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Receipt scanner app and receipt scanner for business that turns a photo into a coded expense

A receipt scanner app for business should do more than save a picture. Expenditure reads the vendor, date, amount, tax and line items from a phone photo, a scanned PDF or a forwarded email, codes the expense to your QuickBooks Online, Xero or NetSuite accounts and flags a receipt that is already in the books, from $12 per seat a month billed yearly.

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Receipts in · categorized spend out · waste flagged

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Receipts in, categorized spend out

Expenditure reads the vendor, amount, date and tax, categorizes the expense, checks it against your policy, and rolls it into a up-to-date picture of every dollar, then flags the waste.

Choose a receipt above, then press Extract.

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Categorized and policy-checked in seconds

Upload your own receipt above, or pick another sample.

Every receipt your team sends is read and coded like this.

Visa Mastercard Your bank QuickBooks Xero NetSuite

Works with your existing cards

Bank-grade · we never move your money

That difference matters because the scan was never the slow part. A consumer receipt scanner turns paper into an image, and then somebody still types the vendor, picks the category, works out which card line it paid for and asks whether it was allowed. Across a team of ten that is hours every month, and it is exactly the work a business receipt scanner should remove.

Here is how it works in practice. Employees photograph receipts on their phones or forward emailed receipts to your company receipt inbox. Anyone with a desktop scanner can upload up to ten PDF, JPEG, PNG or HEIC files at a time. Each receipt becomes its own expense with the account already chosen. When you import the card or bank statement as CSV, OFX or QFX, every line is matched to the receipt you already have, and lines that were already booked are marked so nothing is entered twice. On Growth, each expense is also checked against your policy and routed for approval by amount, vendor or GL account.

It works with the Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards and the bank you already use. Expenditure never issues cards, never moves or holds money, and never sells your data or trains a model on it. It is software, not tax advice, so confirm receipt retention rules with your CPA.

Why it works

What your team gets with receipt scanner app

Reads the whole receipt

Vendor, amount, date, tax and line items are pulled by OCR, so you never key a receipt in by hand.

Coded to your accounts

Each scan is sorted to the right GL account in your chart, and on Growth it is checked against your policy before anyone approves it.

Matched to the card line

Import the card statement as CSV, OFX or QFX and each line is matched to its receipt, so nothing floats unreconciled at close.

What it handles

A receipt in, a categorized line out, the waste flagged

Expenditure reads each receipt, categorizes it, checks it against your policy and rolls it into up-to-date spend, then surfaces the duplicate subscriptions and savings you are leaking.

  • Reads vendor, amount, date, tax and line items from photos, scanned PDFs and forwarded emails
  • Codes each receipt to your QuickBooks Online, Xero or NetSuite account
  • Flags a receipt that looks like one already in the books
  • Matches imported CSV, OFX or QFX statement lines to the receipts you have
  • Checks expenses against policy and routes approvals on Growth
  • Flags duplicate subscriptions and unused seats in your spend
Extracted In policy

Categorized receipt

VendorFigma
Amount$144.00
CategorySoftware → SaaS
GL account6420 · Software

Savings insight

save $108/mo

You are paying for Figma and Sketch. Teams on both usually consolidate to one.

Visa · QuickBooks · Xero We never move your money

Why Expenditure

Receipts read, spend categorized, waste flagged

Not manual coding, not a stale spreadsheet. Expenditure reads each receipt, checks your policy, shows up-to-date spend, and flags the savings, all on the cards and banks you already have.

Read and categorized

Snap, forward or drop a receipt. The AI reads the vendor, amount, tax and line items, categorizes it and matches the card, in seconds.

Waste flagged

Duplicate and overlapping subscriptions, unused tools, price creep and out-of-policy spend, surfaced as expenses come in with the potential saving.

Secure and in your control

Bank-grade security, we never move or hold your money, and we never train on your data. Insights, not advice, your finance team decides.

Good questions

Questions about receipt scanner app

Expenditure reads the vendor, total amount, date, tax and individual line items with OCR. It then categorizes the expense to the right account, checks it against policy and matches it to the card, so a single snap produces a complete, clean expense.
On Growth it is flagged as it is scanned, with the reason, so the employee and finance see it before it reaches the books. Expenditure is software and insight, so your finance team makes the final call, not the app.
For one person saving receipts for taxes, a basic scanner app is enough. For a business where several people submit receipts that must be coded, matched to card lines and approved, pick a scanner that does those steps too. Expenditure reads, codes and duplicate-checks each receipt from \$12 per seat a month billed yearly.
Yes. Expenditure reads each receipt and assigns it to an account in your own QuickBooks Online, Xero or NetSuite chart of accounts, not a generic category list. If you correct an account by hand, statement lines from that vendor follow your correction on the next import, so coding gets faster each month.
Yes. Import your card or bank statement as CSV, OFX or QFX and Expenditure matches each line to a receipt you already scanned. Lines already in the books are marked as booked, so the unmatched lines are the short list of receipts someone still has to find.
Yes. Scan to PDF, JPEG or PNG with any scanner, including older Neat or Fujitsu models, and upload up to ten files at a time, each up to 10 MB. Keep one receipt per file so each becomes its own expense. You can also forward emailed receipts to your company receipt inbox.
Yes. Under Revenue Procedure 97-22 the IRS accepts electronic images of receipts if they are legible and complete and you can retrieve and print them when asked. A business receipt scanner keeps the original image attached to the expense, which covers that requirement. Confirm your own retention period with a tax professional.
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