Shoeboxed Receipt Scanner App Reviews

by Gr8 Abuela

In my opinion, this is false advertisement! A ripoff! This is ridiculous! Nowhere does it tell you cost until you have wasted your time putting in the first 5 receipts! Only 5 free receipts a month allowed, yes or no? I'm confused! A business person has more than 5 receipts a month. After that, you have to pay. You have an app advertised as free, but when it's downloaded you are only allowed 5 downloads then are led to options to pay for app. Why don't you show full disclosure upfront? How can an app like yours have any credibility if you try to trick the consumer? Very very disappointed. 1 star only because it won't accept my comment without selecting a star. Actually it's -1 star from me.

by Fluffyva

I used ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp all of last year and although it would have bugs on some days, I could deal with it. Contacting developers and told to delete app and reload it. It worked for a day or so and then started its issues.

This year is is awful. Constantly not loading my image. Sometimes just shutting down. Constant errors loading.

I would entertain buying an upgrade but if it doesn't work with a free account, I have no faith paying the upgrade will solve its problems. I out to look for something else to track my receipts and sales tax.

by Howmanydeescan There Be

I was a super early user of ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp. It went from 99$ a year for 4 years to 130$ last year to $144 this year. No one bothered to tell me they were increasing their prices drastically. They just charged my card without saying. I’m an individual not a business and never okay to charge more without asking. After much research I decided foreceipt works best for me and it’s 9.99 a year. I have to enter some details like amount but I actually prefer to that because my receipts are sometimes split deductions and non deductions. As for shoeboxed it’s fine enough for taxes etc but can’t imagine anyone paying 99$ 69$ or even $29 A MONTH. That’s their new pricing plan. Deleted ,

by Jpalooza

I use the free version where I enter the information myself. When I select the date of the receipt in ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp , it doesn't make it to my actual account. I have to select the date for the receipt all over again. Also sometimes I can see all of my receipts in ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp , sometimes I can see some of them, and sometimes I get a completely blank page...none of them show. It is, however, reliable for sending the receipt image to my account so far. But that seems to be all it's good for.

by Jgrobelny01

Let me say that shoeboxed’s service is EXCELLENT, they pick up the phone unlike many other expense apps and they aren’t outsourced to someone you can’t understand which is huge. The mail in feature is great and the web app works well. The reason for 3 stars is that the mobile app only allows for 1 page receipts and for someone who deals almost exclusively with full multi page receipts this is very limiting. In order for me to use this service I have to go to the office or jump through hoops adding a receipt as multiple expenses and then merging them together in the web app all while going against my monthly total for something that is 1 receipt. Please please please add multi page support for ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp !

by Vegiegal

I have used ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp for a few years but last year or was several months before I had to stop manually changing the mileage rate to the IRS rate. Why isn’t the default automatically changed? Would also like to have mileage info more consolidated for end of year tax purposes-a ton of pages with printed maps of each route is not realistic to give to my accountant. Having actual mileage and not just the cost is what I need (especially since it was well into the year last year before I realized you didn’t update the rate!). I’ve been very loyal and like this for keeping receipts but mileage needs to be simpler for me to continue to use.

by MelissaMachete

Overall, this is fine. I would appreciate an archive function or automatically marking that something has been exported. It would great if you could tag items more than one at a time. Like how you can export one at a time, it would be wonderful to be able to do the same but be able to mark 5 receipts as reimbursed at once instead of one at a time. I’m still looking for something with a better UI, but for now this is fine.

by Lauren In The Burbs

I like being able to import all the data into a spreadsheet and immediately jump to receipts. When I photocopy them on a scanner bed it’s hard to quickly find what I need but with this you can click on the name and jump right to the receipt. Wish I knew how to edit the pdf easier if I need to add or subtract a receipt and I wish that I could just download instead of email the information and then download it

by Food For Me!

All is very helpful with a lot of potential. To be able to upload receipts onto my smartphone in one convenient location, without having to keep track of the physical copy, is an incredible find. 4 stars only because of how long it takes ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp to upload the receipt, but once the developers nail that down and make it faster this will be more than a 5 star app.

by MrTgwiz

Finally a competitor to ####. Although more pricey, you get first hand service with actual people looking at your documents, there’s no convoluted system of credits and half software half Internet-based interface attempts. The jury is still out but so far so good, I’m impressed and I’m in love! We’ll see how long the honeymoon phase lasts and turns into a marriage.
That’s one of the only reasons for the four stars instead of five although I would like the ability to edit the photos lately within ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp even rudimentary items such as cropping

by Tannybambam

Shoeboxed has come a long way over the years. I really appreciate the simple interface. However if you're looking for a basic recipe tracker I am not sure if this is it. This is definitely aimed toward business customers and work related expenses. Not something I'd upload my everyday receipts to just for safe keeping.

