Are Discover it quarterly bonus categories preserved in the export?

Yes. The category column (Restaurants, Gas Stations, Wholesale Clubs, etc.) is kept in the Description field of each row, so filtering by category in the exported spreadsheet shows which purchases earned the 5% rotating cashback.

Does it handle Discover Cashback Debit statements?

Yes. Cashback Debit uses the checking-style single-table layout; the parser reads it like any other checking statement and reconciles against the printed running balance.

Will Discover it Miles PDFs import into QuickBooks?

Yes. The QBO exporter tags each row CREDIT or DEBIT and uses the cycle-close date — QuickBooks treats the import as a credit-card billing cycle, no manual category work.

What about Discover Online Savings interest for tax season?

Monthly interest credits appear as their own transaction row with 'Interest Earned' in Description. A year of statements gives you 12 rows to sum for a 1099-INT-ready total.

Convert your Discover statement to Excel

Cashback Debit, Online Savings, and Discover it credit-card PDFs. Drop a PDF and get back a verified XLSX, CSV, or QBO in seconds.

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How the Discover conversion works

1. Drop your Discover Bank PDF — digital or scanned, monthly statement or a combined multi-month export, up to 50 MB (or batch up to 25 files). Password-protected PDFs and image-only scans both work: scans go through vision OCR automatically.
2. Parse & reconcile — every transaction is extracted and the sum is checked against ending balance minus beginning balance within $0.01.
3. Download XLSX, CSV, or QBO — one click each, or batch up to 10 statements and download them as a single ZIP.

Inside a Discover statement: format details

Sections in the PDF

Account Summary · Payments and Credits · Purchases · Fees Charged · Interest Charged

Transaction date format

MM/DD/YY

Products we've parsed

Discover Cashback Debit, Discover Online Savings, Discover Money Market, Discover it Cash Back, Discover it Chrome / Student Chrome, Discover it Miles / Secured / Business

Discover it credit-card statements use the standard four-section US credit-card template (Payments, Purchases, Fees, Interest) with a category column that shows the rotating 5% quarterly bonus category alongside everyday purchases. We preserve the category in the exported Description field for anyone tracking rewards optimisation.

Cashback Debit and Online Savings statements from Discover Bank use a distinct checking-style layout with a single running-balance transaction table. Monthly interest postings on Online Savings land as their own transaction row, exported with 'Interest Earned' in Description.

Discover cycles close on a fixed day each month. The exported Statement Period reflects the cycle window, and QBO exports use cycle-close as the batch date — QuickBooks imports the full cycle as one batch rather than splitting across month-end.

Discover accounts and products we convert

We handle savings and credit-card PDFs from Discover Bank.

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Where Discover PDFs trip up manual conversion

Format-specific quirks that break naive PDF parsers — and how the reconciliation pipeline handles each one.

Cashback Bonus rows don't change the running balance

Discover prints the Cashback Bonus row as a credit in the Account Activity block, but it's offset against future statements rather than reducing the current cycle's balance. Naive parsers include the row in the cycle sum and the math fails by the cashback amount. The parser detects Cashback Bonus rows by the description signature and excludes them from the running-balance check while preserving them in the export — so reward tracking stays accurate without breaking reconciliation.

5% rotating category posts on cycle-close, not as it accrues

Discover it's 5% rotating category bonus accrues throughout the cycle but only posts as a single line on cycle-close, with a description like '5% Cashback Bonus through MM/DD'. If you're matching the bonus against category spend within the cycle, the bonus row references a window already closed. The export keeps the printed earning-period dates in metadata so 5%-category audits work against the correct prior cycle without manual cross-referencing.

Online Savings statements only generate on request

Discover Online Savings doesn't auto-generate monthly PDF statements unless you've opted in — instead the activity is shown as a continuous online ledger. If you batch-download a year and find missing months, it's because no statement was issued for that period. The parser handles ad-hoc statement windows (any date range) the same as monthly statements, so a custom-period PDF reconciles against its own beginning/ending balances without requiring calendar-month boundaries.

Questions we get most often

Are Discover it quarterly bonus categories preserved in the export?: Yes. The category column (Restaurants, Gas Stations, Wholesale Clubs, etc.) is kept in the Description field of each row, so filtering by category in the exported spreadsheet shows which purchases earned the 5% rotating cashback.
Does it handle Discover Cashback Debit statements?: Yes. Cashback Debit uses the checking-style single-table layout; the parser reads it like any other checking statement and reconciles against the printed running balance.
Will Discover it Miles PDFs import into QuickBooks?: Yes. The QBO exporter tags each row CREDIT or DEBIT and uses the cycle-close date — QuickBooks treats the import as a credit-card billing cycle, no manual category work.
What about Discover Online Savings interest for tax season?: Monthly interest credits appear as their own transaction row with 'Interest Earned' in Description. A year of statements gives you 12 rows to sum for a 1099-INT-ready total.

Guides and engineering notes for Discover

Engineering notes

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Engineering notes

Password-protected bank statement PDFs: how to convert them safely without uploading the password to a stranger

Most banks ship encrypted statement PDFs by default. The conversion is easy when you have the password and impossible when you don't, but the part that matters most is what happens to the password during the conversion itself.

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Where Discover conversions get used

Most Discover statements that come through us are part of one of these workflows. Each link below explains how the reconciliation guarantee maps to that practice.

Forensic accountants

Discovery packets, multi-year tracing

Divorce attorneys

Opposing-counsel financial disclosure

Bookkeepers

Catch-up & bank-feed gaps

Scanned PDFs

Vision OCR + reconciliation

PDF to QBO

QuickBooks-ready OFX export

For QuickBooks workflows

Verified imports, no duplicates