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by BeetleB 1515 days ago
I use KMyMoney which has probably the same "support" as GnuCash for online banking.

I now just download transacations from the institution (CSV, OFX, etc) and import the file. Many institutions charge extra for being able to pull automatically, but their export is free. Sounds like a pain but it isn't that bad.

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I've found that I appreciate the manual download and import process. It makes me look over each transaction more deliberately than I would if it were just an automated update. I've caught 3 or 4 fraudulent or erroneous charges over the past half decade because I'm forced to look at each charge on my credit cards.

Probably 90-95% of my spending goes on a credit card and then gets paid off at the end of the month. GnuCash has been great for tracking everything. I'll have to look at KMyMoney too.

I didn't mean to imply KMyMoney is necessarily better. I switched a decade ago as it had a better interface - but I don't even remember what aspect was better. I think it did a better job with autocompleting entries or something.