A ProperSoft Alternative
PDF to QBO in the Browser, No Subscription Needed
ProperSoft's ProperConvert is a capable desktop converter for Windows and Mac, sold as a subscription with unlimited pages. FlowParse does the PDF side of the same job in the browser: statements to QBO, QFX, OFX, Excel and CSV, each one checked against its own balances, with 10 free pages a month and page packs that never expire.
High-volume users who want unlimited conversions on their own computer, or who convert QIF, OFX and CSV files between formats.
Anyone who converts PDFs occasionally or seasonally, works in the browser, or merges a year of statements into one workbook.
Why Businesses Look for ProperSoft Alternatives
No subscription for occasional use
ProperConvert is $19.99 a month or $179.99 a year; occasional users want to pay only when they convert.
No install
People want to convert from any browser, including on machines where they cannot install software.
Fewer settings
No Account ID, account type or INTU.BID to set before each conversion.
Start free on real files
ProperConvert's trial saves only 10 transactions per file; FlowParse's free pages give the whole statement.
Consolidate a year
Smart Merge puts many statements into one workbook and checks the balance chain between them.
Every format from one upload
QBO, QFX, OFX, Excel, CSV and accounting-program CSVs from the same conversion.
Quick Comparison — ProperSoft vs FlowParse
A feature-by-feature look at ProperSoft and FlowParse.
| Feature | ProperSoft | FlowParse |
|---|---|---|
| PDF statement → .QBO | Yes | Yes |
| .QFX / .OFX export | Yes | Yes |
| IIF, QBJ and QIF export | Yes | No |
| Converts between file formats (QIF, OFX, CSV in) | Yes | CSV and Excel in only |
| Runs entirely on your computer | Yes | No |
| Browser-based (no install) | No | Yes |
| Scanned PDF OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Xero / Sage / Wave import file | Yes | Yes |
| Merge many statements into one workbook | Not stated | Smart Merge (5 free, 100 on Pro) |
| Free use without limits on a file | Trial saves 10 transactions | 10 full pages a month |
What Is ProperSoft?
ProperSoft makes ProperConvert, a desktop converter for Windows PC and Mac. It used to sell separate apps such as Bank2QBO and Bank2CSV; today one app reads PDFs (including scanned and password-locked ones), image scans, CSV, Excel and text files, and also QBO, QFX, OFX, QIF, QMTF and MT940 files, and writes QBO, IIF, QBJ, QFX, QIF, OFX, Excel and CSV — including CSVs shaped for Xero, Sage and Wave.
It runs completely on your computer, so statements are never uploaded anywhere. It is sold as a subscription: $19.99 a month or $179.99 a year per user and device, with unlimited pages and statements, and a three-seat team plan at $49.98 a month. The free trial never expires but saves at most 10 transactions per file.
FlowParse covers the PDF part of that job in the browser instead: upload a statement, review the rows, export QBO, QFX, OFX, Excel, CSV or your accounting program's own import CSV. It does not convert QIF or OFX files and does not run offline, but you need nothing installed, every statement is checked against its own balances, and you can start on 10 free pages a month.
ProperSoft strengths
- Runs locally — statements never leave your computer
- Unlimited pages on every paid plan
- Converts between many file formats, including QIF, IIF and MT940
- Windows and Mac
Where teams want something different
- A subscription even for occasional use
- Trial files are limited to 10 transactions
- Account ID, account type and INTU.BID set by hand
- Merging statements into one workbook is not described
Why Teams Switch to FlowParse
Pay when you convert
10 free pages a month, then packs from €5 for 100 pages that never expire.
Nothing to install
Any browser, any computer — useful on locked-down work laptops.
Balance-checked
Every statement is checked against its opening and closing balance before export.
Smart Merge
A year of statements in one workbook — 5 files free, 20 on Starter, 100 on Pro.
Desktop app vs browser
Both read a PDF statement and write a QBO. The difference is where it runs and how you pay.
