Does BIR Excel Uploader Support QAP or SAWT? What It Actually Covers

A BIR Excel Uploader is, by its own site and Facebook descriptions, an Excel-to-DAT converter built around RELIEF and Alphalist Data Entry submissions, with dedicated pages for printing BIR Form 2307 and BIR Form 2316. Its public materials describe a DAT file viewer covering RELIEF, MAP, and SAWT categories — but no dedicated Excel-to-DAT generator for QAP or SAWT, which is a meaningful gap if you file either one.

What does BIR Excel Uploader actually cover? #

Based on its own site pages and Facebook posts, BIR Excel Uploader’s core job is converting a filled Excel template into a BIR-compliant DAT file for RELIEF (Summary List of Sales and Purchases) and Alphalist Data Entry, plus printing BIR Form 2307 and BIR Form 2316 certificates from Excel data.

Software listing mirrors that carry the vendor’s own description describe it this way:

BIR Excel Uploader is an “offline” web application that will convert excel file template to BIR DAT File format generated by BIR Relief or BIR Alphalist Data Entry Application.

That same listing text notes it converts to “BIR Relief Version 2.3 and the latest Alphalist Data Entry” DAT format — language that matches the RELIEF DAT structure the BIR has required in some form since Revenue Regulations No. 8-2002 first mandated electronic submission of the Quarterly Summary List of Sales and Purchases.

Beyond the RELIEF/Alphalist converter, the site has a separate page dedicated to printing multiple BIR Form 2307 certificates from an Excel template, describing two modes:

Printing of multiple BIR Form 2307 from excel file format is supported… There are two options, multiple form or single form. Multiple form uses BIR Form 2307 Excel Template while single form uses an input fields.

A separate page on the same domain, titled “BIR Form 2316 Generator,” and multiple posts on the vendor’s own Facebook page describe printing the compensation certificate (BIR Form 2316) from Alphalist data as well — so BIR Form 2316 output is part of its described feature set, not just RELIEF and Alphalist DAT files.

What its own materials describe covering:

• Excel → RELIEF DAT file conversion
• Excel → Alphalist Data Entry DAT file conversion
• Printing BIR Form 2307 certificates, single or bulk from an Excel template
• Generating/printing BIR Form 2316 certificates from Alphalist data
• A DAT file viewer for inspecting the contents of RELIEF, MAP, and SAWT-category DAT files

That last item matters for the next section: a viewer for a DAT file’s contents is a different capability from a generator that turns your own Excel data into a compliant DAT file ready for submission.

What doesn’t appear to be covered — QAP and SAWT generation #

Nowhere in the vendor’s own site pages, FAQ, or Facebook posts found for this review is there a dedicated Excel-to-DAT generator for QAP (Quarterly Alphalist of Payees, filed with BIR Form 1601-EQ) or SAWT (Summary Alphalist of Withholding Tax, attached to income tax returns). The only SAWT- or MAP-adjacent feature described is a DAT file viewer — a tool for opening and inspecting an already-generated DAT file’s contents, category by category, not for producing a new one from a spreadsheet of payee data.

That distinction is easy to miss if you only skim a feature list. See What Is QAP? and What Is SAWT? for what each filing actually requires — both need their own compliant DAT structure built from payee-level withholding data, not just a read-only look at a file someone else produced.

What its own materials don’t describe:

• A QAP-specific Excel-to-DAT generator (only Alphalist/RELIEF generators are described)
• A SAWT-specific Excel-to-DAT generator (only a DAT file viewer mentioning SAWT is described)
• Built-in validation before download — its own how-to guidance still points users to BIR’s own Validation Module as a separate step

If your quarter includes QAP or SAWT filings, its own descriptions don’t show a generator for either — only a viewer.

Coverage matrix: BIR Excel Uploader vs. BIR Online Tools #

Where BIR Excel Uploader is free, it’s reported to be free only up to a small number of line items, with registration required beyond that and user reports of a minimal fee for higher volumes — treat any specific number circulating online as unverified, since the vendor’s own site doesn’t publish a fixed figure in the materials reviewed here.

A worked scenario: RELIEF and Alphalist in one tool, QAP and SAWT somewhere else #

A bookkeeper handling a mid-sized trading company’s BIR filings uses BIR Excel Uploader every quarter to convert the company’s Excel-based sales and purchase ledgers into a RELIEF DAT file, and again for the year-end Alphalist Data Entry submission — both jobs its converter is built for. The same quarter, the same company also owes a QAP filing under BIR Form 1601-EQ for the withholding taxes it deducted from suppliers, and a SAWT attachment summarizing the BIR Form 2307 certificates it received as a payee.

Neither of those has a matching Excel-to-DAT generator in BIR Excel Uploader’s described feature set. The bookkeeper’s options are to build the QAP and SAWT DAT files by hand against BIR’s own Alphalist Data Entry and Validation Module, or use a second tool that covers those filings alongside RELIEF and Alphalist — so the quarter doesn’t require juggling two separate converters for filings that are due the same week. BIR Online Tools covers RELIEF, Alphalist, QAP, and SAWT DAT generation in one place, which is the gap this scenario runs into.

For a broader side-by-side beyond this one gap, see BIR Excel Uploader Alternative; if you’re already planning to change tools, Switching From a BIR Excel Uploader to BIR Online Tools walks through the migration steps. If you’re staying with BIR Excel Uploader for RELIEF and Alphalist specifically, Common BIR Excel Uploader Errors covers the DAT structure mistakes worth checking before you submit.

Summary #

BIR Excel Uploader’s own site and Facebook materials describe a working Excel-to-DAT converter for RELIEF and Alphalist Data Entry, plus dedicated printing for BIR Form 2307 and BIR Form 2316 — that part of its coverage is real and well-documented across its own pages. What isn’t described anywhere reviewed here is a QAP or SAWT generator; the only SAWT-adjacent feature mentioned is a DAT file viewer for reading an existing file, not building one from your payee data. A filer with QAP or SAWT obligations in the same quarter as RELIEF or Alphalist will need to cover that gap separately, whether by hand against BIR’s own Validation Module or with a tool that generates all four DAT types in one place.