Wells Fargo Bank Statement Converter for PDF Statements to OFX and CSV

Upload the Wells Fargo statements you saved as PDFs, or scans of the paper ones, and get every deposit, check and withdrawal back as OFX for your ledger or as CSV and Excel for review. You see the rows before you pay for anything.

Personal and Wells Fargo business accounts
Check numbers kept for clearing
Paper statements scanned or photographed
15-page demo first

PDF, JPG, PNG, BMP, HEIC, TIFF

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Why Wells Fargo customers still convert PDF statements

Wells Fargo is one of the big US banks that kept its Quicken connection and its own download files, so for this month's activity you rarely need a converter. The trouble starts with anything older. The download screen covers recent activity, while the statement archive holds the full record, and that archive is PDF only.

That is the moment people come here: a bookkeeper rebuilding a client's prior year in Xero or QuickBooks Online, a household moving five years of history into Moneydance or GnuCash, or a CPA who received a shoebox of printed statements. In each case the statement is the only source, and retyping it is the expensive alternative.

How long Wells Fargo keeps statements online

As published on the Wells Fargo Online Documents page.

Account type Statements online
Checking, savings and other deposit accountsUp to 7 years
Home mortgage, trust and managed investmentUp to 7 years
Credit cards, home equity lines, personal loansUp to 2 years
Auto loansUp to 12 months

Save card statements before they age out. After two years the copy on your own disk may be the only one you can convert.

What each Wells Fargo transaction becomes in the OFX file

A Wells Fargo statement prints one line per posting with a date, a description and an amount in either the deposits or the withdrawals column, and the daily balance beside it. Here is where each piece goes.

On the Wells Fargo statement OFX tag Notes
Posting dateDTPOSTEDWritten as YYYYMMDD
Deposits or Withdrawals columnTRNAMT and TRNTYPEOne signed amount; money out is negative and typed DEBIT, money in CREDIT
Check numberCHECKNUM, TRNTYPE CHECKLets the register clear the check by number
Transaction descriptionNAME and MEMONAME holds the first 32 characters, the OFX limit; MEMO keeps the full text
Nothing printedFITIDGenerated the same way on every export, so re-imports are spotted as duplicates
Ending balanceLEDGERBALTaken from the statement; omitted when none is printed rather than guessed

Quicken is the exception. Its Web Connect import accepts only files signed by the bank, so for Quicken use the CSV export and the Quicken bank statement converter column map. Everything that reads plain OFX, from Xero to Microsoft Money, takes the OFX directly.

How to convert a Wells Fargo statement to OFX

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Save the statements

Sign on to Wells Fargo Online, open Statements and documents, choose the account, and save each month as a PDF. Business customers do the same in Wells Fargo Business Online.

2

Upload and review

Drop the PDFs here. Scroll the extracted table and compare total deposits and withdrawals with the summary box Wells Fargo prints on the first page.

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Pick the format

OFX for Xero, NetSuite, Moneydance, GnuCash and Money; CSV for Quicken and QuickBooks Online; Excel when the rows are going into workpapers or a lender package.

Converting a client's whole year at once? The bulk bank statement converter on the Plus plan takes up to 50 files per run, and statements longer than 25 pages, which business accounts with heavy card settlement often are, need Plus as well.

Wells Fargo statement conversion pricing

Demo

15 pages, 5 per file, OFX and CSV with a watermark. Enough to run one real Wells Fargo statement and check the output in your own software.

Starter

$49 a month, or $294 billed yearly. 3,000 pages a month and up to 25 pages per statement, which covers several hundred personal statements a month.

Plus

$149 a month, or $894 billed yearly. 12,000 pages, no page cap per statement, 50-file bulk upload, custom templates and API access for firms.

Each plan is for one user. Compare the tiers in full on the pricing page.

Wells Fargo bank statement converter FAQ

How far back can I get Wells Fargo statements online?

Wells Fargo lists up to seven years for checking, savings and other deposit accounts, two years for credit cards, home equity lines and personal loans, and 12 months for auto loans. Older statements have to be requested from the bank or scanned from paper.

Can I convert a Wells Fargo PDF statement to Excel?

Yes. Every conversion exports Excel and CSV alongside OFX, with date, description, signed amount and check number in separate columns. Pick whichever file your next step needs; there is no extra charge per format.

Why convert when Wells Fargo already supports Quicken?

The bank's downloads only reach recent activity. If you need last year, a closed account's history, or months a client never downloaded, the PDF statement is the only record left, and that is what this converter reads.

Does it handle Wells Fargo business statements?

Yes. Business checking statements with many deposits and card settlements convert the same way. Statements over 25 pages need the Plus plan, which has no per-statement page limit.

Is my Wells Fargo login needed?

No. You save the PDFs yourself and upload them. Nothing signs in to Wells Fargo for you, the files stay in your account until you delete them, and they are never used for model training.