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Find
receipts quickly
If you’ve
ever looked for a receipt for a warranty repair, you
probably had trouble finding it. With ReceiptWallet,
receipts are located quickly and easily.
Expense
reports
Do you have to prepare expense reports? If so,
ReceiptWallet can help. Once you store your receipts in
ReceiptWallet, you can select the receipts to email, print,
or export to PDF.
Taxes and
Accounting
In many cases, the IRS (or other tax
authority) may accept electronic copies of your receipts.
ReceiptWallet makes gathering information for taxes a snap!
Warranties
If you have ever had to get a product
repaired under warranty, you know how hard it is to find
the receipt to prove it is under warranty. With
ReceiptWallet, simply scan in the receipt, add some notes
about the product and now you can find the receipt quickly.
Rebates
Everyone is enticed by rebates, but handling
the paperwork and remembering about them is such a hassle.
With ReceiptWallet, scan it in, put in a note that it is a
rebate and you can quickly find the rebates later on. To
make things even easier, add an appointment to iCal to
remind you to check on the rebate. Without leaving your
desk, you can now look up the rebate and see where it is.
Flexible Spending
Do you have a flexible spending plan or a cafeteria plan at
work? If so, then you know how much of a pain it is to
gather up all the paperwork when the time comes to submit
the receipts. With ReceiptWallet, put items into a category
called Medical or Flexible Spending, then create a smart
collection for the time period, say the last six months.
Next select the receipts, hit print and you’ve now handled
most of the work already. If your plan accepts it, you can
even export the text content of your receipts as a CSV file
and import it into Microsoft Excel; you can print this and
might be able to simply submit it.
What is it?
So what is ReceiptWallet? ReceiptWallet is a
Mac OS X program that allows you to scan in and manage your
receipts. When you scan in each receipt, you enter a few
pieces of information about the receipt such as the
merchant, the amount, and category and then you can quickly
and easily locate your receipts. You can view the receipts
right on the screen, print them, email them, or save them
as PDFs. In addition to the powerful search built into
ReceiptWallet, you can organize your receipts into
collections. These collections can contain whatever you
want and even better than that is the ability to create
smart collections that automatically create collections
based on whatever criteria you like. For instance, you can
create a smart collection that contains all of your grocery
store receipts or one that contains receipts for a certain
year. The possibilities are endless.
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December 16th, 2006 at 12:59 am
Hmmm… Interesting app… I’m tempted, even though it seems to be a one-trick pony. OK, maybe 1.5 tricks.
You should include a link to the developer’s site, so we don’t have to run to google to get it.
December 16th, 2006 at 1:11 am
I like the idea but I wish it was a part of some other application like my newly acquired DEVON-think…I am still feeling the MacHeist goodness….can I get an AWWWWYYAAAA?
December 16th, 2006 at 1:19 am
Ok, it may be cooler than storing your receipts in a shoebox; but any time you save from not having to search through a shoebox full of receipts, you’ve already spent on: reading the description and reviews, downloading and installing the software, scanning and tagging all your receipts, not to mention working at minimum wage, you’ve already wasted 2 hours because of the (discounted!) purchase price.
I can only see this appealing to people who go through their receipts very regularly…
December 16th, 2006 at 1:42 am
Ya, I ahve to agree that this:
1. Looks incredibly useful for this single purpose….
2. Is the feature most missing from Quicken, Cah-Ching et. al.
If it were to cost just a bit less, and be a plug-in that integrated seemlessly with all of my business’ accounting needs (i.e., here’s the record of the expense, and here’s the proof for the IRS audit.)
December 16th, 2006 at 2:38 am
Yeah this seems like a really brilliant idea. Unfortunately, I’d use it for about 2 weeks before I fell back into the habit of just throwing my receipts in a box. Curse my laziness.
December 16th, 2006 at 3:20 am
Yeah… nice idea. But when I think of the scanning process, saving the file, putting the receipt into the database… Gosh, I prefer my shoebox and going through the stuff once a year.
December 16th, 2006 at 4:15 am
uh, I won it, how nice. But I am definetly the most wrong guy for such an app. Mmhm maybe my fellow students have some use for it.
