Getting Started Notes

IMPORTANT NOTES

Before importing into Quickbooks, back up your Quickbooks company file before importing
Before importing into your accounting softwre, back up your accounting software data file before importing
Before importing into Quicken, back up your Quicken or other accounting software data file before importing

Check dates - You can choose how dates are shown after parsing, you can adjust the input date format as the output date format if applicable
Expenses must be negative and payments to the account positive, use Change +/- once per file
Look for any reported issues on the Issues tab and fix them.
Transactions tab shows data after parsing. Click the Review Mapping button to reassign columns
Your CSV/Excel file must have the Category column with expense/income names as in QuickBooks
OFX/QBO/QFX files do not carry categories (expense/income account names), you can map the category as a memo
Use Account Name, Account Type columns in Review Mapping for multiple accounts on the same CSV/Excel file only

Try the OCR option for better parsing
Check dates - You can choose how dates are shown after parsing, you can adjust the input date format as the output date format if applicable
Expenses must be negative and payments to the account positive, use Change +/- once per file
Double-click the individual amount to adjust the sign of the specific amount

Check dates - You can choose how dates are shown after parsing, you can adjust the input date format as the output date format if applicable

Account Type - Checking or Credit Card, make sure to select it before converting.
Account Id - Enter the actual account number, change for different accounts

INTU.BID - Click the Look Up button to locate your bank or use any "allowed" value, for example. 3000 (Wells Fargo).
Bank ID - Leave empty unless you know you need to set it

Set the QIF Target - select the application you would like to import into, if not listed, select "MS Money or other"
For the QIF target, as "MS Money or other" set the required date format