Your Microsoft Money data, without Money
Microsoft stopped selling Money in 2009 and its last edition, Money Plus Sunset, only runs on
Windows. Years of accounts, payments, categories and investments sit in a single .mny file that
nothing else opens. This page reads that file directly, with no Money installed, and gives you
everything in it in formats spreadsheets and today's finance programs understand.
| You upload | You get |
|---|---|
| A .mny file from Money 98 to Money Plus Sunset | An Excel workbook: an Accounts sheet with every balance, one sheet per account with a running balance, plus categories, payees, securities, holdings and investment transactions |
| An .mbf backup made by Money | QIF files for Quicken, GnuCash and Moneydance: one file with every account, and one per account |
| The password, if your file has one | OFX statements for bank, cash and credit card accounts |
| CSV files with the same tables, and one register per account |
Before you download, a preview lists your accounts with their balances and number of transactions, and shows the first transactions of the busiest account.
Balances you can trust
Money keeps the balance of each account inside the file. After reading your transactions, the tool works out every balance itself and compares it with the one Money saved: the results say, for example, "12 of 12 match", and the Accounts sheet marks each account. If an account does not match, you are told which one and what Money had, instead of finding out later.
Supported files
.mnyfiles from Money 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and Money Plus (Essentials, Deluxe, Premium, Home & Business, Sunset), including UK, Japanese and other editions and the business editions with invoices.- Password-protected files: type the password you use in Money. Capital and small letters do not matter to Money, and they do not matter here.
.mbfbackups made with Money's Back Up command. Compressed backups that cannot be unpacked here are reported with simple instructions to unpack them first.
What is kept, and what is not
- Kept: accounts with their type, currency, opening balance and closed flag; every posted transaction with date, number, payee, category, memo and cleared, reconciled or void status; split transactions line by line; transfers, naming the other account; categories with their hierarchy, income or expense type and tax flag; payees; loans and assets.
- Investments: buys, sells, dividends, interest, reinvestments, added and removed shares and stock options with quantity, price, commission and total; holdings per account worked out from the transactions, valued at the last price in the file; the list of securities with symbols.
- Not exported: budgets, scheduled bills, reports, price history (only the last price), online banking settings and attached documents. Scheduled payments that were never entered stay out of the registers, as in Money.
- Currencies: amounts stay in each account's own currency; nothing is converted.
Moving to another program
Use the QIF file with all accounts for Quicken, GnuCash or Moneydance: it carries the accounts, categories, splits and transfers in one import, so both sides of a transfer can be matched up. Money keeps an investment account's cash in a separate "(Cash)" account; the QIF keeps that layout, with each trade naming the cash account its money came from or went to. The OFX files suit programs that import bank statements; OFX has no categories or splits, only totals. The Excel and CSV files are the easiest way to keep a readable archive of your history.
QIF dates follow the order of your Money edition (month/day/year for US editions, day/month/year for others); change it under "Date order in QIF files" if your program reads them the other way.
Privacy
Your file and its password are used only to produce your downloads. The password is removed from the job before the file is read and is not kept, and the results are deleted after 30 minutes.