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Convert Bankwest statements to Excel

Drop in a Bankwest PDF and download a clean Excel file in seconds. Built for Australian bookkeepers and accountants.

About Bankwest statements

Bankwest is a Western Australia-based bank with around 1.1 million customers, wholly owned by Commonwealth Bank but operating with its own distinct brand, products, and statement formats. The Bankwest Online platform exports PDF statements for the Bankwest Easy Transaction Account, Hero Saver, and the popular Bankwest Business range. Despite the CBA ownership, Bankwest statements use a different layout — Transaction Date, Posting Date, Description, Amount (single signed column), and Balance — which trips up converters built only for big-four formats. The dual-date column (transaction date vs posting date) is a useful audit feature but requires explicit handling. Bankwest descriptions tend to be cleaner and more readable than the CBA equivalents, often including full merchant trading names rather than abbreviated codes. WA-based bookkeepers and accountants serving the mining services, agriculture, and small business sectors heavily reliant on Bankwest will recognise the monthly grind of converting these statements for client reporting. Our converter handles Bankwest's dual-date format correctly, splits the single Amount column into separate Debit and Credit columns where required by your accounting software, preserves the cleaner descriptions for accurate Xero rule-matching, and exports files ready for immediate import.

Catching up on Bankwest statements?

A backlog of Bankwest PDFs — a new client who's behind, or the months before a bank feed starts — is the job Ledger Pilot is built for.

• Months or years of statements at once

  Upload up to 50 PDFs in one batch on the Business plan and get a separate result for each statement, each with its own reconciliation check.

• Combined PDFs split for you

  When a file holds several statements, we can split it where each one prints its own statement period and convert them separately. If the boundaries aren't clear, we tell you rather than guess.

• Scanned statements

  If our standard parser can't verify a statement — a scan, or a layout we don't recognise yet — it can be read with AI-assisted extraction (PDFs up to 30 pages). We only use that result if it adds up, and we tell you when it was used.

• Checked to the cent

  Every statement is checked from its opening balance to its closing balance. If the numbers don't add up — a missing page, say — you see it before anything reaches your ledger.

Bigger backlog than your monthly pages? One-off catch-up packs add 2,000 or 5,000 page credits without changing your plan. Step-by-step help is in our guides, and how statement data is handled is on our Security page.

Frequently asked questions

How do I download a PDF statement from Bankwest?

Sign in to Bankwest Online, select the account, click "Statements", choose the period, and download as PDF. Statements are available for the past seven years.

Why does my Bankwest statement have two date columns?

Bankwest shows both the Transaction Date (when the transaction occurred) and the Posting Date (when it cleared). Our converter preserves both, letting your accounting software use whichever it prefers.

How is the single Amount column handled for Xero import?

Xero accepts a signed amount column natively. For MYOB and QuickBooks, our converter automatically splits positive and negative amounts into separate Debit and Credit columns.

Does this work for WA-based Bankwest business accounts?

Yes. Bankwest Business Transaction and the broader business product range all use the same PDF format and are fully supported.

Can I convert multiple Bankwest statements at once?

Yes — batch upload is available on the Business plan. Upload up to 50 Bankwest PDFs in one go (15 MB each, one bank per batch) and get a separate converted file for each statement, with a reconciliation check per file.

Is there a file size limit for Bankwest statements?

Yes. You can upload Bankwest PDF statements up to 15 MB. Almost all Bankwest statements — even multi-page or scanned ones — fall comfortably within this limit.