Comments on: Nationwide OFX Downloader

By: John

John — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:17:59 +0000

I never managed to get Nationwide’s OFX support to work with GnuCash whilst they were still supporting it, although I managed to get some sample OFX data. When they pulled the OFX support I ended up writing a script to read CSV files downloaded from their online banking interface and output OFX data which seems to work fine in GnuCash for me.

I’ve started a Bitbucket repo, in case anyone else would find the script useful. Note that it does not download the CSV file from Nationwide, you still need to do that yourself (that way I avoid a whole pile of security concerns).

http://bitbucket.org/huin/nw_csv_to_ofx/overview

By: John

John — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:47:25 +0000

Hi,

Does anyone still have this working? Since Nationwide pulled the plug on MS Money, I cannot get it to work:

11:45:47
Resolving hostname “pfmanagement.nationet.com” …
11:45:47
IP address is 155.131.31.101
11:45:47
Creating HTTPS connection
11:45:47
Connecting…
11:45:51
Sending request…
11:45:52
Waiting for response…
11:45:52
Parsing response…
11:45:52
Disconnecting…
11:45:52
Parsing response
11:45:52
Finished. You may close this window.

….but no accounts are downloaded

By: AlexMF

AlexMF — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:00:59 +0000

Just to save anyone else wondering why they can’t get this to work anymore: Nationwide have withdrawn their OFX support as of 22nd Oct 2009.

http://www.nationwide.co.uk/troubleshooting/MicrosoftMoney/MicrosoftMoney.htm

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:08:51 +0000

Nationwide removed their support for direct/non-direct OFX on 22nd October 2009 (

See http://bit.ly/4mjhYh

In an incredable show of ignorance they say they are removing support because Microsoft hasn’t updated MS Money since 2005. Complain if you can…

By: David Powell

David Powell — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:13:25 +0000

Where did you find the protocol for writing these scripts? I did not see it on OFX.net and I have googled for hours looking for a protocol document.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:26:43 +0000

I’ve added instructions to get GnuCash working with Nationwide provided by Mercurio here: http://www.terabytelabs.net/gnucash-and-nationwide/

By: squizzar

squizzar — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:46:54 +0000

Mercurio, could you let me (and the world) know how you got this to work with GnuCash, it would be greatly appreciated. I assume you used the aqbanking plugin/wizard, where did you enter the details?

By: Mercurio

Mercurio — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:04:58 +0000

Thanks for the info. I got it working finally!

By: alex

alex — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:01:27 +0000

Here are the settings I used to download from Nationwide:

OFXSERVERURL=https://pfmanagement.nationet.com/OFXSecurity/OFX_SSL_128.dll
OFXORG=MFS_ORG
OFXFID=MFS_FID
BANKID=070116

Nationwide do appear to be following the OFX spec quite closely so I don’t know of any reason why it shouldn’t work with the correct details. However, I’ve found that neither Moneydance nor GNUCash seem to work at all when entering the above details. Maybe you will have better luck though.

By: Mercurio

Mercurio — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:31:13 +0000

Hi,

I am trying to connect to Nationwide using gnucash and not having much luck.
Looked at your postings on moneydance and code and wondered if you could help as I am stuck.

Gnucash instructions says that I need a Bank ID, FID tag, ORG tag (also called FIORG) tag and the Broker ID. It suggests that the Bank ID = FID and is a 5 digit number and the Broker ID is blank.

Is the FIORG a unique number or the same for everyone’s account? Any idea what the ORG tag would be?

Anyhelp is greatly appreciated

Thanks