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# Step 2: Export your prepared payments and payables

This tutorial has two parts, and is for Controllers and Account owners.

* [Step 1: Prepare and validate your payments and payables](http://helpcenter.spendesk.com/en/articles/4136508-step-1-prepare-and-validate-your-payments)
* **Step 2: Export your validated payments and payables ⬇️**

# Export your validated payables / payments

As soon as you are ready to export the validated payables/payments, click on the **Bookkeep** **>** **Export** tab.

Follow these steps to proceed:

1. Go to the **Bookkeep > Export** tab in your Spendesk dashboard.
2. Select the time period for the export using the available dropdown menu.
3. Choose your export options, such as whether to include supporting documents or exclude previously exported invoices.

From there, you can choose:

* the **period** to be exported.
* the **export content**, allowing you to choose:

* Include or exclude supporting documents (also referred to as receipts).
* Include or exclude payables already exported.

Click on **"view"** to get the full list of payables.

If a payable appears to have wrong information attached to it, you won't be able to edit it from the **"Export"** tab. Just click on **View**, on the payable, then on **"Send back to Prepare"** button. From there, make the necessary changes on the **"Prepare"** tab then mark it as ready.

## What's in your export?

* A purchase journal in .csv format containing all validated payables that you choose to export, for the selected period.
* A bank journal in .csv format with all the incoming and outgoing payments, validated or not, for the selected period.
* Receipts

Column customization options such as setting decimal and column delimiters, inclusion or exclusion of headers, file encoding in Unicode (UTF-8), and column ordering are available for better configuration. Additionally, native integrations with platforms like Xero, DATEV, and Netsuite enable automated exports.

# Good to know

* Download your export .ZIP file on **Bookkeep > export**. The template used will be the custom template you have defined in your accounting settings.
* Download account statements in your **Settings**.
* Download reporting files of your payments and payables in **Bookkeep > All expenditures > All payables.**
* Download a recap of payments in **Bookkeep > All expenditures > All payments.**

* To separately export supporting documents (such as purchase receipts):

* Go to **Expenditures > All expense**s **> All Payments** in the Spendesk interface.
* Filter by desired period and expense type.
* Use the "Download CSV with receipts" option to download a ZIP file containing all receipts for the selected period.