Yes. You can connect a bank or credit-card account to SparkReceipt so your transactions import automatically, with no downloading and uploading statements. You authorize the connection once through our bank-linking partners (Stripe Financial Connections for US banks, Plaid for Canadian banks), and from then on new transactions flow into your Transaction Manager on their own, where they're categorized and matched against your receipts.
Automatic bank connections are live today. They support banks in the United States and Canada, and a My bank isn't listed option searches a second partner's list of banks in your account's country. Outside the US and Canada, bank connections aren't available yet, so upload statements instead. Procountor users are the one exception. SparkReceipt only ever gets read access to your transactions and balances. It can't move money, and it never sees your bank login. The Free plan includes no bank connections, Pro includes 1 and Elite includes 10. Setting up a connection is done by an administrator or Accountant on the account. For the step-by-step, see Connect a bank account for automatic transaction imports.
Prefer to upload statements?
You don't have to connect an account. You can still upload a bank statement as a PDF, CSV, or Excel file, and SparkReceipt automatically starts extracting the transactions for you. Extracted transactions are then matched against your receipts and invoices. This works with any bank. See Bank statement extraction: the complete guide.
Bank connections live under Integrations, which only administrators and Accountants can open, so if you don't see the option to connect an account you're likely signed in with a role that doesn't have that access. Ask an administrator on your account to set it up. You can upload statements yourself in the meantime, whatever your role.
Payment apps such as Venmo, PayPal or Wise, POS systems, online stores and utility accounts have no direct connection. See Which banks and apps can I connect to SparkReceipt? for the workarounds.