Apple Card data export options now include Quicken and QuickBooks file formats
In an unannounced iOS 13.5 feature addition, Apple's Wallet app can now export Apple Card transaction data in Quicken and QuickBooks file formats.
Source: Kyle Seth Gray via Twitter
The new feature, spotted by Kyle Seth Gray, allows Apple Card users to export monthly statement data in a format ingestible by popular Intuit financial tools Quicken and QuickBooks.
Apple is slowly building out Apple Card's software backend following what partner Goldman Sachs n 2019 called the "most successful credit card launch ever."
In January, Apple Card data transportability was goosed with support for CSV exports. Compatibility with the OFX file format followed in February.
While Intuit products, including Quicken, can technically read OFX files, native Quicken Financial Exchange (QFX) and QuickBooks (QBO) exports can streamline data offloading and reduce formatting errors.
To offload transactional data, users must select Apple Card in the Wallet app and navigate to Card Balance. From there, choose a monthly statement, tap on Export Transactions and select a file format. The resulting file can be shared via Share Sheets.
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1) Save the extract under Documents on iCloudDrive.
I've been using Quicken for over 20 years and this one of the annoying things about the Apple Card.
Now, we just need Quicken to make their Mac version as good and as identical to the Windows version as possible... because Quicken for Mac is awful. (I run Parallels just for Quicken for Windows.)
As far as direct downloads goes, that’s still a valid complaint. Having QFX exports is a huge improvement, but having to go to your phone, download and save the file, then go back to your computer, find the file and import it is still a pretty kludgy workflow. That seems like it would be GS and not Apple, so hopefully they will remedy it soon.
I only run the Windows version -- but I agree with your general point: Quicken under Intuit was getting worse and worse. But, now that they are on their own it seems to be getting better and better. They seem to be making a sincere effort to return the product to a high quality, reliable product.
But, access to your transactions only at the end of a month?
Since I rarely use cash, I track every financial transaction near real time -- this is not an accident. I suppose if you're making the big bucks, you don't have to care.
I can't image not recording and checking every transaction but once per month, and still being able to place each transaction in the correct category and each transaction assigned a description.
I'm not getting what you're driving at:
I think I get what you're driving at: Where Quicken can connect directly to the AppleCard @ GS in order to grab your data. Yeh, that would be nice, but I don't think it will happen because Apple has built another walled garden with their iPhone interface and I don't think they're going to open that up.