ProperConvert (desktop)
- Install on Windows or Mac
- Subscription per user and device
- Set Account ID, type and INTU.BID
- Statements stay on your machine
FlowParse (browser)
- Open any browser
- Free pages, then packs or a plan
- Account details read from the statement
- Balance-checked before export
Pricing Comparison
How the cost and commitment models compare.
| Feature | ProperSoft | FlowParse |
|---|---|---|
| Model | $19.99/month or $179.99/year per user | 10 free pages/mo; packs from €5; plans from €15/mo |
| Pages included | Unlimited | By plan or pack (300 pages on Starter) |
| Try without paying | Trial, files limited to 10 transactions | 10 full pages every month |
| Device | Per user and device | Any browser |
Accuracy Comparison
Both platforms use modern AI OCR — here is how extraction quality is assured.
| Feature | ProperSoft | FlowParse |
|---|---|---|
| Balance check | "Balance verified" shown in the app | Opening + transactions = closing, per statement |
| Scanned statement OCR | OCR option | Yes |
| Review and edit before export | Yes | Yes |
| Day/month order | You check it | Read from the whole date column |
| Per-field confidence scores | Not stated | Yes |
Who should choose ProperSoft?
- High-volume users who want unlimited conversions for a flat price
- Anyone whose statements must never leave their own computer
- People converting QIF, OFX, CSV or MT940 files between formats
Who should choose FlowParse?
- Occasional or seasonal converters who don't want a subscription
- Anyone working in the browser or on a machine they can't install on
- Accountants consolidating a year of statements with Smart Merge
- Users who want to test a full statement free before paying
Migrating from ProperSoft to FlowParse
Switching takes minutes — there are no templates to rebuild or models to retrain.
Export your documents
Export invoices and statements from ProperSoft or your source.
Upload to FlowParse
Drag and drop PDFs, scans, or images — no setup.
Review extracted data
Check fields in the editable preview before export.
Export
Download Excel, CSV or an import file for your accounting software.
Automate workflows
Use the API and integrations for future documents.
What ProperConvert is today
Older comparisons describe ProperSoft as a set of small one-time-licence apps — Bank2QBO, Bank2CSV, PDF2QBO. That is out of date. ProperSoft now sells ProperConvert, a single desktop app for Windows PC and Mac, and its own site says it runs completely on your computer and never uploads files to the cloud.
It reads a long list of inputs: PDF statements, including scanned pages and PDFs locked with a view password; image scans; CSV, Excel and text files; and finished financial files — QBO, QFX, OFX, QIF, QMTF and MT940. It writes QBO and IIF for QuickBooks, QBJ journal entries, QFX and QIF for Quicken, OFX or customised CSV for Xero, Sage and Wave, and Excel or CSV. It has payee renaming rules, split transactions, automatic column detection, a review screen before converting, and its sample screens show a "Balance verified" status.
That is a broad, mature tool. Several things on that list FlowParse does not do: it does not read QIF, OFX, QBO or MT940 files, does not write IIF, QBJ or QIF, and does not run offline. If you need any of those, ProperConvert is the right choice and the rest of this page is about the PDF part only.
| ProperConvert | FlowParse | |
|---|---|---|
| PDF statements in (digital and scanned) | Yes | Yes |
| Photos / image scans in | Yes | Yes |
| Excel and CSV statements in | Yes | Yes |
| QBO, QFX, OFX, QIF, MT940 files in | Yes | No |
| .QBO / .QFX / .OFX out | Yes | Yes |
| IIF, QBJ, QIF out | Yes | No |
| Xero, Sage, Wave import files | OFX or CSV | CSV in each program's columns |
| QuickBooks, FreeAgent, FreshBooks, Zoho Books, MYOB, NetSuite import CSVs | Not listed | Yes |
Subscription with unlimited pages vs pages you buy once
ProperConvert is a subscription. Its pricing page lists Complete at $19.99 a month or $179.99 a year per user and device, with all converters, unlimited pages and statements and free updates, and Team Complete at $49.98 a month or $449.97 a year for three users or devices. There is a 14-day money-back guarantee, and when a subscription ends the app falls back to the trial.
FlowParse works the other way round. Every account gets 10 free pages a month with no time limit. After that you can buy page packs — €5 for 100 pages, €29 for 500, €79 for 2,000 — that never expire, without any subscription, or take a monthly plan: Starter €15 for 300 pages, Pro €49 for 1,000, Business €99 for 3,000. Every export format is included in all of them.
