Clariman wrote:Thanks everyone, but I am already tracking my spending by entering everything in MS Money. The challenge is that all the small payments (that would have been non-trackable cash payments) are very time consuming to enter into MS Money, but I need to enter them separately if I am to properly reconcile my credit card and bank statements.
Others have suggested importing bank and card statements into MS Money. This is possible but that loses one of the main benefits of tracking it in the way I have done up until now. I record all our spending BEFORE receiving the statements, and then reconcile the statements against what I already know we've spent. That means I immediately spot any unrecorded or unusual transactions. By simply downloading and importing the statement, you miss that reconciliation step.
Just last week I spotted a transaction which I did not recognise. I queried it with Amex and they immediately refunded it.
On of the earlier posters asked who you are with. I suspect that the reason was that you don't have to wait for a statement with most financial institutions. Instead you can log in and look at / download your current position.
I bought some food at the local Supermarket using my MBNA credit card between 3 & 4pm today. I've just logged on (5pm) and apparently it cost me £17.32. I also downloaded my most recent transactions while I was there as a CSV file. A text editor like Notepad could limit the file to just the ones wanted, before importing into MS Money.
I normally wait until statements when dealing with my credit card, but clearly it IS possible to do what you wish with my credit card provider. Possibly it is also possible with AMEX. Given that it's possible to see recent transactions on their app, I would assume that you can probably download them from their website.