Bank statement import

Your bank statement, sorted

Got paid by a platform straight into your bank? Give Hamster the PDF statement from your banking app and it picks out the payments that look like side-hustle income, ready for you to check and add. It reads the statement on your phone, nothing is uploaded, and it checks every payment against the balances printed on the statement.

PremiumRolling out now on AndroidNot on iPhone yet

It’s part of Hamster 1.4.0 for Android, which Google Play is rolling out in stages. Update Hamster from Google Play to get it. If you don’t see the update yet, it hasn’t reached your phone, so check again in a few days.

How it works

1
Download a PDF statement
Download a statement from your banking app as a PDF. Scanned or password-protected PDFs can’t be read.
2
Share it to Hamster
Share the PDF to Hamster from your banking app or Files, or choose it in Hamster with Import your bank statement on the Dashboard.
3
Tick what’s side-hustle income
Hamster lists the money-in payments that look like side-hustle income. You review them and tick the ones to add. Nothing is saved until you confirm.

It stays on your phone

Hamster reads the statement on your device and works offline. The statement and its contents are never uploaded to us or anyone else.
The PDF isn’t kept. Hamster reads it once and doesn’t save a copy.
For the payments you confirm, Hamster saves the date, amount, category and, where it recognises one, a short platform name, never the full bank description. No account number, sort code, name or address is saved.

Checked, or not added at all

Hamster checks the payments it finds against the balances printed on the statement. If it can’t verify a statement completely, it won’t add anything, and it tells you why. If you import the same statement twice, it warns you and ticks nothing.

Changed your mind? Undo it

Every import can be undone: straight after, or later from Settings, then Bank statement imports. Undo deletes the payments that import added. You can also delete single entries in History.

Part of Premium, on Android

You can see what Hamster finds in a statement for free. Adding the payments is part of Hamster Premium. Rolling out now on Android; it isn’t on iPhone yet.

Which banks?

So far it has been tested with Chase and sample statements. If yours doesn’t work, tell us at hamsterapptax@gmail.com with your bank’s name and the message Hamster showed. Please don’t send the statement itself.