So the honest answer to "which is cheaper" depends on how many pages you convert. Unlimited pages for $179.99 a year is very hard to beat if you convert thousands of pages; FlowParse is cheaper when your volume is small or comes in bursts, because you are not paying for the months you do not convert.
| Volume | ProperConvert | FlowParse |
|---|---|---|
| 20 pages a month (240 a year) | $179.99 a year, or $19.99 for each month you subscribe | 10 free pages a month + one €5 pack of 100 for the rest |
| 150 pages a month (1,800 a year) | $179.99 a year | Starter at €15 a month (€180), or packs: €79 for 2,000 pages |
| 1,500 pages a month | $179.99 a year | Business at €99 a month — ProperConvert is clearly cheaper here |
Trying it on a real statement
ProperConvert's trial never expires and lets you load files, parse them fully and create a test import file, but the saved file is limited to 10 transactions until you subscribe. That is enough to see that the format imports, not enough to check a whole month against your books.
FlowParse's free pages convert the whole statement. Ten pages a month covers a few ordinary monthly statements end to end, and you can use them without creating an account. You see every row, the statement's reconciliation status, and the exported file — so the test is the real thing, not a sample.
Fewer settings before you get a QBO
ProperSoft's own PDF-to-QBO guide asks you to check that the dates are in the right month/day/year order, correct the year if needed, and set the Account ID, Account Type, File Type and INTU.BID before converting. Those settings exist because the QBO format needs them, and ProperConvert gives you full control over them.
FlowParse fills them in for you. The account number as printed on the statement becomes the account ID, card statements are written as credit card accounts rather than checking, and the Intuit bank ID is filled in for Web Connect. The date order is decided from the whole date column — a single 07/19 proves the statement is month-first — before any date is converted, so 07/05/2026 on a US statement becomes 5 July, not 7 May. You can still review and edit every row before exporting. The PDF to QBO converter page walks through the QuickBooks import step by step.
Proving the numbers
ProperConvert's screenshots show a "Balance verified" status; its pages do not describe how the check works. FlowParse's check is simple to state: the opening balance plus every transaction must equal the closing balance, and where the bank prints a running balance, each row is checked against it. Credit card statements are checked against their summary — previous balance plus purchases, cash advances, fees and interest, minus payments, must equal the new balance.
A statement that does not add up is marked before you export, so a missed or misread row is caught at the source rather than discovered when the books do not reconcile. FlowParse does not publish an accuracy percentage; the per-statement check is the evidence.
A year of statements in one workbook
ProperConvert converts statements to files. FlowParse's Smart Merge adds the step after: one workbook with every transaction from a year of statements, from one bank or several, with a column naming each row's source file. Statements are put in date order whatever order they were uploaded in; each closing balance is compared with the next opening balance for the same account, so a missing month shows up; and a transaction that appears identically in two files is flagged as a likely duplicate upload or overlap.
These checks warn and never delete, because repeated charges inside one statement are often genuine. Smart Merge needs a free account and takes up to 5 files on the free tier, 20 on Starter and 100 on Pro.
Where your statements go
This is the biggest real difference, and it favours ProperConvert for some readers. ProperConvert runs on your computer; the statement never leaves it. FlowParse is a web service: the file is uploaded over TLS to our servers in the EU (the Netherlands), and to read it we send its text and page images to AI processing providers, some of which process data outside the EU.
What FlowParse does to limit that: a document can only be opened by the account that uploaded it, or — without an account — only in the browser that uploaded it; the original file is deleted automatically after 30 days, or at once when you delete the document from your history; and documents are never used to train AI models. If your firm's rule is that client statements never leave your hardware, ProperConvert is the honest recommendation. The security page has the details.
Switching, or using both
There is nothing to configure in FlowParse, so the switch is a check rather than a project. Take a statement you have already converted with ProperConvert and run it through the bank statement converter on the free pages. Compare the transaction count, the closing balance and the first and last dates, then import the .QBO into a test company.
Plenty of bookkeepers keep both: ProperConvert for file-to-file work — a QIF from an old Quicken file, an MT940 export, an IIF for QuickBooks Desktop — and FlowParse for PDFs, scans and year-end workbooks. For a wider view see the comparison of bank statement converters and the DocuClipper, MoneyThumb and Bank2QBO comparisons.
