Chrome Extension - Request Manual Bank Feed

[woter324]

Continuing the discussion from Manual Bank Feed - Barclays:

@woter324

P.S.

On a slightly different subject, but another feature request. When marking an item as paid from the business bank account in the Purchases screen, it logs an entry on the bank statement. When the system synchronises with the bank statement, there is a duplicate transaction. When tagging the fed in item, it would be good if it would detect that it’s already in the QF bank statement.

Can a way to manually feed from the bank statement be devised, as opposed to waiting until 4am?

Thanks

Hi Glenn,

I’m aware of this method, but it’s a bit clunky and as the name implies, relies on Chrome. Whatever the automation is that occurs at 4am, could a simple button not be created in QF itself that is cross-browser compatible, running the same code then it would be sleek and easy like the rest of QF.

Thanks

W.

[Glenn]

@woter324

could a simple button not be created in QF itself that is cross-browser compatible, running the same code then it would be sleek and easy like the rest of QF.

Unfortunately there’s a limit to how sleek you can make something when you’re interfacing with a 3rd party that has no API. The automated feed we use for Barclays uses a very error prone method of screen scraping, which is essentially just scraping the html and filling out the forums, cycling through the pages.

Two days ago Barclays changed a big chunk of their CSV export routine which instantly broke the feed and required 5 hours of developer time to fix. Pulling these feeds in real time is simply not feasible until Barclays provide an open API.

I would suggest up-voting this thread here and perhaps eventually something will happen.

https://www.yourbank.barclays.co.uk/t5/Your-products/Data-feed-with-Quick-File-and-other-accounting-applications/idi-p/20811

For manual feeds you’d need to use our Chrome Extension for the time being.