Ask HN: How do you save your bank statements?

3 points by elchin 5 years ago | 7 comments

I cant seem to find a convenient tool to automatically save my bank statements from various banks and credit cards. What do you all use for this?

fiftyacorn 5 years ago |

I download the statements once a year and also export as a spreadsheet, and store on a laptop and cloud

I wish organisations had a annual batch download for this stuff to make it quicker. I keep thinking ill write a script - but then its quicker to just download one at a time

iop 5 years ago | |

Unfortunately some banks only have transaction history going back 6 months or so.

PDF statements are available for longer but they are rather worthless because they are hard to parse.

psyklic 5 years ago | |

It's not a bank, but Amazon lets you download very detailed purchase history as a CSV file (over any time period).

Spooky23 5 years ago |

Scanning paper copies is the easiest IMO.

rzzzwilson 5 years ago | |

If your bank insists on sending you paper find another bank.

Spooky23 5 years ago | | |

What I’m saying it that is easier to scan paper than to deal with scraping bank websites.