The deciding question is usually volume and location. If you convert hundreds of statements every month on one office computer and your statements must stay on it, ProperConvert's flat subscription with unlimited pages is excellent value and keeps everything local. If you convert a handful a month, mostly around quarter-end or year-end, from whatever computer you are at, paying for pages only when you use them and having nothing to install is the better fit. And if you are not sure, the cheapest test is free on both sides: ProperConvert's trial shows whether its files import, and FlowParse's 10 free pages convert a full month so you can compare the two outputs row by row.
| Check | Pass when |
|---|---|
| Transaction count | Matches the statement and your ProperConvert file |
| Closing balance | Statement marked as reconciled |
| Dates | No day/month swaps on a US statement |
| QuickBooks import | Lands in a test company with no duplicates |
| Scanned statement | Converts fully on the free pages |
Credit card statements
Card statements need their own logic, because a purchase increases the balance and a payment reduces it. FlowParse checks a card statement against its summary box: previous balance plus purchases, cash advances, fees and interest, minus payments and credits, must equal the new balance, and the transactions are added up by type and compared with the printed totals. A skipped purchase shows up even when the closing figure looks right.
Rows come out with date, description, category where the issuer prints one, and amount. In the .QBO and .QFX the statement is written as a credit card account, not as checking — one of the settings ProperConvert asks you to choose by hand. There is no cardholder column, so a statement covering several cards comes out as one list. The credit card statement converter page has more.
Import files in each program's own columns
ProperConvert writes OFX or a customised CSV for Xero, Sage and Wave, and lets you shape the CSV yourself. FlowParse ships fixed layouts instead: for each program it writes the columns that program's bank import expects, so there is nothing to customise and nothing to map on import. Besides Xero, Sage and Wave, that covers QuickBooks, FreeAgent, FreshBooks, Zoho Books, MYOB and NetSuite.
If you need a layout that is not on the list, the plain CSV and the Excel workbook keep every column the bank printed, so you can still build your own. Every format is included on every plan, the free pages included. You can download several formats from the same conversion — say an Excel workbook for your own records and a Xero file for the client — without uploading the statement again.
| Program | Columns in the file |
|---|---|
| Xero | Date, Amount, Payee, Description, Reference |
| QuickBooks (CSV) | Date, Description, Amount |
| Sage | Date, Reference, Details, Net Amount |
| FreeAgent | Date, Amount, Description |
| Wave | Date, Description, Amount |
| FreshBooks | Date, Description, Amount |
| Zoho Books | Date, Description, Amount, Reference Number |
| MYOB | Date, Amount, Description |
| NetSuite | Date, Memo, Amount |
If you need it in a pipeline
ProperConvert is an app you operate by hand. FlowParse also has a REST API: post a statement PDF and receive the transactions as JSON with the balance check done, or request a finished .QBO, Excel or accounting CSV directly. Several statements can be merged in one call, with the same date ordering and balance-chain check as Smart Merge in the app.
Any account can create a key, the free one included. API calls are paid from top-up pages at €0.035 per page, separate from the plan's monthly pages, and a request that would exceed the balance is refused with an error rather than billed. See the bank statement API and the API docs.
Statements from European banks
ProperConvert detects columns automatically, and so does FlowParse; the difference is in what each is tuned for. FlowParse reads European statements as a matter of course: headers like Datum, Buchungstag, Verwendungszweck, Soll and Haben, Libellé and Solde, Fecha and Importe, Data and Saldo map to date, description, debit, credit, amount and balance, and an amount written 1.250,00 is read as 1,250 rather than 1.25.
Exports keep the bank's own columns, labelled in English by default or in the statement's language if you choose, and the balance check is the same in every language.
Reviewing rows before export
ProperConvert has a review screen where you check and edit transactions before converting, and FlowParse works the same way: every row is shown in an editable grid before anything is exported, and a statement that fails its balance check is marked so you know where to look. When you fix a flagged issue, the original PDF is shown next to it — for as long as the original is stored, which is 30 days after upload.
Because the check is per statement, a fix is easy to confirm: correct the row, and the opening-plus-transactions-equals-closing test either passes or tells you the difference that remains.
