Exports and bookkeeping · Finance

Every file you can download from Bless for your books, and how to match each payout to the deposit in your bank.

Every export

Export	Where	What is in it
Payout CSV	Payouts	One row for each line item: Payout Date, Payout ID, Status, Transaction Date, Kind, Type, Fund, Campaign, Gross, Fees, Net, Description
Payout PDF	Payouts	Your logo, the payout, gross income by fund, a summary, the net deposit and every line item
Gifts CSV	Finance › Generosity › Transactions	One row for each gift: donor, amount, fees, net, fund, source, frequency, method, status and date
Registrations CSV	The event’s registrations	One row for each guest, with their answers. It has no amounts.

The payout files are named for the payout’s date, such as payout-2026-10-08.csv. Many payouts download as payouts-…-to-….zip.

Do this each month, for example in QuickBooks.

In Bless, open Finance › Payouts and choose Last month.
Tick the payouts and press Export PDF.
In your accounting app, find each Stripe deposit in the bank feed.
Check that its amount is the payout’s Net deposit. The dates match the day the payout reached your bank.
Split the deposit using Gross income by fund and the fees. Post each fund to its GL code.
Attach the payout PDF to the deposit.

Event ticket money has no fund. Post it to your event income account.

A GL code tells your bookkeeper which account a fund’s gifts go to. Add it to each fund in Generosity › Funds. See Create a fund.

The exports do not include the GL code. Keep a list of your funds and their codes for your bookkeeper.

Bless does not connect to QuickBooks or Xero. You download a file and add it in your books.
Stripe keeps its fee when you give a refund. The payout shows the refund as its own line.
A fee on a new gift can show Pending until the payout. See Why a fee says Pending.