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Starling · statement conversion

Convert Starling bank statements to Excel, Xero or QuickBooks

Starling statements name their narrative column “Counter party” and add a separate Type column (FPS IN, CARD, DD) beside a signed Amount. Rowford’s Starling template maps Counter party as the description and reads the signed amounts directly, verifying each against the running balance.

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How Rowford reads a Starling statement

The Starling template matches the columns as Starling prints them — a single signed amount column, with the sign verified against the running balance:

DateCounter partyTypeAmount (£)Balance

  • “Counter party” — vocabulary unique to Starling among UK banks — is the detection anchor and becomes the description column.
  • The Type column (FPS IN, CARD, DD) is positional metadata; v1 keeps the counter-party text as the exported description, which is what reconciliation in Xero/QBO matches on.
  • Signed amounts are cross-checked against balance movement, the same arithmetic guard used for Monzo.

What ends up in your export

Date (re-formatted per target: dd/mm/yyyy for Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and FreeAgent), the full description as printed, the signed amount, and — in the generic CSV and Excel formats — the running balance. Every row carries a confidence score in the preview, and the whole statement must reconcile (opening + transactions = closing) before you rely on it. Deterministic, template-based extraction: the same statement produces the same output, every time.

Synthetic sample of a Starling statement layout: columns Date, Counter party, Type, Amount (£), Balance
Synthetic sample in Starling's statement layout — fabricated data, no real statement. This is also the fixture our parser tests run against.

Starling questions

Which Starling statements work?

PDF statements from Starling personal and business accounts using the Counter party / Type / Amount layout. Scanned documents are refused.

Where does the Starling Type column go?

It is read but not exported in v1 — exports carry the counter-party narrative, which is what accounting software matches contacts on. If you need the type codes in exports, tell us; it is a small addition.

Business and personal Starling statements — both fine?

Yes. Both use the same column vocabulary, and both go through the same reconciliation check before export.