Receipt Pal: Rewards & Scanner Reviews

I used to use ReceiptPal to log every receipt. The rewards are very small and it’s hard to accumulate enough points to earn anything decent. But having an easily accessible way to find older receipts made ReceiptPal worth its trouble, worth the trouble until now. They added the ability to scan the phone for e-receipts. Sounds great in theory, but they automate the system to scan your phone each time you open ReceiptPal . This takes several minutes and is way beyond intrusive and annoying! Want to just quickly scan in a receipt? Forget it! It’s not happeninYg! You do not have the option to choose whether to scan the entire phone or not. It happens as soon as you open ReceiptPal . Scanning a simple receipt is now an event! Make sure you set aside 5 minutes or more each time you want to scan a single receipt. Think saving a small amount of receipts to scan in all at once will make it easier? Good luck! Most likely they will no longer be valid! They use to allow this and give you a 2-3 weeks to scan. Now they will only allow you to scan in receipts that are 3-4 days old, so you have to do it more frequently and each time requires a significant amount of time. The rewards are small and no longer worth the effort and time involved. I am finished with Receipt Pal and will no longer give these leaches so much of my time.

I love receipt apps, it sort of “give back” if you submit in your receipts. At first I couldn’t connect to email in one go and had to make an “account key” from yahoo in order to give permission to ReceiptPal to access your Email. Didn’t think much into it and started using ReceiptPal for a week however, I wasn’t able find much use in ReceiptPal so I tried unlinking my email but didn’t let me unless I add in another email. I didn’t wanna give it another try so I just deleted ReceiptPal off my phone. Couple weeks later, I received a notification on my yahoo mail app asking me to confirm a log in. I blinked for the longest time because I wasn’t behind this. Thankfully yahoo had additional protections so I was able to deny access to whomever it was. I wasn’t sure who it was but ReceiptPal was the most recent time I used my email. I had to connect mh email and activate account key (all this process is why I don’t log into my email for apps). Since ReceiptPal is the reason why I have an account key, I received the notification shortly after deleting ReceiptPal in which concludes that ReceiptPal is sketchy. I could be wrong but the incident followed so it’s hard to not be suspicious.

ReceiptPal is a great one to get gift cards free. They do have a limit on dates receipts can be excepted, so you really need to log your daily receipts on the same day you get them. You can only get a total of 300 points per week for filling each of the cards they issue weekly. Plus you get extra points on top of each card of 100 for completing a card. But don’t stop scanning in cause those will give you a ticket to try and win the $250. drawing. Each weekly set of cards runs from Sunday through Saturday. If you can’t scan a grand total of 12 receipts in one week, they will bump your incomplete cards to the following new week. Say you only scan 7 receipts in a week, the next week you will have to scan the normal 12 plus the other 5 from the previous week. It can get strenuous and nerve racking especially if you get sick! But it is possible if you watch the dates of acceptable receipts and scan them in the same day. It’s taken me 6 months to be able to cash out at just $45. so I’d really like to see more points per week given.

What I do like about ReceiptPal is that receipts from most places are accepted and they all get the same amount of points regardless of the amount. What I don’t like is that you can only submit a maximum amount of 12 receipts per week to get actual points. You can submit more that will earn you sweepstake entries but there are typically near 500,000 total entries so your chances of winning are extremely slim. I’m not going to waste my receipts on sweepstake entries that will likely not get me anything, so I’m always having to hold on to multiple receipts from the prior week to submit again on Sunday so that I can get points. Really unnecessary. 12 is an extremely low number of weekly receipts, as other apps allow you to submit almost 3 times that much. So yeah, that would be my number one thing to make ReceiptPal better. Aside from that, it would be nice if they offered a cash option, like Venmo or PayPal for redeeming rewards, but only gift cards are offered. I’m not gonna complain about gift cards but would much prefer cash, as many other receipt apps offer this.

I’m writing this review and giving ReceiptPal of three star. The reason why is because we should be able to redeem any type of receipt.
Also the day that we should have a receipt in by should be for the past 2 to 3 weeks. Starting the day that people redeem their receipts. So say I redeem a receipt today, and the receipt date is for two weeks ago. We should be able to redeem that receipt.
It takes a long time to get four receipts for each card and you only get 100 points for each card. Which in return, this really isn’t worth redeeming my receipts on ReceiptPal. It’s way to much work for not enough money.
Whomever created ReceiptPal needs to fix a few things before they lose out on customers. I think this is a great app I really do. It’s just that I feel I take more time trying to find the right store and the right receipt to be able to redeem my receipts. I feel that this isn’t really worth it, unless they fix ReceiptPal. If they fix ReceiptPal I would invite/share ReceiptPal with everyone I know.

ReceiptPal is easy to use. A couple annoying things is recently I had a message saying the store wasn’t listed. It clearly was and it was a gas receipt. The second thing that is highly annoying is the wait time for connecting email. I get the first time and it’s 30 days but I’ve had to now do it twice. Had to change my password because of someone trying to hack my email so of course now I have to wait 30 days for a second time. Super annoying.

Another update. A receipt was flagged as duplicate even though it wasn’t. The response is that the system looks at merchant, date, time and amount of purchase and if that matches its a duplicate even if it’s actually not. Clearly the barcode numbers are different so obviously they are not the same receipt. I can make two purchases and get separate receipts easily and quickly when I pay for a ferry ride. I do this twice a week as I am using 2 different pre paid cards but I guess only one counts because they can’t differentiate between numbers on a barcode showing it’s not the same receipt.

