UPDATE: I get thousands of people coming to this post about PNC Bank Downloads everyday. I am sorry to inform you that PNC took away this functionality and it totally sucks! Therefore, I am on the search for a new bank. Preferably, one who does not like to waste our time when it comes to tax season. However, you can download your statements one month at a time when you follow the steps below. In the future I will post links to banks that are more user friendly when it comes to the user. So if you want to stay updated make a comment below and subscribe to the updates about this post and you will be notified when I do.
PNC Bank | Download CSV Files Beyond 90 Days | Beginners Guide
I bank at PNC Bank and recently I needed to download CSV files for the entire year of 2018. I decided to create this beginners guide for this process to help others. After speaking with a PNC representative on the phone he told me that this could not be done. I then blasted PNC on social media for not allowing its users to simply download CSV files into their desktop software like every other bank does. {PNC is not my only bank ;-)}.
OHHH THE NIGHTMARE OF PNC BANKING! GOOD LUCK TRYING TO DO YOUR TAXES WITH THESE GUYS PNC WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO DOWNLOAD TRANSACTIONS! HORRIBLE TIME WASTER. 1 minute turns into 1 month! @PNCBank_Help #BadBank #TimeWaster #time #money #tax #ripoff
โ Maximus (@A1WebsitePro) March 9, 2019
To make a long story short I was contacted via social media by PNC Help and they guided me through it. This took several hours to do and it is only a couple minute process. So I made the decision to help others if they fall into this dilemma with PNC bank and downloading CSV files.
Download CSV Files Past 90 Days PNC Bank
To download CSV files past 90 Days log into your PNC account. You want to navigate where it says “Online Statements”. You can get there by clicking on “My Account” then click “Activity” then you will see the link for “Online Statements”. This is where you want to be.
Now what you want to do after you are in online statement is click on “Activity Detail”.ย Select what type of activity you want to export. The choices are deposits or withdrawals. Select a date range then click on “Export”.
Save the CSV file to your computer somewhere then you can import it to your tax software or read it in a spreadsheet. As you can this this is a very quick and easy tutorial. I could not find it with a quick search so I thought it would be nice to have it up for someone else who was experiencing the same problem. Have a good day, please share and subscribe :-).
Update
Well now they only allow you to export one month at a time! Thanks PNC for making it more difficult for your users to file taxes!
NOTE: If you like the way they use to do it before, share this post with your PNC branch. Maybe if we all report it they will put it back the way it used to be when we could get a year at a time!
24 Comments
Thank you so much Kate!! kisses
Sure thing!:-)
Thank you
You’re welcome ๐
Thanks, I was able to export the three months that I was missing. I found that you cannot specify a specific time range though, just individual months “statement for period ending”. The “from” and “to” that you put a date in is for a dollar amount.
This doesnt work.
It will only download the last 30 days, not the full year. it will display the full year, but will not download them.
BW
They must of changed it, horrible service!
All good but this does not work for Virtual Wallet accounts.
Still works in 2021 with business checking. Thanks!
Excellent! Thanks for the comment!
PNC has removed the ability to view my activity, I can now only download PDFs.
I just did this process the other day and it worked. We do have a business account though, I do not know if that may be a difference?
This does not work for personal accounts…..any suggestions for that?
I understand that this does not work for personal accounts. Very disappointing I know. One thing that you may be able to do is reach out to them on Twitter like I did. They did respond pretty quickly.
This works, but only one month at a time. This is a basic, basic, basic and easy to address issue, and now is making me think of conspiracy issues, such as making something more valuable by causing the end user to spend more time to do something when in fact, there is an easier way of doing it.
Humans get sucked into thinking that if something takes a lot of time, no matter the reason, then it most be valuable, but in the end it’s just a con.
Sigh.
I know your right, its total BS and its crazy how hard they make it! Thanks for the comment!
It does not work for business accounts either. There is no date range selection. Only amount and check number. It just gives one frigging month at a time – total BS
Wow that sucks, they must of changed it. Total BS your right!
Didn’t work for me, but was able to use the date range from Account Activity to show a custom range, and then I highlighted the transactions and pasted them into Excel, and exported then to CSV.
Great, thanks for the update. ๐
Thanks SO much, Maximus. You’re my HERO!
It was incredibly thoughtful of you to take the time to share this valuable info.
Even though this is an old post, it works great.
I have both a PNC Bus Acct and a Virtual Wallet Acct. I haven’t yet tried this on the VW acct.
Maybe, with enough complaints, it’s been updated by now.
Be Well.
So glad it helped you, lol. I know it’s a pain to sometimes find out a way to do things. Glad you found me. ๐
Hi!
Also very helpful! I was able to export 90 days into excel for easily filtering. But beyond that, one month at a time, I can only export pdfs??? that is the least helpful thing. so frustrating.
Oh I know Caroline, I am so tired of these guys changing stuff. You should of saw in the export to export as CSV which is Comma Separated Values. This is the excel or database format. I hope they did not change that, geez!