Société Générale Statement to Excel Converter
At Société Générale, relevés de compte arrive as PDFs in e-Documents — in the Espace Client and L'Appli SG — with an e-mail within 24 hours and the same legal value as paper. SG says they stay accessible for their legal retention period as long as you hold the Banque à Distance contract: ten years from availability for account statements. To find one, you search by periods of three months.
Scanned or digital · multi-page · balance-validated · duplicates removed
FlowParse turns an SG relevé into rows: the date, the date de valeur, the libellé with the counterparty, cheque number or mandate reference, and the amount in euros with its sign — 1 234,56 read correctly. The opening balance plus every operation is checked against the closing balance, and the result exports to Excel, CSV, or a file for Pennylane, Cegid, Sage, EBP or any other accounting software.
AI extraction, no templates
Reads this bank's layout with no per-bank setup.
Every column preserved
Date, description, amount, balance and every extra field, 1:1.
Balance-validated
Opening + transactions = closing, checked on every file.
Scanned & multi-page
OCR for image PDFs; long statements stitched into one list.
e-Documents: ten years, three months at a time
SG's e-Documents page sets out the rules. Statements and other documents are stored as PDFs in the Espace Client; you are told by e-mail within 24 hours when one arrives; and they remain accessible for their legal retention period while you have the Banque à Distance contract — for account statements and the Imprimé Fiscal Unique, ten years from availability. Under « Documents », « rechercher un relevé » finds them by account and by periods of three months.
A year is therefore four searches per account, and ten years forty. Download them once, keep the PDFs, and let FlowParse turn the whole set into one table.
| Field | Captured in the export |
|---|---|
| Date | Transaction / posting date, normalised |
| Description | Payee, merchant or transfer detail, verbatim |
| Amount | Single signed value (debits −, credits +) |
| Balance | Running balance per transaction |
| Reference / type | Check number, transaction type, reference |
The relevé and its rubriques
An SG relevé gives the account holder, the agency, IBAN and BIC, the period and the opening balance, then the operations: a date, a date de valeur, the libellé — a cheque with its number, a prélèvement with its creditor and mandate reference, a virement, a card payment with the merchant — and the amount in a débit or crédit column. The closing balance follows. At the end, an « Information préalable » section lists any incident fees for the period that SG will charge 18 days after the statement.
FlowParse writes one row per operation with both dates, the full libellé and a signed amount, taken from the débit or crédit column. The « Information préalable » is a notice of future charges, not a movement — those fees appear as operations on a later relevé.
New to this? Read the guide on how to convert a bank statement PDF to Excel.
Monthly by default — or more often
SG sends relevés monthly by default and lists other frequencies on its page: fortnightly, weekly or daily, each with its own price, and a relevé sorted by type of operation. (The page dates those prices to 1 March 2018, so check the current tarifs.) A business on a daily or weekly relevé ends up with many short statements instead of twelve.
That does not change the work for FlowParse: each relevé is proved against its own balances, whatever period it covers, and Smart Merge chains them in order.
Twelve relevés, one table
For the déclaration de revenus, a company's bilan, a dossier de prêt or a succession, Smart Merge takes up to 100 SG PDFs and builds one workbook: operations in date order, the source file on every row, and a check that each closing balance is the next opening balance — so a quarter not downloaded from e-Documents shows up as a break.
Relevés from Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas, La Banque Postale or Boursorama can be merged into the same workbook, column by column.
SG to Pennylane, Cegid, Sage or EBP
French expert-comptables and companies commonly work in Pennylane, Cegid, Sage, EBP or Quadra. FlowParse exports a CSV with dates, libellé and signed amount for a bank import, plus an Excel file for review first. For a group reporting abroad, the same relevés go to QuickBooks, Xero or DATEV.
Because the libellé is kept whole, each operation can still be lettered against its facture after import.
Clean PDFs from e-Documents
A relevé downloaded from e-Documents carries real text and converts exactly. A paper relevé can be scanned and converted through OCR; scan it flat, one relevé per file.
Upload each relevé as one file so the proof can run from opening to closing balance. If you are ending the Banque à Distance contract or closing the account, download the relevés first: SG ties access to the contract.
French formats and other traps
1 234,56 with a space and a decimal comma is text in an English-locale spreadsheet, and 03/04 is the 3rd of April, not March 4th. Débit and crédit columns pasted into one list lose their sign. FlowParse writes real signed numbers and unambiguous dates.
A card payment abroad with its currency amount and commission, or a prélèvement with its long mandate reference, wraps over lines and becomes several rows in a hand copy. FlowParse keeps one operation per row, and the solde proof confirms nothing was split or dropped.
Example: a notary's office handles a succession
A notary's office handling a succession needs the deceased's SG current-account movements for the last two years. The heir with access downloads the relevés from e-Documents, three months at a time. The figures here are an illustration, not a real estate's.
Uploaded together, the relevés become one table in date order, each proved against its balances, with no period missing. Filtering the libellés shows the standing prélèvements to cancel, the pension credits that stopped, and the cheques written in the last months — the questions the notary has to answer, from one sheet.
Checks before sending
Coverage: every relevé in the period, chained by balance. Fees: the « Information préalable » amounts appearing as operations on the following relevé. Reconciled: every relevé proved before its totals are used.
