American Express lets you download recent activity and up to six past billing statements as a CSV file. Here are the steps, and the columns the file carries.
Download the file
- 1
Sign in at americanexpress.com and open Statements & Activity for the card.
- 2
Choose a billing statement or a custom date range.
- 3
Select Download, then choose CSV.
What the file carries
Columns: Date, Description, Card Member, Account #, Amount.
Sheetful reads Date as the date, Description as the description and Amount as the amount.
American Express writes a charge as a positive Amount and a payment as a negative one, the reverse of a bank account file.
Sheetful reads a charge as money out and a payment as money in.
See your file on /try
The preview shows up to 100 rows, newest first, with the name and category Sheetful gives each one.
On /try the file is read in your browser tab, with no account.
Try it with your American Express CSVTo sync a bank account into a sheet instead, see the Google Sheets sync guide or the Microsoft Excel sync guide.