In my HSBC personal account, there is now the option to download the previous 12 months transactions “in the midata standard format”. Does QuickFile support this?
I’d not heard of midata, read up a little bit about it here, it seems it was introduced for price comparisons.
What are the advantages over CSV, QIF, OFX?
Hi Glenn. I’ve just dug a little. It downloads the previous 12 months as a CSV sheet, so it’s no different to downloading individual statements as far as QF’s concerned. Could be useful for people to be aware of if they’re just setting QF up.
Although, having said that, it only shows one-off transactions, not DDs, Interest Charges, etc. so probably not much use after all!
If it were a complete record of all transactions covering 12 months it would be useful.
Anyway I will leave the thread open, should the format change in the future.
I have downloaded the midata format and Quickfile seems to hang when importing.
Annoying, because I upgraded to have the open banking, and then found out it only imports a few months historical data, which is not much use to me. So I have downloaded the midata for 5 years in separate yearly files, and none of them will import using the import feature.
What file format is expected for FirstDirect?
Hello @Reiner_Singh
It downloads the previous 12 months as a CSV sheet, so it’s no different to downloading individual statements as far as QF’s concerned. Could be useful for people to be aware of if they’re just setting QF up.
As per previous comments you should be able to download in CSV format