Turn a year of bank and card statements into one clean Excel file for tax time. Upload your PDF statements and BankXLSX pulls every transaction into date, description, and amount columns you can sort by category, total for Schedule C, and hand to your CPA. Start free, no credit card.
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To get your bank statements ready for taxes, upload each month of PDF statements to BankXLSX and it builds one Excel file with date, description, debit, credit, and balance columns. From there you sort by vendor, tag each line to a Schedule C category, and total your deductible expenses in minutes instead of scrolling PDFs. The same conversion exports to CSV, so you can hand a clean file to your accountant or import it into QuickBooks or TurboTax-ready bookkeeping. A year of statements takes a few minutes to convert.
At tax time you need totals by category, but the raw statements fight you the whole way. Here is what usually eats the hours.
A year of statements is twelve separate PDFs with no way to sum a vendor or a category across them, so you tally by hand.
If you ever used one account for both, deductible spending sits next to groceries, and sorting it in a PDF is painful.
Pasting a statement into Excel jams the date, description, and amount into one cell, so the numbers will not add up.
Software subscriptions, bank fees, and processing fees hide in a wall of transactions, and every one you miss is a deduction you lose.
Hand an accountant a stack of PDFs and they bill for the data entry you could have automated in minutes.
A miskeyed figure on a return is a real problem, and manual entry from a PDF is where those errors creep in.
Upload the PDFs and the converter reads every transaction into a structured spreadsheet, so you can sort, filter, and total by category instead of scrolling documents.
Download a real Excel workbook or CSV with one transaction per row and numbers that total, not pasted text.
With the data in columns, you can group by vendor or category and drop in a SUM to total each deductible bucket.
Upload all twelve months, and several accounts, and the converter stitches them into one continuous sheet.
Give your accountant a tidy Excel or CSV file instead of a folder of PDFs, so they spend time on your return, not data entry.
OCR pulls transactions from scanned statements and phone photos, so old paper statements work too.
256-bit encryption in transit and you can delete your uploaded files whenever you want.
No software to install and no credit card to start.
Drag all twelve months of statements, and any card statements, into the box above at once.
Tip: Business and personal accounts can go in together.
The AI reads every transaction into date, description, and amount columns you can sort.
Tip: A year converts in a few minutes.
Tag each line to a Schedule C category and total your deductions, then export for your CPA.
Tip: Export to CSV for QuickBooks or TurboTax bookkeeping.
From a solo freelancer filing a Schedule C to a bookkeeper prepping a dozen returns, the spreadsheet output fits the way US tax work actually happens.
Pull a year of spending into one sheet and total your Schedule C deductions.
Build expense totals by category for the business return without hand-tallying PDFs.
Convert client statements to clean data instead of billing hours for entry.
Close out the year and hand off categorized data ready for the return.
The output is a normal Excel workbook (.xlsx), one transaction per row, with date, description, debit, credit, and running balance columns. Because the amounts come through as real numbers, you can sort by vendor, filter to a single category, and drop in a SUM the moment the file opens. Add one column for the Schedule C category, fill it in as you scan the descriptions, and you have a running total for every deductible bucket. If your accounting lives in a program instead of a spreadsheet, the same conversion exports to CSV so it imports cleanly.
A bank statement shows what left the account and when, which is half of what the IRS wants. The other half is the business purpose. For most everyday expenses the statement line plus your category note is enough to support the deduction, but for larger or mixed-use costs you also want the receipt or invoice. Here are common Schedule C categories and how they tend to appear on a statement.
| Schedule C category | How it looks on a statement |
|---|---|
| Software and subscriptions (line 27a) | Recurring monthly charges from SaaS vendors |
| Merchant and processing fees (line 10 or 27a) | Small deductions from a payment processor payout |
| Advertising (line 8) | Charges from ad platforms and print or mail vendors |
| Contract labor (line 11) | Payments or transfers to contractors and freelancers |
| Meals (line 24b) | Restaurant and cafe charges, keep the receipt and note who you met |
| Bank fees (line 27a) | Monthly maintenance, wire, and overdraft fees |
| Office expense (line 18) | Supplies and small equipment from retailers |
Categories and line numbers here are a general guide, not tax advice, so confirm the treatment of any large or unusual item with your CPA. To speed up the tagging, let the tool categorize the transactions for you, then review and adjust. For a fuller breakdown of what goes where, see our list of Schedule C expense categories.
For small routine expenses, a statement line and a category note usually hold up. For bigger deductions, mixed personal and business charges, and meals or travel, the IRS can ask for the receipt or invoice that shows what you actually bought and why. The safe habit is to convert the statement for the totals and keep the backup documents for the large items. Our guide on whether you can use bank statements as receipts for taxes walks through where a statement is enough and where it is not.
Once the year is in a spreadsheet, the last step is wherever you file. Export to CSV and import into your bookkeeping, or hand the Excel file to your preparer. If your books run in QuickBooks, you can convert the statements straight to a QuickBooks file with a bank statement to QuickBooks converter and skip the spreadsheet entirely. For the step-by-step on preparing statement data specifically for filing, see how to convert bank statements for tax filing, and if you only need the general tool, the bank statement converter handles any format from one upload.
Upload your PDF statements to BankXLSX and it builds one Excel file with date, description, and amount columns. Sort by vendor, tag each line to a Schedule C category, and total your deductions. The same file exports to CSV for your accountant or bookkeeping software.
A bank statement is a record of what you paid and when, which supports income and expense figures on your return. For most routine expenses that is enough, but keep receipts for large or mixed-use items. Convert the statements to a spreadsheet so you can total each category cleanly.
For an annual return you generally want all twelve months of the tax year for every account you used for business. If you file quarterly estimates, you pull the statements for each quarter. Converting the full year into one sheet makes totaling by category straightforward.
Convert the statement to a spreadsheet, add a category column, and mark each line business or personal as you scan the descriptions. Then filter to the business rows and total by category. Going forward, a dedicated business account makes this far easier.
For small routine expenses, a statement line plus your category note usually supports the deduction. For larger costs, meals, travel, and mixed-use charges, the IRS can ask for the receipt showing what you bought and why, so keep those alongside the statement totals.
Yes, and most prefer it. A clean Excel or CSV with date, description, and amount in separate columns drops straight into their software, so they spend time on your return instead of retyping PDFs. That usually means a faster turnaround and a lower bill.
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