Data Import

Notification Import Tunes

Notification import tunes have the main role in the notifications import. Once financial institution changes notification structure the import tunes should be changed too. For that case you can download update or modify tunes by yourself, see chapter Advanced Import SMS and Push Notifications Setting.

Select menu item Actions ‣ Import ‣ SMS and Push tunes to get updates.

The app will show available update, also it is possible to download new ones here.

But may be you will see nothing. Check the import tunes exchange is on at settings.

SMS and Push Notifications

The app Budget Blitz for Android imports SMS and push notifications by default. But it is possible to import certain notification by hands. To do that

1. Open the import dialog.

2. Select a required account. The account should have the identity and the import tune.

3. Select required notifications.

4. Press Import button.

5. Check transactions list for the result.

6. Use event log to view issues.

CSV files

During CSV file import the app can create new accounts, categories, payers or payees, projects, and persons. It depends on your choice.

The column separator can be one of “;”, “,”, “|”, “/”, “". File must be UTF-8 encoded.

The first row of the file must have column names, case does not matter. Since column names are placed at another row they are valid for next rows.

CSV file format

Names	Mandatory	Comment
id	No	Transaction identity, the app will search existed transaction if not empty.
account,incomeAccountName, Income account	Yes	Name, number, or identity of the account
date	No	Date of the transaction, supported formats: “dd’d’MM’d’yyyy” (for example, 01d01d2017), “yyyy’d’MM’d’dd” (for example, 2017d01d01), “yyyyMMddHHmmss”, “yyyyMMddHHmm”, “yyyyMMdd”, “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss”, “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm”, “yyyy-MM-dd”, “dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss”, “dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm”, “dd-MM-yyyy”, “dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss”, “dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm”, “dd.MM.yyyy”
time	No	Time of the transaction, supported formats: “HH:mm:ss”, “HH:mm”, “HHmmss”, “HHmm”
amount,income, Income amount	Yes	Transaction amount, can have a currency and digits delimiters, fixed point should be point or comma, can be an amount in the transaction currency or an amount in the account currency
original amount	No	Amount in the currency of the transaction, if specified, the rate of the transaction is calculated automatically
rate, exchange rate	No	Transaction rate
currency,incomeCurrencyShorttitle	No	Transaction currency or account currency, if not specified, is used in the currency of the account
original currency	No	Transaction currency
payer, payee, contractor	No	Name of the contractor, the app will analyze current row keywords when empty
category, categoryName	No	Name of the category, the app will analyze current row keywords when empty
project	No	Name of the project, the app will analyze current row keywords when empty
person, unit	No	Name of the person, the app will analyze current row keywords when empty
location, place	No	Name of the location, the app will analyze current row keywords when empty
notes, note	No	Note
planned, plan	No	Actual (0) or planned (1), default value is 0
detail, split	No	Transaction (0) or detail of transaction (1). default value is 0
X	X	Second transaction from the single line
outcomeAccountName, Expense account	Yes	Account
outcome, Expense amoun	Yes	Amount
outcomeCurrencyShorttitle	No	Currency

The row is canceled when mandatory columns are empty.

If the row contains not all mandatory columns, but amount column is not empty, then app creates split transaction. This is like column detail contains value 1.

To start the import

1. Open the import dialog.

2. Select a file.

3. Press Next and select required rows.

4. Press Import button.

5. Check transactions list for the result.

6. Use event log to view issues.

OFX files

Budget Blitz for Android supports import of OFX files meet specification starting from 2.1.1.

1. Open the import dialog.

2. Select a file.

3. Press Next and select required rows.

4. Press Import button.

5. Check transactions list for the result.

6. Use event log to view issues.

Electronic receipts

Budget Blitz for Android supports electronic receipts import. Now available import for Russia and Ukraine. You can request more formats by email.

To import from other apps:

1. Open specific app.

2. Select receipt, link or text data and push Share / Send / Transmit button or some thing like that.

3. Select Budget Blitz for Android as receiver.

4. Follow instructions on a screen.

To import from the clipboard:

1. Open import dialog.

2. Paste data from the clipboard.

3. Follow instructions on a screen.

Use events log to identify errors.