Download Transactions from your Broker

“I have recently installed the upgrade to v5.0 of BI Portfolio Manager; it's great! I especially like the new home page, the easy navigation, and all the new features. I feel it is most definitely worth the purchase price. The new feature I like the best is the ability to download and post transactions from my broker who is E*Trade; it works flawlessly. I have a portfolio of dividend paying stocks, and some of them pay a monthly dividend; thus, updating my portfolio with the distributions is much faster and more accurate. Thanks for your fantastic upgrade.” - Paul S.

BetterInvesting Portfolio Manager is able to download from online financial institutions your recent investment transaction activity, such as purchases, sales, income and reinvestment activity. The ability for downloading transactions from online financial institutions is designed for users that have already created historically accurate portfolios, and have their transaction history relatively up to date in Portfolio Manager. Since most financial institutions only provide up to 18 months of past activity (often less), users will want to verify their portfolios reflect historically accurate balances up to the start date selected for the data download.

Note: If the online financial institution you use is not listed in our available choices, you might like to contact them and request they provide support for Open Financial Exchange (OFX) for use in BetterInvesting Portfolio Manager. Please direct all questions to techsupport@quantixsoftware.com. BetterInvesting Portfolio Manager is also able to import a transaction file (OFX, QFX) provided by many online financial institutions. This is a helpful option in case your financial institution is not provided in our list of available choices.

The various links below illustrate some of the screens in Portfolio Manager when downloading transaction information from your broker. Click on a thumbnail to learn more.

	Download Financial Institutions In the first step of the downloading process, you need to enter your financial institution account information, and to select the date range for transaction activity.

	Download Financial Institutions -2 In the second step of the downloading process, you’ll be prompted with a form showing the transactions occurring within the date range selected that Portfolio Manager is able to recognize and allow you to automatically post to update activity.