MatissJanis/bank2ynab

Easily convert and import your bank's statements into YNAB. This project consolidates other conversion efforts into one universal tool.

bank2ynab

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

Development:

Testing:

• What? (Features)
  • Wish List
• Why?
• How?
• Installation Instructions
  • Requirements
• User Guide
• Known Bugs
• List of Supported Banks

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!

• If you're "just a user":
  • tell us your import format and we can create a converter - for you and for everyone else!
  • use the converter provided here and give us feedback - or participate!
• If you've already built a YNAB converter:
  • take advantage of this project to get more import formats.
  • give back to this project by sharing your existing import formats.
• Add a brainstorming item as a new issue.
• Join the chat over at https://gitter.im/bank2ynab/Lobby
• See also: the wiki, perhaps most importantly this page about import formats.

Installation Instructions

• Download this ZIP file
• Note the Requirements for additional details!
• When you're done, refer to the User Guide below.

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

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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.