PDF bank statement converter for South African bookkeepers

Statements from South African banks

Clients bank with FNB, Standard Bank, Absa, Nedbank and Capitec, and with Investec, Discovery Bank, TymeBank and others. Statements print dates in several styles, day first, year first or with the month name, and the converter reads each date as printed. You choose the format of the dates in the exported file.

There’s no list of supported banks to wait for: the converter reads each statement’s layout instead of relying on a template per bank. It’s designed for English-language PDF statements. Results vary by layout, so try one of your client’s statements with the free pages before you rely on it.

Xero in South Africa

Xero only reads PDF bank statements for organisations in the US and Canada. Everywhere else, a PDF has to become a CSV or OFX file before Xero will import it. Export the Xero statement CSV, or OFX with the branch code and account number, and import it with Manage account › Import a statement.

Sage Accounting and QuickBooks Online

Sage Accounting lists OFX among the bank statement files it imports, so OFX is usually the easiest route; the general CSV works if you’d rather map columns. For QuickBooks Online, export the 3-column CSV with one signed amount, or the 4-column layout, and check the column matching before you accept the upload.

Client data

Files and results are deleted 24 hours after upload, or straight away if you delete them. Before uploading client statements, read the privacy notice: it names every company that processes statement data and where.