And keep the PDFs. SG notes that account statements should be kept for at least ten years; the converted file is a working copy, the relevé is the document of record.
Which SG documents convert
Relevés de compte for current, savings and professional accounts list operations between two balances and convert the same way. Card statements with deferred debit convert as purchases against the debit that settles them.
The Imprimé Fiscal Unique, securities notices and fee summaries are summaries or single events for the tax return. Keep them in e-Documents; convert the relevés.
The relevé classé par type d'opérations
SG lists an option to receive the relevé sorted by type of operation rather than in date order — cheques together, card payments together, transfers together. It is easier to read by category, and harder to reconcile by date, because the running balance no longer follows the rows.
FlowParse reads it all the same: every operation becomes a row with its date, and the opening balance plus all operations must still equal the closing balance. In the export, sort by date to see the account as it moved, or by type to keep SG's grouping — the proof holds either way, because it rests on the totals, not on the order.
For a business that chose the sorted relevé years ago, this means the whole archive converts into one consistent table without re-sorting each statement by hand.
L'Appli SG and the Espace Client
SG makes the same e-Documents available in L'Appli SG and in the Espace Client on the website. The PDF is identical either way; downloading many relevés is simply quicker on a computer, where the three-month search and the download sit side by side.
Save the relevés in one folder per account and year as you go, and the yearly conversion becomes a single upload.
A clear folder structure also helps the expert-comptable, who can then take a whole year at once.
From PDF to clean data in three steps
1 · Upload the PDF
Drop one statement or many — digital or scanned, any number of pages.
2 · AI extracts & validates
Every transaction is read, amounts signed, balances checked, weak pages retried.
3 · Review & export
Check the editable preview, then download Excel, CSV, QBO, QFX, OFX or Xero.
For Société Générale the PDF is usually a relevé from e-Documents in the Espace Client or L'Appli SG.
Convert to the format you need
The same extraction powers every export — convert once, then choose the output your next tool expects.
SG keeps relevés in e-Documents for ten years, searchable three months at a time; FlowParse turns them into rows.
| Format | Best for |
|---|---|
| Excel (.xlsx) | Analysis, totals, sharing |
| CSV | Importing into any tool |
| .QBO | QuickBooks Online & Desktop |
| .QFX | Quicken |
| .OFX | Most accounting tools |
| Xero CSV | Xero statement import |
Manual work vs FlowParse
Re-typing a statement by hand is slow and error-prone. FlowParse is near-instant, accurate, and scales to any volume.
By hand, an SG PDF pastes as text — 1 234,56 is not a number in Excel, and débit and crédit lose their sign.
| What happens | By hand | FlowParse |
|---|---|---|
| Reading the data | Copy-paste line by line | AI extracts every transaction |
| Scanned statements | Re-typed manually | OCR reads them automatically |
| Debits & credits | You fix every sign | Pre-signed, normalised |
| Balance check | Manual reconciliation | Validated automatically |
| Time per statement | 20–40 minutes | Under a minute |
| A full year | Hours per account | One Smart Merge upload |
A whole year into one reconciled Excel
French accounts still see cheques, and every SG relevé shows them with their number. Prélèvements SEPA carry the creditor's name and a mandate reference. These are the fields an accountant matches against the cheque stubs and the supplier invoices — and the ones most easily mangled in a hand copy.
FlowParse keeps the libellé whole. The cheque number and mandate reference survive the conversion and can be matched after import.
Import straight into your accounting software
Need it in your books? FlowParse builds a real bank-feed file. The .QBO imports directly into QuickBooks with no CSV column mapping, each transaction carries a unique ID so re-imports never duplicate, and Quicken users get .QFX.
In France that usually means Pennylane, Cegid, Sage, EBP or Quadra.
Validated, not just converted
Each relevé prints an opening and a closing balance. FlowParse requires the opening balance plus every signed operation to equal the closing balance, and checks each row against the running balance where printed. A crédit read as a débit moves the result by twice its amount, so a wrong sign cannot pass.
Relevés that pass are marked reconciled. Anything else is shown in the preview with the gap and the operations around it, before you download.
More on the validation and reconciliation engines.
Your bank statements stay private
Bank statements are among the most sensitive documents you own. Converting one never puts it at risk.
Your Société Générale PDF is deleted automatically 30 days after upload.
Encrypted transfer
Every upload and download runs over TLS.
Auto-deleted in 30 days
Your original PDF is removed automatically 30 days after upload.
EU servers
Stored on servers in the EU.
No AI training
Your documents are never used to train models. GDPR-aligned.
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Who converts these statements
Expert-comptables, notaries handling successions, and households preparing a dossier de prêt.
Accountants
Bring client statements into Excel or QuickBooks without re-keying.
Bookkeepers
Catch up months of statements in minutes.
Small businesses
Get PDF-only statements into the books, ready for tax time.
Loan & mortgage applicants
Turn statements into a clean spreadsheet for underwriting.
Finance teams
Standardise statements from many banks into one format.
Anyone with a PDF statement
Skip the manual typing — convert and move on.
Explore the bank statement toolkit
For other French banks, see the Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas, La Banque Postale and Boursorama converters.
