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Support EML transaction attachements
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The attachment feature for bank account transactions is great for scanned images of receipts etc, but quite often I receive receipts by email (in plain text, not attached to an email). Obviously I could print these to a PDF and then upload, but that seems unnecessarily complicated. If you could support the EML file type for attachments, then we could just drag the messages straight out of the mail client (obviously depends on the client) and upload that.
The attachment feature for bank account transactions is great for scanned images of receipts etc, but quite often I receive receipts by email (in plain text, not attached to an email). Obviously I could print these to a PDF and then upload, but that seems unnecessarily complicated. If you could support the EML file type for attachments, then we could just drag the messages straight out of the mail client (obviously depends on the client) and upload that.
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Hi Jack
We plan to support a wider variety of formats in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, though, the PDF route is probably the best workaround.
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I'm currently developing a third party software product for FreeAgent and I think your idea of supporting EML attachments rocks.
I'll add EML support to the development task list :)
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We plan to support a wider variety of formats in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, though, the PDF route is probably the best workaround.
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And it will be interesting to see who gets to the EML attachment support first :)
Either way, you can work around by saving (or printing) to a PDF :)
Olly -> I'll be testing the API thoroughly hopefully later this week / early next week. I'll be in touch. -
Thanks Mike. The tricky bit is generating a thumbnail of the EML file. We may well end up using a generic thumnail for non-image-file attachments.
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What I was planning to do was create a PDF of the email and use that as the thumbnail - and attempt to pre-populate some of the order information fields (keyword searching the email) - so that the user can simply drag the EML file from their email application (such as Outlook) directly onto the expense entry or create a new expense item automatically.
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