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Exporting the chart of accounts as a PDF

One click on "Kontenplan PDF" in bexio, choose orientation and columns — and the whole chart of accounts sits as a cleanly typeset PDF in your download folder, with company and date in the file name.

LAST UPDATED: AUGUST 2026

Here is how you output the bexio chart of accounts as a PDF: open Accounting → Chart of accounts in bexio, click “Kontenplan PDF” (chart of accounts PDF), choose orientation and columns in the dialog and confirm with “Exportieren” (export). The file is called Kontenplan_Muster_AG_18.08.2026.pdf, for example, and then sits in your download folder — cleanly typeset, with a recognizable group hierarchy.

Step by step

  1. Open the chart of accounts under Accounting → Chart of accounts.
  2. Click “Kontenplan PDF”. The button sits next to “Konto hinzufügen” (add account); its tooltip reads “Kontenplan als PDF exportieren (Shift- oder Alt-Klick: zusätzlich Diagnose-Datei)” (export the chart of accounts as a PDF; Shift- or Alt-click: additionally a diagnostic file). If it is dimmed and “Chart of accounts as PDF is tied to your quintio account” sits next to it, sign in first — here is how.
  3. Choose orientation and columns. The dialog “Kontenplan als PDF exportieren” (export the chart of accounts as a PDF) — its note reads “Ausrichtung und Spalten wählen. Die PDF wird mit dem aktuellen Zeitstempel erstellt.” (choose orientation and columns; the PDF is created with the current timestamp) — offers “Hochformat” (portrait) or “Querformat” (landscape) and, under “Zusätzliche Spalten” (additional columns), the choices Klassifizierung (classification), Status, Verbunden (connected), Systemkonto (system account), MWST-Satz (VAT rate) and Gruppe (group) — account number and description are always included, classification and status come preselected. Your choice is remembered for next time.
  4. Click “Exportieren” (export). The button briefly shows “PDF wird erstellt…” (creating the PDF), then the download starts.

Success check: your download folder contains a PDF with the company name and date in its name (in landscape with the suffix _Querformat); the title header names the company and the number of accounts, the footer the creation time and page number.

What does the PDF look like?

Deliberately plain and print-friendly: account groups are indented and set off by font weight, inactive accounts appear grey, everything stays monochrome. If you choose many columns, landscape holds them better — in portrait it can get tight on the right.

Why do I not see the button?

  • Not signed in: then the button is dimmed, and next to it “Chart of accounts as PDF is tied to your quintio account” appears with a “Sign in” button.
  • bexio is not running in German: as of August 2026 the chart of accounts button only appears in German-language bexio accounts — detecting the chart of accounts page depends on the German interface. Postcode → city and VAT as XML work regardless of the bexio language.
  • Wrong page: the button only exists on the chart of accounts page itself, not in other accounting views.

What else the extension does is shown in the overview — for example the VAT export as XML.