Banking Software

[cricket]

Solution / : Banking

Description: Does anyone know of a good Filemaker solution for tracking bank accounts? I've searched on here and fmfiles.com and can't seem to find anything.

Thanks.

Edited January 7, 2007 by Guest

[cricket]

umm, anyone?

[cricket]

so, out of all the people on this site (are there a lot of people on this site?) no one has any idea about anything remotely relating to this??

is this thing on?

[mr_vodka]

I dont understand what you mean by tracking bank accounts. Most banks allow some sort of exporting history out of their bank accounts and then you can import this data, but actively tracking bank accounts, I dont think so.

[cricket]

I mean like Quicken or Microsoft Money or iBank for Mac. Just something like that. It doesn't have to connect to the bank online. Just let you keep track of all the transactions, etc. Like a computer checkbook.

[mr_vodka]

Ok, that makes more sense now. You mean a personal money management solution.

I have never used these but maybe you can take a look at them.

Bank Manager - Developed as a substitute for Quicken or Managing Your Money.

Money Tracker - Tracks your personal expenses.

[cricket]

Thanks for your response. Hmm, neither one of those work so well. The one is a Filemaker 3 file. And the other after decompressing the .sit file, I can't even open. Maybe because I'm on an Intel Mac? It just shows as a Unix executable.

Guess I'll just have to build my own if there's nothing out there.

[mr_vodka]

I downloaded them and converted them to .fp7 files but they solutions were not that great.

[The Gardener]

Hello,

You should relly have a look at Click Check, to be found on the same [web] page that Mr. Vodka pointed you to. Terrific piece of programming, Quicken - like. Developed by a wizard named Bob Cusick. Eventually he gave it away free, as a set of .fp5 files, which is when I got it and used it for sometime. I still have the file set and would gladly send it to you. Many people here could easily I'm sure, lever it up to take advantage of fm7 - 8x. To replace some complex scripting, etc.

* I will locate the files - on some disk, somewhere, and post them. I think the folder will be small enough to be able to post here.

Edited January 28, 2007 by Guest

[T-Square]

Maybe you're not seeing much out there because it's cheaper just to buy Quicken than to try and develop an accounting app all over again. I would have a really tough time justifying all that time and effort, when I could shell out $50 and be done with it...

If it's the principal of the thing (rather than the principle --ha ha!), you could look at GnuCash (www.gnucash.org), which is an open source double-entry accounting package that will run on any platform (given your time and effort to get it installed and compiled).

I followed this latter path when I migrated from Windows to the Mac, and found that Quicken was not able to use my Windows datafile natively on the Mac. Even with the bleeding edge of Intel Macs, I am impressed with the overall power of GnuCash.

HTH,

David