Target: Have Not Been Able to Connect for Months

@acjay we have considered additional aggregators, of course, including Plaid BUT it’s not just not something we can prioritize right now. It’s a big undertaking and we’re a very small team so prioritization is always a challenge. :woman_juggling:

@stuart, you could certainly reach out to Target (not sure exactly who you would reach out to as they’re a GIANT company doing more than just offering financial services :woman_shrugging:) as this has worked for other institutions (e.g. Ally Bank).

@RachelB, thanks for sharing the CSV for Target exports. @randy has built a rough CSV mapping solution. It’s a bound script and a personal project form him as a community builder. Since it’s a bound script, it does require a few more manual initial installation/setup steps, but once you get through those it will give you an easy and fast way to import Target (and really any other institution) Transactions with regularity.

We didn’t add it to Labs because 1) the permission scopes are too broad for some to use it - thinking about you @nvorsanger ! ) and 2) our roadmap with “Labs” is shifting a bit - more details to come soon - so didn’t want to add more there.

He’s still making some tweaks based on feedback I’ve shared after testing it out, and I think he’s going to record a video walkthrough, but I tested it and it works!

I do know that for Target in particular the amounts are reversed in the export from our amount schema due to it being a credit card and the whole credit/debit concept… so you’d need to use the -Amount option documented in the special cases on GitHub.

We do expect Target to work again one day, we just don’t know when it will be and at this point it’s been disconnected long enough for them to not fill in the gap so you shouldn’t worry about duplicates with this CSV import workflow if you choose to experiment.