How to download your NatWest statement as a PDF

Getting the PDF from NatWest

In NatWest Online Banking

1. Log in to NatWest Online Banking.
2. From the main menu choose 'Statements & transactions', then 'Statements'.
3. Pick the account, and change the year with the time period drop-down if you need to.
4. Click the statement period you want; it downloads as a PDF.

In the NatWest app

1. Log in to the NatWest app and select the account.
2. Tap the three-dot icon at the top and choose 'Statements'.
3. Select the statement.
4. Tap the export button at the top right and choose how to export it.

Other ways, history and charges

• If you cannot print, ask for a posted copy through Cora, NatWest's chat assistant, in Online Banking or the app.
• Statements older than 7 years have to be requested rather than downloaded.
• How far back: Recent and historic statements can be downloaded for up to 7 years in Online Banking.

What we read from the statement

A bank statement PDF normally shows the account and the statement period, an opening and a closing balance, and one row per transaction with a date, a description and an amount, often with a running balance. From that we build the breakdown: where the money went by category, what repeats, and totals in and out. The report is labelled NatWest when that name is printed near the top of the statement.

Dates and amounts on statements from the UK

• Dates written as 05/04/2024, 05-04-24, 05.04.2024, 2024-04-05, 05 Apr 2024, 05-Apr-24 or Apr 5, 2024. A date with a month name but no year (05 Apr) takes its year from the statement header.
• Numeric dates are read day first when the statement itself shows it, with dates such as 25/04/2024 where the first number can only be a day; statements from the UK are normally written that way. A statement whose dates all fall on the 1st to the 12th of the month gives no such clue and is read month first, so check the dates on the report for a short period.
• Amounts with two decimal places, such as 1,234.56 or 1234.56.
• Money out marked with a minus sign (before or after the number), brackets, or a DR suffix; CR marks money in. A statement with separate debit, credit and balance columns is read column by column.

Known limitations

Password-protected PDFs

We cannot open a PDF that asks for a password: the upload fails with "Could not read this PDF". Open it with the password, save or print an unlocked copy as PDF, and upload that.

Scanned statements

A scan or photo saved as PDF has no text layer, so we read it with OCR on our own server, up to the first 10 pages. OCR can misread a digit; the report says when it was used, so check its totals. A PDF downloaded from online banking is always more reliable.

Size

Up to 25 MB per file and the first 60 pages.

Dates without a year, whole-number amounts

A row whose date is only day and month in numbers (05/04) is not read, and neither is a row whose amount has no decimal part (150000 rather than 150000.00). If most of your rows look like that, the upload will say no transactions were found.

No layout made for this bank

There is no reader built specially for NatWest. One general reader handles every bank, and the report checks what it found against the opening and closing balances printed on the statement, and says so when they do not add up.

Questions about NatWest statements

Do you connect to my NatWest account?

No. You download the statement from NatWest yourself and upload the PDF. We never ask for your online banking login and cannot see your account.

Is my NatWest statement stored?

No. The PDF is read in memory and never written to disk. If you buy an export, the rows for the download are kept in your private session so the button works, and are deleted when the session expires, after at most 14 days.

Can I convert a NatWest statement to Excel or CSV?

Yes. Reading one statement on screen is free. Downloading it as a spreadsheet (a CSV file that Excel opens) needs a statement pack or a plan.

Is a NatWest statement PDF password-protected?

NatWest's own help pages that we checked do not say. If your PDF does ask for a password, open it with the password, save an unlocked copy, and upload that: we cannot open a locked PDF.

Which currency will the report use?

A statement that prints GBP outside the transaction rows is read as pounds sterling. Amounts written with £ are read as pounds sterling. If the statement prints no currency at all, the report uses pounds sterling, the home currency of NatWest, and says that is where it came from.

How far back can I get NatWest statements?

Recent and historic statements can be downloaded for up to 7 years in Online Banking. (From NatWest's help pages, checked 13 September 2026.)

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