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bank2ynab

This project consolidates other conversion efforts into one universal tool that easily converts and imports your bank's statements into YNAB.

Development: GitHub issues by-label GitHub open issues GitHub last commit PRs welcome! Join the chat at https://gitter.im/bank2ynab/Lobby

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What? (Features)

Convert your downloaded bank statements into YNAB's input format. Here's what this script does, step by step:

  1. Look for and parse the bank2ynab.conf. This file contains all the rules and import formats.
  2. Look for and parse every CSV file in the configured download directory.
  3. If the CSV file matches any of the configured formats:
    1. Create a new CSV file in YNAB's CSV format with the correct columns and a blank Category column.
    2. Optionally delete the original CSV file.

Wish List

  • add many more input formats from all the other YNAB-CSV-conversion projects.
  • maybe coming later: automatically download your bank statements? (uses external services; only available in some countries)
  • maybe coming later: automatically import the converted data into your YNAB app? (optional, default off)

Why?

There are currently more than 80 GitHub projects related to YNAB converter scripts. Clearly there's a need, but until now these solutions have been fragmented. The present project "bank2ynab" aims to focus the efforts on a common source that encapsulates a large number of bank formats. This will also provide a common basis for a solution using a variety of programming languages.

How? Contribute!

Installation Instructions

Requirements

  • Windows or Mac or Linux
  • Python v3.5+ installed (download it from python.org) (Python v2.7 might work but we make no promises; Py2 has end-of-life on 01Jan2020.)
  • Support for other scripting languages may follow. Contributions are welcome!

User Guide

Using bank2ynab is easy:

  1. Download some bank statements from your banking website.
    • Make sure to choose CSV format. Save with the default suggested filename so that the converter can find it.
    • It's okay if the statements contain data that you already have in YNAB. YNAB will detect and skip these.
  2. Check the [DEFAULT] configuration in user_configuration.conf. You only need to do this once. Specifically:
    • Source Path = c:\users\example-username\Downloads Specify where you save your downloaded CSV files.
    • Delete Source File = True set to False if you want to keep the original CSV you downloaded.
  3. Check that the configuration in bank2ynab.conf contains a [SECTION] for your banking format. You only need to do this once per bank you use. If you can't find your bank in the config, tell us your bank's format and we can add it to the project.
  4. Install the required dependencies by navigating to the bank2ynab directory in your command line and entering the following - pip install -r requirements.txt or pip3 install -r requirements.txt.
  5. Run the bank2ynab.py conversion script to generate the YNAB-ready CSV output file. How to do this depends on your operating system:
    • Windows: Open a command prompt, navigate to the script directory, and run the command python bank2ynab.py.
      • Pro tip: Create a program shortcut! Right-click on the bank2ynab.bat file, choose Send to and then choose Desktop (create shortcut). Now you can just double-click that shortcut!
    • Linux/Mac: Open a terminal, navigate to the script directory, and run the command python3 ./bank2ynab.py.     - Important: Be sure to use python3 specifically, and not python or python2 which is probably the system default.
  6. Depending on your configuration, the conversion script will now import your files into YNAB automatically, or you can add the files manually:
    • Automatic import (when you have provided your YNAB API access token:
      • The conversion script will now ask you which budget it should use to import your converted CSV file to (if you have multiple). It will also ask you which account inside the budget to use (if you have multiple); you'll only have to answer this question once.
    • Manually drag-and-drop the converted CSV file onto the YNAB web app:
      • YNAB will detect this and offer you import options. If you had already switched YNAB to the corresponding account view, YNAB will understand that you want to import this file to this account.

Known Bugs

For details, please see our issue list labeled "Bug".

List of Supported Banks

Here is a list of the banks and their formats that we already support. Note that we have many more formats in the pipeline so the list continues to grow, and we are happy to receive requests. In alphabetical order (country and bank):

  1. AT easybank credit card
  2. AT Raiffeisen Bank 2018
  3. AT Raiffeisen Bank RCM
  4. AT Raiffeisen Bank 2019 checking
  5. AT Raiffeisen VISA
  6. AU ANZ
  7. AU ING
  8. AU National Australia Bank
  9. BE KBC checking
  10. BE KBC credit
  11. BE Keytrade Bank
  12. BR Banco do Brasil, checking
  13. BR Inter, checking
  14. CA TD Canada Trust, checking+Visa
  15. CH ZKB Erweiterte Suche
  16. CH ZKB Finanzassistent-Chronik
  17. CZ AirBank checking and savings
  18. CZ Ceska Sporitelna
  19. CZ Raiffeisen bank
  20. DE Commerzbank checking
  21. DE Consorsbank checking
  22. DE Deutsche Bank
  23. DE Deutsche Bank Credit Card
  24. DE Deutsche Kreditbank checking
  25. DE Deutsche Kreditbank credit card
  26. DE Fiducia (Volksbank, Sparda-Bank, BBBank, PSD Bank, Raiffeisen, ...)
  27. DE ING-DiBa
  28. DE Kreissparkasse
  29. DE N26
  30. DE Ostseesparkasse Rostock checking
  31. DE Ostseesparkasse Rostock credit card
  32. DE Sparkasse Rhein-Neckar-Nord
  33. DE Sparkasse Südholstein
  34. DK Bankernes EDB Central
  35. DK Jyske Bank VISA
  36. DK Nordea
  37. DK Sparkassen Thy
  38. HU Erste Bank checking
  39. HU OTP
  40. IE AIB Ireland
  41. IE Bank of Ireland
  42. IE N26
  43. IE Ulster Bank, savings
  44. IT RomagnaBanca Inbank
  45. Mint
  46. MV Bank of Maldives, checking
  47. NETELLER
  48. NL Bunq checking
  49. NL bunqDesktop software
  50. NL bunqDesktop software 2
  51. NL ING
  52. NL ING Checking 2020
  53. NL Rabobank
  54. NL Rabobank-2018
  55. NO DNB
  56. NO Sparebank 1 VISA
  57. Personal Capital
  58. PL mBank
  59. SE Handelsbanken
  60. SE Länsförsäkringar checking
  61. SE Nordea - internetbanken.privat.nordea.se
  62. SE Nordea - netbank.nordea.se
  63. SE SEB Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
  64. SE Sparbanken Tanum
  65. SE Swedbank
  66. SE Swedbank 2019
  67. SG OCBC Bank
  68. SG POSB savings
  69. SK Tatra Banka
  70. SK VUB
  71. UK Co-operative Bank
  72. UK Monzo checking
  73. UK Barclaycard credit card
  74. UK Barclaycard Business Credit Card
  75. UK first direct checking
  76. UK John Lewis Partnership Card
  77. US Bank of America
  78. US Bank of America Credit Card
  79. US BB&T
  80. US Chase Credit Card 2017
  81. US Chase Credit Card 2019
  82. US Schwab Checking
  83. US Schwab Savings
  84. US TB Bank
  85. US USAA

XKCD on standards: Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.


Disclaimer: Please use at your own risk. This tool is neither officially supported by YNAB (the company) nor by YNAB (the software) in any way. Use of this tool could introduce problems into your budget that YNAB, through its official support channels, will not be able to troubleshoot or fix. See also the full MIT licence.

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