[EDIT - ameridan provided link to additional input for USAA on 4/19/2011]
[EDIT - Cal added settings for Wells Fargo Advisors on 10/6/2011]
Thank you Cal for the nice review of both my OFFLINE Blog and Bobby’s PocketSense site. I am going to quote it here as it might provide assistance setting up FIDELITY Investments, Citi Card, and Vanguard accounts. Regarding your Janus account, my experience is that without the FID number, you won’t get an error, but you won’t get data either – instead you probably get a list of your account numbers.
I think this is how Money Online established the setup link of all accounts at any financial institution you engaged Online services for. If you’ve ever turned on logging in Money, you would note that you got 4 files for each set of transactions being downloaded (if you have multiple accounts, otherwise you only get 2). The first ***RQ.txt file was the initial OFX file being sent by Microsoft Money. The first ***RS.txt file was the response from the financial institution listing all of your account numbers. Then the program proceeded to add the FID and the ACCOUNT NUMBERS for each account resulting in the second ***RQ.txt file that serves to reveal all of the OFX parameters that you need to get the PocketSense scripts to work. It’s this second ***RQ.txt file that requests the OFX downloads for all of your accounts at that institution (***RS.txt).
PHWhite also offered this tidbit regarding Ameritrade, but probably true in many other instances:
I had to call TD Ameritrade because transaction downloads for my accounts had been locked out because of my failed attempts, so even if you are using the right parameters it may not work until you call to get your accounts enabled for transaction downloads. I also needed to have TD Ameritrade reset the passwords.
