Re: [GNC] Importing investment info from Financial Planner's website

2019-05-28 Thread csingley
Just to summarize what people are telling you: GnuCash doesn't have any sort of functionality to automatically create accounts for an investment the first time it's seen, if that's what you're after. You will need to manually set up your accounts with beginning balances. It's not that bad, unles

Re: [GNC] Importing investment info from Financial Planner's website

2019-05-27 Thread David Carlson
Joseph, Look on your financial planners website for a link to export your data. Most investment firms have some such option, often near another option to download a PDF of your monthly statement. Since you say you used to do it with Quicken, they may have an option to download qfx or ofx format.

Re: [GNC] Importing investment info from Financial Planner's website

2019-05-27 Thread Joseph Hymel via gnucash-user
Thanks David T.  Just to clarify I am only interested in being able to import MY investment holdings from my financial planner's website via my login/password for that website. I have recently left Quicken software where I had that ability to import my investment info, and thought it might exis

Re: [GNC] Importing investment info from Financial Planner's website

2019-05-27 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Jo, Importing such information is typically a one- time process, and the time it would take to programmatically process all possible situations makes it expensive, from a programming perspective. The development team has focused on other areas. I doubt any developer would take up your request. 

[GNC] Importing investment info from Financial Planner's website

2019-05-27 Thread Joseph Hymel via gnucash-user
Hello,How do I import stock/bond mutual fund investment info from my financial planner's company website into gnucash software? I understand that I can setup each individual investment myself and have gnucash update the investments values daily, etc. I am interested in being able to setup the do