Download one ADP statement as a text PDF
Most employees sign in at my.adp.com, or they open the ADP mobile app and land in the same pay area. A link in a pay notification email usually goes to the same place. Open Pay, then Statements or Pay Statements, and pick a single pay date.
Use Download or the PDF icon when you see one. If the statement only opens on screen, use the browser print dialog and choose Save as PDF. That file is what you upload here. A photo of a paper stub, or a scan from a copier, has no text layer, and StubCSV will ask you for a text PDF instead of guessing at the numbers.
ADP layouts vary, and the parser is generic
There is no separate ADP mode. Workforce Now, RUN, and other ADP products can all produce a normal earnings statement, and employers tweak the columns. Many statements print a current amount and a year-to-date amount, and a lot of them put earnings beside taxes or deductions. StubCSV reads the text positions in the PDF, splits a wide horizontal gap into separate columns, and labels each line from the words on it: Regular, Overtime, Federal Income Tax, Social Security, 401(k), and similar.
You get a row per line, with rate and hours on earnings rows when those numbers are actually on the line. Year-to-date amounts come along only when the statement has a YTD column. Direct deposit lines (checking, savings, routing, account) are skipped, so bank details from the deposit block are not copied into the sheet. Lines the parser cannot classify are left out, which is why the preview is there.
A year of statements for a lender or a landlord
Mortgage and rental applications often want several paystubs in a spreadsheet. Every detailed CSV uses the same columns (employer, employee, pay date, period start, period end, category, description, rate, hours, current, YTD), so you can paste one ADP statement under the next and filter by category.
After extraction we check that gross pay minus taxes and deductions equals net pay, within five cents. A green check means those extracted totals agree with each other. A warning tells you the gap so you can compare those lines with the PDF before you send the sheet anywhere. ADP layouts differ by employer, so the preview is the check that matters.
The file Excel actually opens
The free download is a CSV. Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, and LibreOffice open it directly. Paid plans add a formatted .xlsx workbook with the same numbers. Two successful conversions a day are free, and the PDF is processed in memory and discarded.
If ADP gave you one PDF that contains every statement for the year, split it first. Each upload is read as a single pay statement. A password-protected PDF has to be opened and reprinted with Print, then Save as PDF, before it will convert.