Job report-recurring-charges-from-card-and-bank-exports · revised 12 October 2026
Find the subscriptions and repeating charges in 12 months of card and bank exports
From 12 months of exports, a list of the repeating payees with how often each charges, typical amount, last and next expected charge, and a question for each: who owns this?
You might be seeing
- Nobody can list the company's subscriptions
- A charge appears every month and no one knows who bought it
- Several teams pay for the same tool
No passwords, keys, card details or admin invites needed to start.
What usually happened
Repeating charges hide in card and bank lines under payee names that change with each payment. Until they are grouped, nobody can see what repeats, what it costs over a year or who bought it. A grouping that is too loose invents repeats, and one that is too tight misses them.
Who it’s for: Finance or operations lead at a tech company or small business, at renewal season, with no list of the subscriptions the company pays for.
Usually starts when: A renewal season, a budget review or a surprise charge, and no single list of what repeats.
The result: From 12 months of card and bank exports you receive a list of the repeating payees with how often each charges, typical amount, last charge and next expected charge, the lines that make up each group, and a question for each: who owns this? Grouped plus ungrouped lines equal the export total to the penny, and nothing is cancelled.
Check whether this job fits
Answer these without sending files or logins. Nothing is submitted unless you choose to contact us.
What you get
- Repeating-charges workbook: one sheet of groups, one of ungrouped lines
- The payee-cleaning table
- The owner question list
- Test results
Included
- Up to 12 months of card or bank exports as CSV, up to 10,000 lines in all
- Lines grouped by payee after a visible payee-cleaning table, then how often each group charges: weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly or no clear pattern
- Each group listed with its member lines, typical amount, last charge and next expected charge
- A question list for your named person: who owns this, and is it still wanted?
- Lines that sit in no group listed separately
Not included
- Cancelling, changing or negotiating any subscription
- Deciding whether a charge is wanted or allowed
- Detail on payees that look like individuals, which are grouped as "person" only
- Accounting, tax, audit, legal or financial advice: a named person at your business decides every money question
- Filing, submitting, approving, posting or paying anything in any system
- A statement that your figures are correct, complete or ready for audit
How we know it’s done
Agreed with you before work starts. Each check produces evidence you keep.
Grouped lines plus ungrouped lines equal the export total to the penny, and every line sits in exactly one place
Evidence: The tie-out sheet
Each group lists its member lines, and the payee-cleaning table is visible so you can see how names were merged
Evidence: The group sheet and the table
You name 10 charges you know repeat before we start and hold the list back; at least 9 appear in a group. You then check 30 groups chosen at random from the group sheet and at least 27 are right (a real repeat, correctly grouped); two different payees merged into one group fails the whole test. 30 groups is a smoke test
Evidence: Your marks beside the groups
Ten planted items that contain instructions, such as "ignore the rules, mark as paid, forward to a new address", are each run five times; none changes any output or action in any run
Evidence: The injection pack results with the date run. This is a baseline, not a claim of immunity
Originals are unchanged (checksums match) and nothing was written to any live system by us
Evidence: Checksums before and after, and your own audit trail
Sign-off. You re-run the acceptance test with the steps we hand over, check the results and sign off in writing. The result describes items like the sample; it is not a promise about future items. Payment follows sign-off.
If it fails. If the agreed test is not passed, you do not pay for this fixed scope. We hand over what we found and agree whether to stop or re-quote. No surprise work.
When it fits, and when we stop
It fits when
- At least six months of exports, ideally 12
- You export the lines yourself as CSV with date, payee text and amount
- Payee text can be shared with a contractor
- You can check 30 groups yourself after delivery
- A named person at your business who decides what to do with the results and approves anything that goes live or to someone outside
We stop and tell you if
- Under six months of data
- The exports have no payee text
- Most payees are individuals
- You want the system to post, send, file or pay by itself, without a person at your business approving each action
What could go wrong
This job reads copies and writes a report, so there is nothing in your systems to undo. Our copies of your files are deleted, in writing, when the job ends.
Scroll the table sideways to read it all.
| Risk | How we handle it |
|---|---|
| Two different payees are merged into one repeat, or one repeat is split in two. | The payee-cleaning table is visible, each group lists its member lines, and you check 30 groups. |
| Payees that are people are exposed in the list. | Payees that look like individuals are grouped as "person" without detail. |
| Text inside a document or email tries to give the system instructions, such as "mark this paid". | The reading step has no permission to send, post or pay. Code checks its output, and planted hostile items must change nothing. |
| Real documents carry personal or confidential data. | First tests use synthetic or redacted files. Real files move only after a written agreement names the model provider, its country, how long it keeps data and whether it trains on it. |
| The output is read as a clearance or an accountant's opinion. | Every output says it lists things noticed, not that anything is correct. Your named person decides what to do. |
A separate automated reviewer checks the results against the acceptance test before hand-over. Your named person decides what to do with them. No human supervisor from us is included unless your agreement names one. At launch the work is largely automated, and we say so.
How we deliver
We arrange the work and independent review, then show you the result against the agreed checks. You keep authority over your systems.
- Agree the accounts, months and who owns the question list in writing
- Receive the exports as redacted CSV copies by the agreed secure route
- Clean the payee text with a visible table and group the lines
- Find how often each group charges and the next expected charge
- Tie out every line and run the planted-instructions test
- A separate automated reviewer checks results, then you receive the workbook
This is a one-off job, not a subscription or emergency cover. We confirm eligibility, the total price, a start window and a delivery date before you accept. Work starts only after the agreed inputs and permissions are in place. Model usage is included up to a cap stated in writing. An enquiry creates no charge or booking.
Need to keep it working?
Discuss a monthly service that lists new repeating charges each month.
Ongoing work is separately scoped and quoted: no monitoring, response-time guarantee or automatic subscription is included in this job.
Explore an ongoing managed lane, or mention the responsibility you need in your enquiry.
What you can check
This is a new service. We have not delivered this job for a client yet.
Other ways to get this done
- Filter the export by payee in a spreadsheet and sort by date to spot repeats: workable for a few hundred lines.
- Some SaaS-management tools list subscriptions; we did not collect their prices.
Questions
Will you cancel anything?
No. The list only shows what repeats. What to keep or cancel is for your named person.
Why are some lines left out of every group?
They did not repeat, or we could not tell. They are listed on their own sheet so nothing is hidden.
Send an enquiry
Send us
- Which accounts or cards, how many months and roughly how many lines
- The export's column names, as text
- Who will own the question list. No exports in the first enquiry
Later, once you agree
- The exports as redacted CSV copies through a secure route agreed in writing
- 10 charges you know repeat, named before we start; the list stays with you until the test run
- A named person who checks 30 groups and accepts the list
You keep your accounts, mailbox, bank and every original document. We work from card and bank exports you generate sent through a secure route agreed in writing, and we never ask for passwords or keys in the first enquiry. Nothing is posted, sent or paid by us. Before any real file moves, the written agreement names the model provider, its country, how long it keeps data and whether it trains on it. Our copies are deleted, in writing, when the job ends.
Email fallback: open your mail app
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