Bank Transactions Records in dot net

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Hi I like to get my bank transaction the same way as Quicken gets it from Bank.
Are there APIs that I can call and pass login info to get the transactions
Thanks

Posted 2-Feb-11 5:23am

sean1332

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Yusuf · Answer 1 · 2011-02-02T06:21:00

Solution 2

Many banks allow customers to download their statement or transactions in many formats, such as Quicken, MS Money, Excel, CSV, PDF and etc. Check which formats your bank allows you to download. Then import the format you want to work with to your application.

This method is fail-safe. The bank may change the format at any time and break your implementation. You would need to keep up with the changes. Short of this, I doubt the bank will allow you to interface directly to them.

NOTE:
1. I mentioned Quicken, MS Money, etc for completeness. The chance of you using them are very remote, because, a) you will need to understand the format and extract the data, b) the format may change over-complicating your design.
2. Probably the simplest file format to work with might be CSV or Excel.

Good Luck!

Posted 2-Feb-11 6:21am

Yusuf

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sean1332 7-Feb-11 14:37pm

Thanks for your answer. I already do that, but I want it to make it like Mint.com

Yusuf 7-Feb-11 14:47pm

Please tell me you are not serious.
mint.com is owned by Intuit which makes Quickbook.

If you want to make it like mint, here is what you need
1. Come up with your own format
2. Let the banks adapt your format and allow you to download it.
3. Viola! you are in business.

sean1332 9-Feb-11 11:57am

You are wrong again. Mint started at 2005 with Aaron Patzer. I started using it before Intuit bought it.
Intuit had Quickbookonline which was not working as good as Min.com.

Yusuf 9-Feb-11 13:48pm

That might be the case, but in order for it to work, either a)they have to come up with a format and have the banks adapt it or b) they need to understand the different formats and support them. The later part is error prone and depends on the other formats integrity and not to be changed. If they change they mint will need to update their code base.

That was the core of my massage, not who started mint and how it got evolved.

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2011-02-02T06:35:00

Solution 3

Talk to the bank to see if they have an API's implemented that support what you need.

Posted 2-Feb-11 6:35am

Abhinav S

Jeff Circeo · Answer 3 · 2013-12-10T23:30:00

Solution 4

http://www.ofx.net/[^]
Open Financial Exchange (OFX) is a unified specification for the electronic exchange of financial data between financial institutions, businesses and consumers via the Internet. OFX is not a financial institution.

Posted 10-Dec-13 23:30pm

Jeff Circeo

Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 4 · 2011-02-02T05:28:00

Solution 1

Please tell me that you are not serious.
Are you expecting a bank to expose APIs to retrieve information.
Banking systems are one of the most closed and secured applications.

Posted 2-Feb-11 5:28am

Manas Bhardwaj

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sean1332 7-Feb-11 14:36pm

Yes I am serious, and I know it is very secure. If you go and get account on Mint.com, you will see, it extract your transactions from banks with your userid and password. This site at the beginning was started by just one developer.
thanks