December 16th, 2006 at 5:12 am
hmm interesting, how about adding iSight webcam support so you don’t have to scan them? That would be awesome.
December 16th, 2006 at 8:01 am
Hmmmm…
I’ve read about this app before, but the price always seemed too high for my use. It looks very nice. However I wonder if something like KIT or DEVONthink wouldn’t work *for me* just as well. I’ve tried scanning monthly bills & receipts before, using PaperPort on a PC, but found I quickly put off doing it and the stack of bills/receipts got bigger and bigger, which made me put off doing it more & more…
I don’t know, I’m going to have to think about this one. I really like the idea, I just don’t think I’ll be disciplined enough to make it work for me.
Decisions, decisions! At least I have a couple days to decide.
December 16th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Actually, I decided to bite on this one.
The developer has answered two of my questions and worked with me to figure out the compatibility of my scanner. He’s also indicated some improvements he will be making to address certain scanners.
My wife will like this app, so she doesn’t have to write all the receipts down. I like the iSight suggestion – seems workable.
December 16th, 2006 at 9:06 am
Why not just use iphoto?
December 16th, 2006 at 9:23 am
If I was disciplined enough to “…enter a few
pieces of information about the receipt…” after I scanned a receipt I wouldn’t need this application. I would just scan into folders in the finder or DevonThink.
December 16th, 2006 at 11:35 am
Now that Devonthink Pro Office is available ( as a beta ), and it has an OCR engine built in, I’m going to upgrade from Pro to Pro Office and manage my receipts in it. Without OCR, I don’t see a use in scanning paper documents into my system because as long as the text in the document can’t be searched or copied to the clipboard, the benefits of digitizing the documents do not justify the effort. I don’t want to have to tag and sort all my receipts, and put them in a messy hierarchical folder. I just want do be able to search their contents. Anyway, if I did want to scan and import receipts into a my system without OCR, I’d probably stick to iphoto… or the Finder.
Happy Holidays Everyone!!! :)
December 16th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Ericq
The Devonthink Pro Office/Fujitsu Scanner option is one of my priorties to check out a MacWorld Expo next month.
December 17th, 2006 at 12:50 am
Not to be picky … but it is 12:52am Pacific time and this app is still on the home page of MacZot. Interesting… maybe they’re hoping to sell a few more before they put up a new one?
December 17th, 2006 at 1:04 am
Weird. I wrote a comment here hours ago and submitted, and it never showed up.
When I tried to resubmit, it said I was duping my submission.
Anyway, I went ahead and bout this, but I almost didn’t because there was absolutely no good info on the developer’s site saying who the person was and why I should trust him or her, like a bio, or even a list of other apps previously done. I hunted around and found the parent company, though, and there were multiple apps, so I’m taking a chance.
MacZot, please remind your developers to dress for the party, so to speak. people want to see this kind of info when trying out new small app writers.
Everyone, tagging and everything isn’t going to be burdensome if you’re diligent with doing it when you get a new receipt. Don’t wait til the end of the month to start putting these in, just like you shouldn’t wait til then to pay bills if you can help it.
December 17th, 2006 at 2:49 am
I think this is a great idea…
but it’s charging way too much. This is a really simple thing to implement, it’s just a categorized image viewer that stores metadata. Props for them for creating it, but for $20+, I’d expect at least a rudimentary OCR. Receipts are printed anyway, most with the exact same font, so it’d be easy compared to any OCR that reads multiple fonts.
December 17th, 2006 at 5:36 am
I think the problem with .apps like this adding OCR functionality is that they have to purchase a license to use an OCR engine, (such as the ABBYY Finereader engine used in DTPO). That can be expensive, and if this .app had to bump its price up… oh, let’s say, $20; it might be suicide. Maybe if they offered an OCR and non-OCR version it would help them out. Come to think of it, DTPO is the only afforadable OCR solution currently available for the Mac. I’d like to see more developers tap into the technology. Confucius say OCR is the key to obtaining true paperless office…. and eternal enlightenment…. gonk…