Convert an Ally statement PDF to Excel

How to convert an Ally Bank statement PDF to Excel

1. Download the PDF: in the Ally app, select Menu, then Statements and Tax Forms, then Bank; on the website, Ally keeps your documents under Profiles and Settings → Documents. Open the statement month and save the PDF. Use the downloaded PDF if you can: it reads exactly, while a scan of a printout is read with OCR and a phone photo needs saving as a PDF first.
2. Upload it above. Utilly reads each account's Activity table, takes the amount from whichever of Credits or Debits isn't zero, and checks Beginning Balance + credits − debits = Ending Balance for each account. The preview shows Balanced ✓, or exactly how far off it is, before you pay anything.
3. Download the CSV and open it in Excel. Dates and amounts come in as real dates and numbers.
4. Save as .xlsx (File → Save As → Excel Workbook) if you want to keep formulas or formatting.

What we read on an Ally statement

An Ally statement is a Combined Customer Statement: page 1 lists every account (Account Name, Account Number, Beginning Balance, Ending Balance), then each account gets its own pages: the product name and "Summary For", the account number, a Summary box, and an Activity table with Date, Description, Credits, Debits and Balance.

What this is based on: test statements built in Ally's layout above, with made-up names and transactions (a combined statement with an interest checking account, card purchases, ATM withdrawals with a fee note, transfers to and from savings, an ATM fee reimbursement and interest, running onto a second page, then a savings account; plus a savings statement from December into January), and one public Ally Bank statement (Money Market Savings) posted as an example file: all 23 of its rows were read and it balanced to the cent. We don't link to it because it contains a person's details. We haven't run every Ally statement style through it: Spending Account (checking) statements from a real customer, statements with CDs or several savings buckets, IRA statements and Ally credit card statements haven't been tested. The balance check tells you straight away whether yours read correctly.

What the Excel file looks like

Date,Description,Amount,Balance
2026-09-02,Direct Deposit SAMPLE PAYROLL PAYROLL,2150.00,3434.50
2026-09-03,"Check Card Purchase SAMPLE GROCERY #12 COLUMBUS, OH",-84.17,3350.33
2026-09-05,"ATM Withdrawal EXAMPLE CREDIT UNION 100 EXAMPLE ST COLUMBUS, OH",-203.00,3147.33
2026-09-08,Requested transfer to Online Savings XXXXXX8812,-500.00,2647.33
2026-09-30,ATM Fee Reimbursement,8.00,4780.04
2026-09-30,Interest Paid,0.21,4780.25

Rows keep the statement's order, which for Ally is date order. A transfer between two of your Ally accounts appears in both accounts' files (out of one, into the other), so if you combine them in one sheet, keep that in mind when you total. Want money in and money out in two columns? Use =MAX(C2,0) and =MAX(-C2,0).

How far back Ally statements go

Sources: Ally: Account Information help (Transactions History download icon, CSV or QFX; up to 18 months of account activity; one monthly statement for all accounts, including CDs; statement date based on the day you opened the account; closed accounts: 60 days, then statements and tax forms for the last 7 years), Ally: Tax Documents help (Profiles and Settings → Documents; in the app, Menu → Statements and Tax Forms). Checked Oct 29, 2026.

QuickBooks and Quicken files for Ally

Ally's own download is a CSV or a Quicken (QFX) file. If it covers the dates you need, use it. For months older than that, for statements a client sent you as PDFs, or when you want every row tied to the statement's Ending Balance, start from the PDF. The same Utilly conversion that gives you Excel also includes:

One credit covers every format of that statement, and every account on it. If Ally's download or a bank feed already brought in some of the same dates, start the PDF months where that stopped so nothing comes in twice.

Common problems

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