Comments

Visit the PocketSense blog for comments and discussion about the scripts.

I personally disabled all "built-in" online connections in my copy of Microsoft Money early in the development cycle, and have been using the PocketSense scripts to get my "online" transactions since. So far, it's working great. If you decide to try it out, let me know how it works. I can't debug site-specific OFX issues, but I can try to fix issues in the software should they arise and can extend OFX support, if something is needed for a particular site.

I don't intend to port these scripts to Java or other platforms with a GUI interface. It is my strong opinion that the code be distributed as open-source, and that users should take a bit of time to understand how to set it up. I personally would not entrust my account information to a black box from someone I don't know, and I don't expect you to either. That's one of the nice features of these Python scripts. They're easy to read, and the source code is reasonably brief (for a developer), so anyone can look at the scripts themselves to see that nothing fishy is going on. An incredible amount of work is completed in very short bursts of code using Python, without all the GUI overhead and headaches. If you give the package a "jolly good try", I think you'll agree just how simple it is to configure and use. Even so, feel free to post to the PocketSense blog for help!