Kenya Bank Statement Converter

ClearlyLedger converts Kenyan bank statement PDFs from KCB, Equity Bank, Co-operative Bank, NCBA, Absa and Stanbic into Excel or CSV. It handles KES formatting, M-Pesa and PayBill references, agent banking rows, loan and fee lines, corporate references and balance verification.

Last updated 2026-10-26

Kenya banks ClearlyLedger converts

ClearlyLedger ships dedicated statement profiles for 6 Kenya banks. Each profile expects the layout that bank actually prints, rather than treating every PDF as a generic table.

Bank Date format Currency Typical length
KCB Bank KenyaDD/MM/YYYYKSh KES4-35 pages
Equity Bank KenyaDD/MM/YYYYKSh KES5-45 pages
Co-operative Bank of KenyaDD/MM/YYYYKSh KES4-30 pages
NCBA Bank KenyaDD/MM/YYYYKSh KES4-35 pages
Absa Bank KenyaDD/MM/YYYYKSh KES4-30 pages
Stanbic Bank KenyaDD/MM/YYYYKSh KES4-40 pages

Statement conventions in Kenya

Kenya statements in our profile set use DD/MM/YYYY date ordering and are denominated in KSh KES. Check ambiguous transaction dates carefully: a DD/MM/YYYY statement read as US ordering produces plausible-looking but wrong dates for every day below the thirteenth of the month, which is why the Kenya profiles pin the order rather than inferring it per row.

Layout quirks these profiles handle

  • That 1896 origin was as a branch of the National Bank of India, later operated as Grindlays Bank, before the Kenyan government took majority ownership and renamed it Kenya Commercial Bank around independence
  • M-Pesa, PayBill and till-number references often add a second line of narration under the main description
  • KES amounts may include comma thousands separators and blank debit or credit cells depending on transaction direction
  • Opening and closing balance rows need to be validated but not exported as transaction rows themselves
  • Equitel, EazzyPay and mobile transfer descriptions can span several lines
  • Agent banking entries include location or agent references inside the narrative

Importing into Kenya accounting tools

Export to CSV and import into QuickBooks, Sage, Zoho Books or another bookkeeping system — the tools Kenya bookkeepers most often run. Amounts and dates are normalised on export so the column mapping in the import wizard resolves without hand-editing.

Conversions are processed in memory, are never used to train AI models, and the workflow is built to align with Kenya's Data Protection Act 2019 for Kenya account holders.

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