords. It's not a schwab website. --Kazia 17:34, 15 November 2008 (EST)

Note on Chase: OFX access may need to be enabled by visiting https://resources.chase.com/secure/CustomerCenter.aspx Customer Center / Reference Center / Tools / Activate Money, Quicken, etc.

Note on E*Trade: Only seems to work with brokerage accounts. E*Trade has another ABA number you might try as the bankCode 056073573, this Server URL is also mentioned https://64.14.19.49/DataFeedAPI/ , also you could try a brokerId of "etrade.com". This link says that E*Trade bank only supports Web Connect not OFX http://web.intuit.com/personal/quicken/details.cfm?type=basic&fidetails=E%2ATrade%20Bank&qwid=qw1600&qmid=qm1600&qbid=qb1700&qbmid=qbm1700&country=

Note on U.S. Bank: Fee $3.95/month for home user, $9.95-12.95/month for business.

Note on Vanguard: Set HTTP Version to 1.1 (1.0 will not work)

Note on Wells Fargo: You must enable (and pay for) OFX access to your account. Instructions here. If you have a PMA relationship contact your Wells banker, they may waive the OFX access fees.

OFX DirectConnect information download

Extensive (and probably near-complete) OFX DirectConnect information can also be auto-downloaded to your computer from a major accounting software provider's web archives by using the script found at http://www.jongsma.org/gc/. This script uses the programs curl, xmllint and tidy (on Debian/Ubuntu aptitude install curl tidy). If you don't have these programs installed, the error messages are cryptic, so if it is not working first verify you have curl and tidy installed.

Use the commands:

   wget http://www.jongsma.org/gc/bankinfo/getfidata.sh.gz

then

   gzip -d getfidata.sh.gz

• open up getfidata.sh in your favorite editor

• find and replace "2006" with "2008" to retrieve more updated xml files

• replace VER=6 with VER=9
• make sure you have "tidy" installed ("sudo aptitude install tidy" or "sudo yum install tidy")

then

   bash getfidata.sh -d

This will download, according to the above webpages, "thousands of XML files," however finding this information on the web is difficult at best.

Once the files are downloaded, you will have a "fidata" zip file. Unpack it, and inside you will find three xml files (if you have all three dependant programs, as listed on the jongsma.org webpage), bank.xml, brokerage.xml and creditcard.xml. Open the one you want to search an institution for (such as in Firefox), search for your bank's name. Within that xml listing, you will find it's "<guid>," which corresponds to the xml file number under the "fi" directory you will see alongside these three main xml files.

Open the number listed as the "<guid>" for your bank: "<guid>6756</guid>" corresponds to 6756.xml in the fi folder.

This file will contain the information needed to get GNUCash's OFX DirectConnect working with your bank's OFX DirectConnect feature.