Kuda can email your own statement as Excel, so if it is yours and you can still request it, choose Excel in the app. This is for everyone else: the PDF a client, tenant or applicant sent you, or a signed statement, turned into a table you can check.
Drop your Kuda statement here
The PDF, a scan or a photo of a printed one. Locked files work. No account needed to start.
A signed statement or one sent to you by someone else usually arrives as a PDF. That is where this comes in: the same table you would get from Excel, plus a check that every balance follows from the row before.
Opening balance, plus money in, minus money out, must equal each row's balance. Anything that does not add up is highlighted, never hidden.
Landlords, lenders and accountants get PDFs. A row that does not add up from the one before stands out at once.
Total income for a period, find every transfer to one name, or bring it into Books to categorise each line.
The file is deleted as soon as it has been read. Only the table is kept: a day on the free plan, a month on paid plans.
If it is your account, yes: Kuda offers Excel in the app. Use this when you only have the PDF.
Yes. The transactions are read into the table. On a scanned copy, a stamp over a figure can blur it; the balance check shows any row that came out wrong.
A statement only holds what had settled when Kuda made it. Pending transactions can be missing; request a fresh one later.
Yes, for 10 pages a month, downloaded as CSV, which opens in Excel and Google Sheets. Paid plans add Excel files and hundreds or thousands of pages.
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