I'm in WA, so direct connect is unavailable -- the option of MSN Money sync is
a frustrating time-waster, at least that was my own experience. My previous
recommendation stands -- don't use MSN Money sync for your B of A account,
download the OFX file directly from B of A -- it always works, and works quite
well. You can of course continue the frustration of trying to use B of A with
MSN Money sync and post your narration of the experience here -- it won't
change anything though. Best of luck to you whatever you choose.

Art McClinton <art[at]nova.org> wrote:
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The issue is which Bank of America. Early in this post someone
indicated that they were using Bank Of America CA, This one does not use
a Direct connection and is using the CashEdge that does require the MSN
Money Sync. The ones using Bank Of America (All Except CA, WA, or ID)
using a direct connection. The standard issue if anyone has this is the
failure to contact Bank Of America to turn on the capability from their
end. (See the Bank Of America web site for information on these majority
of states).

Art

Long time Bank of America customer.

Ben wrote:

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Paul,

A closer approximation of the facts is: the Microsoft Money
application SUGGESTS you turn on MSN Money sync in order for it to use
its integrated third-party account aggregation so you get an account
setup that includes a form of automatic updates without having to use
BofA's own direct service. The latter does not require MSN Money sync,
may come at a price, and may not be available in all BofA service
areas.

An alternate solution that also don't require MSN Money sync is to
setup the account using a manually entered bank name and either
manually enter your transactions OR download them from the BofA
website.

Hope this helps,
JB


Paul Pedersen wrote:
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That really doesn't make sense -- not how B of A works for the rest of us. You
should contact Money support, the number can be found in the help file, just
search on 'support'.

"Paul Pedersen" <nospam[at]no.spam> wrote:
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On the contrary, it seems that BofA REQUIRES me to have MSN Money sync
turned on. If I don't do that, I cannot create the account.



<johnbuschman[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1155572183.125537.9720[at]75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
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My own experience with B of A is that might be one you want to get from the B
of A website directly. The OFX file you can get there works much better than
the MSN Money sync -- transactions match better, full details of the
transaction come through, etc -- with MSN Money sync, they don't and you wind
up checking the B of A site to confirm what the transactions are so you can
type the correct description in.

Overall, MSN Money sync is OK -- the concept is great -- but in actual use
you'll run into a lot of quirks. You've run into one with B of A -- another
example would be credit card accounts. One institution's transactions sync
fine, but finance charges don't come through -- yet other credit card accounts
do sync finance charges via MSN Money sync. Trying to find out why can be a
real time-waster. Once you work around the quirks, it's a great product.

"Paul Pedersen" <nospam[at]no.spam> wrote:
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Paul,

None of what you describe has even the slightest bit to do with BofA!

Regards,
JB

Paul Pedersen wrote:
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Apparently with BofA, you have to have MSN sync turned on. But if you do, it
can get hosed and won't let you open a new account.

I solved it by turning off MSN sync, deleting the account info from MSN (I
don't want it there anyway! Why should my financial info be out there on the
internet for any schmoe, or the government, to hack into??), then trying to
create the account again. Of course, when I did that, it turned sync back on
again.

What a pain! Tell me again, why is it that I'm doing business with BofA?



"John" <shikella[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uVB7PDquGHA.4472[at]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
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Same problem with us. Follow these instrucitons to delete any online
profiles you may have. We then setup a new hotmail account and everything
went great. Just make sure you unattach any B of A accounts from any
hotmail account.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;323964


"crocsdontsweat" <crocsdontsweat[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E47CEBA9-E6F8-4699-9352-100C10A592D2[at]microsoft.com...
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I am having the same issue with Bank of America (All Except CA, WA & ID)
Banking. Could it be that BoA is not yet ready for M2007!

"Frank" wrote:

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I'm using MS Money 2007 with the Bank of America (California) account and
when I am setting up my account the error occured that "Account setup is
temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." How can I solve this
problem?