Love the option to mail in receipts and have Brit team enter the data for you. Love the gasoline sync feature. It's pretty awesome just a bit much for the every day user.

by Mikkeljr

Overall I’m happy with this service. ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp has a few bugs, and the website is quirky, but it generally works ok. It’s a bit slow, and not especially good at recognizing receipts in foreign currency, but I always verify everything before exporting an expense report. Nice that you can export as both Excel (csv) and PDF. The PDF includes the photos of your receipts. Also, you can forward email receipts so you don’t need to use ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp for those.

by Smaeass

After trying a multitude of apps and software to keep and organize my work and personal receipts, I stopped looking when I found Shoeboxed. It is the best-priced with the most features. Take a photo of your receipt or use snail-mail to send in receipts using prepaid envelopes provided by Shoeboxed. Another available option I have not tried is to have Shoeboxed automatically scan your email inbox for receipts. For each receipt submitted, Shoeboxed inputs all the information from each receipt and remembers how you want to categorize receipts from a given store. Create custom expense reports and include the scan of the original receipt if you wish. According to Shoeboxed, all digitized receipts are accepted by the federal government if you wish to use them for tax purposes. If I could give ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp six stars I would!

by Alldsny

For anyone who has too much to do and never enough time this is a godsend! My tax prep team loved the reports and desktop options. They are recommending to all their starter uppers! It spared me of the checking for all receipts, cataloguing, archiving... in a nutshell it saves time and sanity!

Just one tweak that would help-the save to shoebox from texts isn’t working. It opens ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp but still requires me to upload the image to my photo gallery. Not a big deal just extra steps you seem to be trying to edit out... I am eager to see that feature work.

by Rbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb1

I recently started my own business and having the ability to snap a picture of my receipts and have the organized by different expense categories makes my life a lot easier. And with the ability to integrate with with my accounting software is fantastic.

by KMS5808

I have use ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp for several years now and absolutely love it. It is help keep me organized with all of my receipts in one place. You’re able to email receipts to your inbox or scan them with your phone. It is saved us so much time when it comes to doing her taxes or going over our budget. It’s very easy to use as well

by JohnHales

I love ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp and use it daily, but I have run into a few issues, like the ability to upload a refund (negative amounts are impossible). I've searched the help site and emailed several times for support and while I previously got a reply within a day or two, my latest request has been outstanding for several weeks. If I could get this resolved, I'd rate ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp as 5 stars again.

by Elnriz

I use ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp for my businesses every day; I have a larger plan. Mileage tracker has issues. I like the simplicity of ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp . I hate that I have to make corrections to every processed receipt. Every time! The date is always off by one day. No one at Shoeboxed ever records the tax amounts off the receipts. Often don’t even record the payment method. Fix the mileage tracker and pay attention to the details on the receipts and this could be great.

by 155SUE

Just downloaded ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp – it was easy and intuitive to use and the picture comes out great of your receipt! I wanted something to keep track of all my receipts instead of stuffing them into my wallet! I tend to keep receipts for up to a year in the event that anything ever needed to be returned so this gives me peace of mind. Also it is nice that you can organize your receipt for medical expenses. Concerns I have are simply whether stores will except a digital receipt in lieu of paper original. Time will tell.

by Earthgrrl

I want to love it but cannot.
It loses receipts and is kind of confusing to use. The feature for recognizing receipts in my inbox does not work- I have to forward them.
There should be a warning sent when an item did not get processed somehow.
I had some free time ( rare as a business owner) and scrolled through trying to see what had been processed and also looking for lost receipts for my rent.
I found a receipt from early Feb that said “error in processing” or something like that.
I don’t have that much time to go back and make sure it got processed. Luckily I had the receipt and re-entered it. I guess I cannot throw out receipts until I check to make sure they went through that is time consuming.
At least my banker boxes are emptying out. It’s more time to file and check to make sure it got filed but eventually, you don’t have to have a garage to store your business receipts.

by Luvslexi

There are definitely consistency issues. It has yet to be a smooth process. I am constantly having to reopen a receipt and add some bit of information for a second time as it never saved. I am in the process of catching up on all of my years receipts so this is very time consuming without having issues with ShoeboxedReceiptScannerApp . Also at times all of my files are GONE! It was a horrible sinking feeling to see everything gone. To fix this problem I logged out then back in again. What a relief, it was all there. I have noticed that this happens when using the search feature.