Convert Excel to QBO
Drop in an .xlsx workbook and get a .qbo file back, with a balance check that proves nothing was dropped.
No sign-up needed. Files never leave your browser.
- Dates come out as dates, not the five-digit numbers Excel stores them as underneath
- Nothing is uploaded. The workbook is opened in this browser tab and never stored
- No account and no card, with no limit on conversions
Plenty of banks export a spreadsheet rather than a CSV, and plenty of bookkeepers are sent one by a client who opened the CSV in Excel and saved it. Either way the file is an .xlsx, and accounting software will not read it.
The awkward part of a spreadsheet is that Excel has no date type. A date is a number with a formatting rule attached, and the rule lives elsewhere in the file. That is why a spreadsheet opened by the wrong tool shows a column of numbers like 46027 where the dates should be. The workbook is read here properly, formats and all, so a date arrives as a date.
The workbook is opened in your browser. It is decompressed and read in the tab, without a round trip to any server, and no spreadsheet library is downloaded to do it.
New to the format? Read what a QBO file is. It covers what is inside one, and what it cannot tell you.
A converter that tells you when it missed something.
Most tools hand you a file and let you find out in your ledger. Every conversion here is reconciled against the closing figure first. That figure is read from your statement’s balance column, or typed in from the page when there isn’t one.
When the totals don’t meet you get the exact size of the gap, every row that did read, and the converted file anyway.
Sample balance check
A transaction may be missing. Review the rows below, or re-upload including all pages.
A sample result. This is the same component the converter uses.
Client statements never leave the tab
Conversion runs in your browser, in JavaScript on this page.
Closing the tab discards the file and everything read out of it. There is nothing to delete later and nothing to breach.
There is no upload step to decline, because there is no upload. Open your browser's network tab and convert. You will see no request carrying your data.
Once this page has loaded, conversion runs with no connection at all. Useful on a client site with locked-down wifi. It also proves the file stays put.
Questions people actually ask
Which sheet does it read?
The first one in the workbook. If your transactions are on a later sheet, move them to the front or export that sheet on its own. Every cell of that sheet is read, including rows above the header, which are skipped in the usual way.
My dates arrived as numbers in another converter. Why?
Because a date in a spreadsheet is stored as a count of days since the end of 1899, with a format applied that tells the software to render it as a date. A converter that reads only cell values, and not the formats they carry, has no way to tell a date from any other number and hands you the count instead.
Does it handle .xls as well as .xlsx?
Only .xlsx, the format Excel has written by default since 2007. The older .xls is an entirely different binary format. If you have one, open it and save it again as .xlsx first.
Does my statement get uploaded anywhere?
No. The conversion runs inside your browser using JavaScript on this page. The file is read from your disk into memory, converted, and offered back as a download. Nothing is sent to a server, so there is nothing for us to store, log or delete. You can confirm this by opening your browser's network tab while you convert.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no email capture and no usage limit on CSV conversion.
How do I know every transaction came through?
Every conversion shows a balance check above the results. If your file has a running balance column, the opening and closing balances are read from it. Otherwise you type them in from your statement. The check adds up every converted transaction, compares the total to the closing balance, and tells you the exact size of any difference.
My dates came out wrong. What happened?
A date like 05/01/2026 is ambiguous: 5 January in the UK and most of Europe, 1 May in the US. Turn on the day-first option and the file is re-read immediately. If your statement contains a date that can only be day-first, such as 19/02, the converter points this out before you download.
Some rows were skipped. Is that a problem?
Usually not. Totals rows, page footers, repeated column headings and blank lines carry no transaction date, so they are left out and counted. The skipped count is shown with the results so you can check it against what you expected.
Try it on the statement that’s annoying you right now.
No account, no card, no limit. If the layout isn’t recognised you will know immediately, rather than after a support ticket.