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Curious how modern bank statement fetching works? Join our live webinar on Thursday, September 10 at 11 AM PST and see how you can automate statement collection, sign up to hold your spot.

Stop Chasing Bank Statements
Join Our Live Webinar

Curious how modern bank statement fetching works? Join our live webinar on Thursday, September 10 at 11 AM PST and see how you can automate statement collection, sign up to hold your spot.

Automate Bank Statement Fetching in Minutes

Stop wasting valuable time manually downloading client bank statements. LedgerDocs automates the entire process, saving you hours every month while making the process more efficient and secure. LedgerDocs is the trusted choice for bookkeepers and accountants looking for an efficient solution to fetch bank statements and automatically download bank transactions.

Bank-level encryption

Trusted by thousands of bookkeepers and accountants

Integrates with QuickBooks Online & Xero

Seamless and Secure Bank Feeds

Securely Access clients’ bank transactions without ever asking them to share their banking credentials with you. Simply by having your clients connect their bank accounts in LedgerDocs, you can watch the statements roll in every month without prompting.

Instant Bank Statement Fetching

Automatically retrieve statements from thousands of banks — no more logging into each portal.

Auto-Sync With QuickBooks & Freshbooks

OCR bank statements and post them directly where they need to go.

Eliminate Manual Entry

Save hours of manual work each month per client.

Secure & Reliable

Clients connect using their own accounts, protected with bank-level encryption.

The Process of Downloading Bank Statements

Clients connect their bank accounts

Link bank accounts directly in LedgerDocs without the need to disclose sensitive information with you or us.

Fetch statements and transactions

LedgerDocs retrieves monthly automatic bank statement download PDFs and monthly transactions, eliminating the need for manual collection!

Who Can Use Bank Statement Fetching

For Bookkeepers

Fetch monthly statements without chasing clients.

For Accountants

Reduce manual statement management and preparation time.

For Firms with Multiple Clients

Scale bank fetching across hundreds of client accounts.

Connect Your Bank Accounts Securely

Securely Access clients’ bank transactions without ever asking them to share their banking credentials with you. Simply by having your clients connect their bank accounts in LedgerDocs, you can watch the statements roll in every month without prompting.

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RBC
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Your Bank Wasn’t Listed?
Contact Us to Inquire If Your Institution is Compatible

You’ll be happy to note that LedgerDocs works with a wide range of major banks and financial institutions. To verify support of a specific financial institution, feel free to start a live chat, submit a message, or reach out to us at 855-317-0505.

Export Transactions or Fetch Historical Statements and Transactions

Export transactions in various formats like QuickBooks Online and CSV for seamless integration with your accounting software. If you’re missing a statement, generate custom PDFs from existing bank transactions or let LedgerDocs automate the process with its automatic bank statement downloader.

Speed up catch-up bookkeeping by fetching up to 24 months of historical transactions and 6-month bank statement downloads for connected and supported bank accounts.

Convert CSV to PDF with Ease

LedgerDocs makes it easy to convert PDF bank statements into CSV format. Simply upload a PDF, and LedgerDocs will automatically generate a structured CSV file, ready for import into QuickBooks Online or for reconciliation and reporting in Excel.

This feature seamlessly integrates with Automatic Bank Statement Fetching, allowing you to quickly convert fetched bank statements into CSV format—saving you time and streamlining your workflow.

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FAQ’s

Welcome to the LedgerDocs FAQs, your one-stop resource for all the information you need to make the most out of our Bank Statement Fetching feature.
Bank fetching refers to a core feature on LedgerDocs that allows you to automatically download bank statements from over 10,000 financial institutions in Canada and the US. Bank statement fetching is very popular for LedgerDocs customers and we are excited to be able to offer it on our platform as a core feature.
A user sets up their bank fetching by logging into their banking institution via a secure LedgerDocs login page. LedgerDocs will then auto download your bank statements every month and place them in a secure fetched statements folder in your LedgerDocs company. You can also choose to sync automatically with Dropbox.
Yes, LedgerDocs functions as a monthly automatic credit statement fetcher and supports monthly automatic credit statement fetching for credit cards, savings, and chequing accounts.

