Import PayPal and Stripe

PayPal and Stripe collect payments for you, then pay the money out to your bank account. ark.flow Compta treats their CSV export like a statement: a clearing account (1090 by default) receives the payments, pays the fees and is emptied by the payouts to your bank.

Before you start

• Export your activity as CSV from your PayPal account, or your payments from the Stripe Dashboard.
• In Chart of accounts, set your clearing account’s Bank import source to PayPal or Stripe. The account’s button then appears on the Import screen.
• The file must be no larger than 10 MB.

Import the export

1. Open Import and click the PayPal or Stripe account. Other source (auto-detect) works too: both formats are recognised.
2. Drop the CSV file.
3. Review the proposals in Entry validation, then click Import all or Import selected.

What the import takes from the file

• Completed transactions only. For PayPal, the Completed status; for Stripe, payments that succeeded or are available.
• CHF only. Transactions in other currencies are skipped.
• The gross amount of each payment, against an income account suggested from the description.
• Fees in a separate entry, on account 6840 Bank charges.
• Payouts to your bank. For PayPal, a withdrawal to your bank account is recognised as a settlement and linked to the imported file, which serves as the supporting document.

The file itself is filed as a document of the account.

Common problems

Transactions are missing: they may be in a foreign currency, or not yet completed when you exported.

The clearing account doesn’t go back to zero: a payout to your bank falls outside the exported period, or the matching bank statement hasn’t been imported yet.