# Midday is closing, and its export reads in whole here

URL: https://www.orla.finance/en/midday-alternative
Markdown twin of that page. Append `.md` to any Orla page URL to get one.

Midday is winding down and you have ninety days. Orla reads that export whole, categories and receipts included.

Per Midday's announcement of 27 August 2026: accounts stay active for ninety days, with a full export throughout.

#### What comes across, and what does not

- Transactions (Across every account): In your export: Booked to the account you point them at, in their own currency
- Your categories (The ones you chose yourself): In your export: Kept as they are, with no tax rate invented for them
- Receipts (Files attached to a payment): In your export: Filed against the same payment, not into a pile
- Customers (Names, tax numbers, addresses): In your export: Your address book, ready to invoice from
- Invoices you issued (PDFs and their numbering): In your export: Stored as documents, deliberately not as invoices of yours
- Vault files (Contracts, agreements): In your export: Documents, searchable
- Tracked hours (Projects and timers): In your export: Not imported. Orla does not track time

Old invoices stay documents on purpose: their numbering belongs to the books you are leaving, and filing them as yours would put another company's history into your VAT return.

#### Three steps, and not one of them is retyping

Your books are a file. A file is something software can read.

- In Midday, ask for the full export from team settings. It arrives as one ZIP.
- In Orla, open Import and choose Coming from Midday. Drop the ZIP in.
- Point each of their accounts at an account here, or let Orla create it. Nothing is written until you say so.

#### When Orla is the wrong move

Better to read it here than to find out after the import.

- Billable hours are how you invoice. Orla has no timer and no timesheets, and that was the heart of Midday for a lot of people.
- You want a US corporate card programme with spend controls. That is what Ramp is for, and their team offered eligible customers a path.
- Your accountant wants a specific ledger file every month. Orla exports clean books, but it is not a replacement for their software.

#### Money Midday never saw

If any of this is your money, the move decides itself.

- Coins on an exchange or in a wallet, priced by the day they moved and taxed like the rest of your income.
- Invoices paid in crypto or in fiat, chased the same way either way.
- A company, a family and your own money in separate books, without three logins.
- A VAT and tax centre that reads the same ledger the rest of the app reads.

The free plan has no time limit, connections are read only, and leaving again takes your data with you.