We offer a few different options to enable bank fetching on your account.

Option 1 – A standalone Fetch only plan that includes up to 3 fetches, and a pay-per-fetch system depending on the number of statements you need downloaded. The Fetch plan only includes the bank fetching feature and not other core features that automate your document collection. Please get in touch with us for a custom quote.

Bank Statement fetching can also be added to any LedgerDocs plan. Please get in touch with us to add to your plan.

If you’re new to LedgerDocs, create a free 14 day trial here to test out bank fetching.

One “fetch”is equal to one PDF Bank Statement Download for a particular account at a specified financial institution.

For instance, if you have a savings and checking account with Wells Fargo and one with US Bank, using bank statement fetching in this scenario would total 3 “fetches.” Only successful statement “fetches” are charged for.

Yes! We offer a standalone fetch only plan that includes up to 3 fetches, and credit system/pay-per-fetch usage depending on the number of connections. Book a call with us to set up a custom trial account.

Yes, our bank statement fetching feature allows you to automatically download statements and transactions to your LedgerDocs account. You can also save them to your local hard drive on your computer

Once you have successfully connected to your bank, the bank statement(s) PDF’s that you requested will automatically download to LedgerDocs every month, or you can simply fetch on demand. You can also choose the fetch date for your monthly statement per account.

It might take as long as two or three minutes, depending on your connection and how busy your bank is at the moment. As long as the spinning progress wheel continues to show, the statement is being fetched. It usually takes less time than 90 seconds to pull a statement.
Bookkeepers and accountants that want to reconcile their clients’ receipts and transaction documents against the statement record will benefit from using this feature. Business owners may also want an electronic pdf document stored on the cloud showing all of their monthly bank transactions.
Support for banking institutions is expanding quickly, with new banks being added regularly. If you’d like to check if your bank is supported, please contact our support team directly via email or live chat.

Yes. In the bank fetching tab you are able to select the day of the month that you want to pull a statement.

Please note that unless you discontinue the automated schedule feature, the statement(s) that you requested will continue to be pulled every month. If you exceed your Company plan’s allotment of pulls per month you will be billed an additional fee per statement as per your agreed upon pricing and terms of service. See LedgerDocs’ pricing plan for full information.

No. Only the master account owner that created the LedgerDocs account has access to different folders and companies. Your other clients won’t even see the names of other companies in your LedgerDocs account.

LedgerDocs will automatically create a PDF of the pulled statement. You will be able to zoom, rotate and label this PDF as you would for any other document in LedgerDocs.

You can also download the PDF for your own on-site records or even have it automatically sync with Dropbox.

Our advanced PDF features also give users the ability to combine, split, and share PDFs without the use of additional software like Adobe Acrobat.

The LedgerDocs mobile app does not currently support the bank fetching feature.
Yes, we support a wide range of account types for bank statement retrieval. Additionally, an even larger list of institutions is available for retrieving bank transactions. Contact us for the most up to date list of supported banks.
LedgerDocs can typically fetch bank statements up to the past year, but we may be able to go further depending on the financial institution. Contact us for more information.
Fees for retrieving historical bank statements can vary depending on the number of accounts you’d like to fetch. Contact us directly, and we’ll work with you to create a custom rate.
Yes, LedgerDocs allows you to schedule monthly automatic bank statement downloads and auto-fetch bank statements on a specific day. This eliminates the need to remember when to fetch your statements manually.

LedgerDocs takes security very seriously. Here’s how we protect your data:

• We don’t store credentials: Your sensitive login information is never saved on our platform.
• Read-only connections: LedgerDocs establishes read-only connections, ensuring that only authorized data is accessed without the ability to modify or perform transactions.
• Client-managed 2FA: Clients connect their accounts and complete the two-factor authentication (2FA) process themselves, so bookkeepers never need to collect or handle private information.

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Date & Time: September 26, 2024 at 11:00 am PST
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