QIF Converter Online Help

 

Dollar sign QIF Converter Online Help for Release 1.3.0

 

Index

  1. Introduction
  2. Main menu
  3. Working with QIF Converter
  4. Release notes

I. Introduction

This program is free to use for both private and business entities. You can redistribute it, in its entirety, but without asking for a compensation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. Any piece of software has some kind of bugs at a certain stage of the development process and this one will likely make no exception (although I always aim at perfection so I have high hopes!) therefore use it at your own risk.

QIF Converter allows you to translate (convert) a file from QIF format into a more readable one, such as TAB delimited text or Excel directly.

I wrote it when I was using Microsoft® Money, quite a while ago. Then my laptop broke down and on my new one I couldn’t make Microsoft® Money to read my data files and I found out that Microsoft® had dismissed Money! I was very disappointed but… that’s life in IT, isn’t it?

After that, I started to keep track of my expenses on a very simple Excel spreadsheet but I wanted to get also my old Money files in Excel and so I got QIF Converter out of the dust. I realized that there were a couple of bugs and missing tags in the original program so I decided to re-write it in Dot Net.

And so, here is a, hopefully, complete and working brand new version of QIF converter.

Developing a program such as this requires time and effort. If you find this program useful, please consider making a donation by visiting the page https://www.torgian.com/donations

 

II. Main Menu

  • File | Exit
    Closes QIF Converter.
  • Help | Getting Started
    Just an intro to help you out if you’re not too keen on long manuals.
  • Help | Online Help
    Takes you to this document.
  • Help | About
    Info about QIF Converter

 

III. Working with QIF Converter

QIF Converter is a very straightforward App.

  1. Firstly, type the name of the file that you want to convert in the ‘QIF file to import’ field, or use the browse button (magnifying glass ) on its immediate right and look for it on your disk drives.
  2. Then, in the ‘Export file name’ field type the name of the file that the program will create as output, or use the browse button as described in step 1.
  3. Finally, click on one of the ‘Export format options’, which allow you to choose the format for the output file:
    ‘Tabbed Text’ is just a plain text file with each field separated by a Tab delimiter. This format is readable by basically any spreadsheet program.
    ‘Excel’ is, quite obviously, the proprietary file format of Microsoft® Excel.
  4. ‘Other options’ allow you to do as follows:
    If you check the ‘Decode Fields (i.e. Cleared status)’, tags such as ‘Cleared status’ are decoded as: Blank values –> not cleared, “*” or “c” –> cleared and “X” or “R” –> reconciled.
    Invoice transaction type: 1 –> invoice, 3 –> payment.
    For a complete list of the QIF detail items and a thorough explanation please visit the following page:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Interchange_Format
    ‘Max Splits Imported’ is the number of split transactions you want to import. It defaults to 10 as I thought it would be a fair amount but you can enter up to 100.
  5. Now you can click the ‘Convert’ button to get your file converted.

 

IV. Release notes

QIF Converter release 1.3.0 addresses the following:

 

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