Upgrade Your Business With FreshBooks’ Receipt Scanner App
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Scan and save paper and digital bills and receipts
Automatic mobile receipt scanning
The fastest way to log and categorize expenses in your account.
- Scan and save paper and digital receipts
- Auto-capture the merchant, totals, and taxes
- Email receipts directly to your account to capture transactions
Learn more about capturing expenses
Never lose another receipt
Make tax time a breeze
Automatic mobile receipt scanning
The fastest way to log and categorize expenses in your account.
- Scan and save paper and digital receipts
- Auto-capture the merchant, totals, and taxes
- Email receipts directly to your account to capture transactions
Learn more about capturing expenses
Never lose another receipt
Make tax time a breeze
Automatic mobile receipt scanning
The fastest way to log and categorize expenses in your account.
- Scan and save paper and digital receipts
- Auto-capture the merchant, totals, and taxes
- Email receipts directly to your account to capture transactions
Learn more about capturing expenses
Never lose another receipt
Make tax time a breeze
File Your Taxes With Confidence
Expense tracking can make or break your tax return. FreshBooks receipt scanning feature not only makes tracking expenses easy, but it also keeps your books tax-time ready.
Scan On-The-Go, Categorize Later
Scanned expenses await your approval in FreshBooks. So whether you’re at your desk or on the go, you can schedule a convenient time to complete each transaction.
On-Demand Bulk Expense Export
Export receipts in multiple formats for better workflows. Streamline records and expense reports, easily reviews budgets and spending, and back-up tax claims fast.
FreshBooks Receipt Scanner App Versus…
Get Receipt Scanning + Invoicing + Payments + Projects… you get the idea. FreshBooks ensures everything is tracked, properly reported, and ready for tax time. Try doing that with a standalone receipt scanner.
Don’t take our word for it, take theirs
FreshBooks has really helped me to be more efficient throughout the year so that tax time…it’s less stressful
Damona Hoffman
Dear Mrs D, Inc.
FreshBooks has really helped me to be more efficient throughout the year so that tax time…it’s less stressful
Damona Hoffman
Dear Mrs D, Inc.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Plus Plan: Receipt merchant, date, totals, and taxes are captured and stored.
- Premium Plan: Upload both bills and receipts and capture vendor and merchant dates, totals, and taxes.
- Select Plan: Upload both bills and receipts and capture vendor and merchant dates, totals, and taxes. Line items are automatically extracted and auto-populated into bill entries.
Other accounting software packages or receipt scanning apps may limit your expense management by capping the number of receipts or bills you can scan each month. FreshBooks gives you unlimited receipt scanning. So not only is it incorporated with one of the best and most popular accounting software solutions around, it lets you do as much expense recording as you need to.
- Extract expense data from uploaded bills, paper receipts (photos), and digital receipts (PDFs or HTML)
- Review that captured receipt scanning data is 100% correct before submitting
- Team members can upload and manage their own scanned receipts and bills
- Keep digital copies of all uploaded scanned receipts and bills for tax filing time and to manage audits
- Receive automated vendor and merchant suggestions based on existing contacts
- Forward digital bills and receipts from your email inbox directly to a unique FreshBooks email address for scanning—you can also give this email address as the “A/P inbox” to your suppliers, or enable auto-forwarding rules in your email account
- Easily bulk download all uploaded receipts and bills for backup or audit purposes
- Line items are automatically extracted and auto-populated into bill entries (Select Plans only)
Mobile is one of the best ways to use our receipt scanning app feature and handle multiple receipts at a time. With all of the same functionality as uploading digital receipts, it allows you to easily snap a photo of a receipt using your FB mobile app to capture all the details.
You can also optimize each paper receipt for receipt border detection, lighting, and image enhancements.
Combine this with the amazing FreshBooks mileage tracking app and running your small business from your mobile device just got even easier.
Any business that needs any easy way to keep track of expenses, whether they’re digital receipts or paper receipts, or emailed bills and bills that come through the mail.
Automate some of the more menial and time-consuming processes necessary to run your business. Scanning receipts takes seconds, while typing in receipt information can take hours if you have a number of receipts to log. You can also scan receipts on the go or at your own convenience to ensure you never miss another expense.
The FreshBooks bills scanning feature is part of the Accounts Payable suite in FreshBooks’ accounting software, while the receipt scanner is available in Plus (without Accounts Payable), Premium, and Select plans This means as a FreshBooks customer, you can capture all your payables in minutes—and have everything accurately entered without needing to type it yourself. This makes it easy to track all bills and receipts coming in and keep your books accurate and organized.
OCR means optical character recognition. Essentially, receipt scanning works by intelligently scanning the information on your bills and receipts. That scanned information is then logged into your FreshBooks account to ensure expense information is properly tracked.
When tax time rolls around and you need to generate accurate expense reports or any other related report you know everything has been accurately tracked and logged in FreshBooks accounting software.
