Receipt Capture Software That Reads Every Field and Line

Upload photos, scans or PDFs of receipts and get merchant, date, currency, tax, tip, total and line items back as a clean table. Review the rows, then export to Excel or CSV or take the JSON into your accounting import.

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PDF, JPG, PNG, BMP, HEIC and TIFF

Receipts, bills and invoices in one flow
Every line item returned
Excel, CSV and JSON output
Flat plans from $49/mo

Why receipts pile up in finance teams

Small documents still need a ledger entry. These are the problems that make manual entry slow.

Typing the same fields again

Merchant, date, tax and total are keyed from every receipt by hand.

Photos, not clean files

Receipts arrive as angled phone images and faded thermal paper.

Mixed categories on one slip

A single receipt can span several expense categories.

Tax and tip are easy to miss

The paid amount can differ from the printed total.

Foreign currency

Travel spend comes in several currencies with no consistent format.

Duplicates

The same receipt is photographed and emailed more than once.

How receipt capture works here

One upload flow reads receipts alongside vendor invoices and bills.

Phone photos and scans

Upload images or PDFs, single or in a batch.

Header fields

Merchant, date, currency, subtotal, tax, tip and total.

Line items

Each purchased line as its own row when you need categories.

Excel and CSV

Download rows ready to sort, filter and import.

JSON and API

Take the same fields into your own application.

Batches

Process a folder of receipts in one run and review the exceptions.

Capture receipts in 3 steps

From a pile of images to rows you can import.

1

Upload the receipts

Drop in photos, scans or PDFs. A batch is fine.

2

Review the extracted rows

Check totals, dates and any row that looks unusual.

3

Export or import

Download Excel or CSV, or take JSON into your accounting import.

Who uses receipt capture

Anyone who turns paper and phone images into ledger entries.

Bookkeepers

Clean rows from client receipts without retyping.

Small business owners

Expense records ready before the tax deadline.

Finance teams with travel spend

Foreign receipts captured with their currency.

Accounting firms

One pipeline for receipts and supplier invoices across clients.

Common Search Terms

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Document Types We Handle

Retail receipts
Restaurant receipts
Fuel receipts
Travel receipts
Supplier invoices
Utility bills
Credit notes
Expense claims

What receipt capture software does

Receipt capture software reads a photo or scan of a receipt and returns the fields a bookkeeper would otherwise type: merchant, date, currency, subtotal, tax, tip, total, payment method and, where it matters, every purchased line. The point is to stop re-keying small paper and phone images into a ledger, an expense report or a spreadsheet.

A receipt is harder than an invoice in three ways. It is usually a photograph, so it is skewed, creased and badly lit. The layout is set by the till, so no two merchants look alike. And the useful data is often small: a tax line, a last four digits of a card, a tip written by hand.

Fields worth capturing from a receipt

Field Why it matters Common problem
Merchant and dateNeeded for the expense category and the periodDates printed as day, month, year or the reverse
Total, subtotal and taxNeeded for the ledger entry and VAT or sales tax reclaimTax shown as a rate with no amount, or several tax bands
Tip and gratuityThe paid amount can differ from the printed totalHandwritten tip on the card slip
Currency and payment methodNeeded for foreign spend and card reconciliationCurrency symbol missing on the receipt
Line itemsNeeded when one receipt mixes categoriesAbbreviated product names from the till

Receipts, invoices and bills are different documents

An invoice has a vendor, an invoice number and payment terms, and it asks for payment. A receipt proves a payment already made. For the books both are source documents, but the capture step differs: a receipt has no due date and no vendor address block, and it often has no number you can match. The same upload flow here reads vendor invoices, bills and receipts, and returns the fields that apply to each.

From receipt to your accounting software

The usual route is a spreadsheet with one row per receipt, or one row per line when categories are mixed. From there you can import the rows into QuickBooks, Xero or your ERP with the importer that system already has. If you only need a quick set of numbers, download the Excel or CSV and sort by date or merchant.

Photos taken on a phone work, as do PDFs and scans. Upload a batch of receipts together instead of one at a time, then review the rows that look unusual before you import.

What to check before you trust the output

  • Totals add up. Subtotal plus tax plus tip should equal the total. A mismatch usually means a missed line or a wrong decimal.
  • Dates fall in the right period. A misread day and month moves spend into the wrong month.
  • Foreign currency is labelled. Convert at your own rate after capture rather than assuming the receipt currency.
  • Duplicates. The same receipt photographed twice should be one row.

When a receipt app is enough, and when it is not

A phone expense app is enough when you only need a receipt image stored against a claim. Dedicated capture is worth it when you need clean fields in bulk, line level detail for categories, or one pipeline that also reads supplier invoices. See invoice data capture software for the invoice side and line item extraction for row level detail.

Frequently asked questions about receipt capture

It reads a photo or scan of a receipt and returns the merchant, date, currency, tax, tip, total and, where needed, each line, so nobody has to type them.

Yes. Photos, scans and PDFs are supported. Very faded or badly cropped images should be reviewed after extraction.

Yes. Each purchased line can be returned as its own row, which helps when one receipt spans several categories.

Export Excel or CSV and use the import tool your accounting software already provides, or take the JSON into your own workflow.

Yes. Receipts, bills and vendor invoices go through the same upload flow.

Plans are flat monthly subscriptions from $49 a month. See the pricing page for the page allowances.