We use Xero and AIB and we have the same problems. To help overcome them we developed a little online tool at http://xero.kro.ie/. It uploads an AIB file and gives you back a Xero ready CSV file.

I would like to do the same for Ulster Bank with your help. Would you mind sending me some exported files from Ulster Bank (please don’t make any changes except if you wish to change your bank account number and some figures for privacy please do so carefully so as the format is kept).

I will give you credit and a link to your website in return. You should have my email but if not there is a link on the website.

Thank you

Ruairi

Thought I would loop around seeing as we did a bit more work on the CSV import when we introduced Fast Cash Coding at the end of last year. I wanted to mention that you don’t have to have the 2 new columns ‘Account Code’ and ‘Tax Rate’ present in the CSV file you import, in fact there are only 2 columns that are mandatory – one mapped to ‘Transaction Date’ and one mapped to ‘Transaction Amount’. Usually there will be more columns than this in the file downloaded from a bank, but if not, and you don’t need them, you can import a CSV with just those 2 columns.

Here’s the updated page from Help Centre on Importing a CSV and specifically the section about the CSV format: http://help.xero.com/#BankAccounts_Details_ImportTransCSV$BK_CSV and also the information on Cash Coding http://help.xero.com/#BankAccounts_Details_FastCode

Hope this helps.
Catherine

http://icreateofx.co.uk/basic.php