Import Credit Suisse bank statements into bexio

importly still reads Credit Suisse statements – useful for legacy data from the time before the takeover by UBS. Simply drag the file into the entries table.

Which files importly reads from Credit Suisse

German and French column headers are both recognized.

Step 1: Download the statement from Credit Suisse

1. Log in to Credit Suisse E-Banking.
2. Open the account whose transactions you want to post.
3. Choose the export function for the account transactions and CSV as the format.
4. Set the desired period and download the file.

If the accounts are now held at UBS, export there and use the UBS article. This article applies to archived Credit Suisse files.

Step 2: Import the file into importly

1. Open the entries table in importly.
2. Drag the file anywhere onto the page. The import opens automatically.
3. importly shows you the detected format – for a Credit Suisse statement, Credit Suisse is at the top. If something doesn’t match, pick a different format in the Detected format field or create a new template via Create / edit template.
4. Select your bank account from the chart of accounts, for example 1020.
5. Check the preview and click Import.

If your table already contains rows, importly asks whether the new entries should be appended or the existing ones replaced.

What importly does with each column

The sign is resolved into debit and credit: when money comes in, your bank account is in Debit; when money goes out, in Credit. importly leaves the contra account empty – you set it in the table or through your rules.

The statement lists incoming and outgoing payments in two separate columns. importly merges them into a single amount with a debit-credit assignment.

Adjusting document number and description

The two pattern fields in the import window let you decide what ends up in the description and document number. When you click into the field, importly suggests the available values as placeholders. importly remembers your setting for your next Credit Suisse import.

If something doesn’t work

importly doesn’t recognize the format Check that you downloaded the CSV file and not the PDF. importly cannot read PDF statements. If the file is correct and still nothing is recognized, you can send it to us directly from the import window – we’ll add the format.

Umlauts are displayed incorrectly Don’t open the file in Excel and don’t re-save it – import it exactly as you downloaded it. Credit Suisse delivers the file in an older character encoding that importly reads correctly – Excel often rewrites it when saving.

Rows are missing The export is limited to the selected period. An import can contain at most 5,000 rows.

Amounts end up on the wrong side This happens when the wrong bank account was selected. The debit-credit decision depends solely on the sign in the statement and the selected bank account.