One = Receipt Pal. Thought it was just me that was having issues redeeming a gift card but it’s everyone else too!!?
Well guys you know what this means don’t you?? When a company is unable to fulfill its obligations that means bye bye company!
Sent many messages, directly thru email and in the apps message system, crickets…. When they’re usually quite responsive. It’s been nearly 2 weeks for me, but what’s weird is, I’m still uploading receipts, and this app unlike the others is the only app that manually reviews receipts and mine are being reviewed, accepted just like normal. They’re just ignoring everyone that’s cashing out. Well it’s clear, someone’s having financial issues and can’t provide us the gift cards we earned.
Saw many stating they saved up, waited till they could cash out for $25 cards but I had a feeling something like this was about to go down, that’s why I cash out when I have the minimum just to make sure I don’t screwed like many did. I’m cashing out on all my other apps now just in case more go down like dominoes.

It’s time for me to stop using ReceiptPal . Having to get 100 points for every 4 receipts. You can tell it’s going to take awhile. And as more brick and mortar stores close and more online places open. Nope being able to use about 25% of my receipts due to them not accepting paypal and most stores run on paypal now. Which is crazy as it’s linked to or bank card. Or spending 300 on concert tickets and they not take that company because they are not big enough. Can’t help who is the only place to sell tickets for big name acts. So it is just taking way to long and giving way to much access to my emails to even get just $5.00. There are other apps to use. I will stick with them. So if you use be mindful most receipts won’t qualify. Even valid receipts get marked invalid. So you have to stay on top. You have to enter them right away as dates of acceptance change and it will take you months unless you buy tons every day.

While I used to love ReceiptPal and how getting paid out was legit, I’ve now had to change my rating because of recent changes to ReceiptPal . After the last update I was signed out of my account, after signing back into the same account I’ve had through ReceiptPal for many years, I soon realized that all my previous points that I had accumulated were no longer there. I signed in using the email that is attached to my account, I’ve waited a few days to see if for some reason it would show up after a few days.. still nothing. I don’t know what else to do because I have access to the account that I’ve been using since downloading, but there is no option or help question that hast to deal with this issue I’m dealing with in particular. I have used and uploaded receipts within the period of time that ReceiptPal says in order to stay active.
Pretty disappointing to be honest.

I have an email account connected. I have more than enough points to redeem a reward. My level one rewards are still locked and I can’t redeem anything. As a side note, this app app seems so dated and unappealing. I think I’m done with it. Ibotta, Shopkicks, and Fetch apps are so much better.

Update: Apparently your email address has to be connected for 30 days before you can unlock rewards. After contacting customer service, they did go ahead and unlock my level one rewards. I’m increasing my rating from 1 to 3 stars because they did address my complaint quickly and satisfactorily. However, having to have an email address for 30 days before you can redeem rewards seems inconvenient and pointless. The other apps I mentioned don’t have that same rule and you can collect as soon as you have enough points or earnings.

I’ve used ReceiptPal for a few years, and it was my favorite receipt app; though I did not do much with it last year (I blame Covid). When I came back to it a few months ago, I noticed that it was very slow. I assumed that the problem was my phone, because it desperately needed to be updated. Once I updated my phone and updated ReceiptPal , it made no difference. I spend more time uploading my receipts to this one app than I do uploading them to all three of my other apps combined. My phone will “fall asleep” twice while waiting for one receipt to load.

I do wish you could collect more than 300 points a week, but that is not a make or break issue for me.

I am about two weeks away from a $10 gift card, and I believe I am going to be done with ReceiptPal after that. I simply don’t want to spend so much time uploading pictures.

ReceiptPal is alright, I’d say moderately average.
There are a lot of downsides to this receipt app; specifically: don’t forget to scan your receipt into ReceiptPal as soon as you have it in hand because they change the date requirements for receipts to be accepted often, so you might forget to scan one, notice 2 days later, open ReceiptPal & find that the latest date of acceptable receipts has changed. So let’s say you got a few receipts May 11 & forgot to scan them so you figure ok let me get these scanned real quick only to find out that ReceiptPal is now only accepting receipts dated May 13th & later - all other receipt reward apps allow a 2 week window - so it’s super easy to miss out.
Also, because of the date requirement, points accumulate kind of slow.

So I got ReceiptPal a while back thinking it’d just be the run-of-the-mill waste of time, but it actually works. My first cash out was for five dollars, didn’t take too terribly long. Just got to have patience and follow the instructions. Obviously, you won’t get rich and it takes some time but overall pretty easy. Just scan receipts weekly and before you know it you can cash out. Honestly my only problem is that you have to wait for new “cards” or opportunities to snap receipts but it’s easy to forget until you get more again. Definitely give it a try if you get receipts often and have some free time.

The receipt idea is a wonderful concept. We turn them in and get points for them and collect goodies in return. When I turn in a receipt I always circle where it is from, the date it was purchased, and the total amount. If I don’t do this, and submit say 2 or 3 receipts in one day, I can always count their will be a problem with one receipts. They can’t see the date, is the top problem or the can’t see the amount. This drives me crazy, when it is circled and right their to find! I wish they would pay more attention before they kick out a receipt.
I also wish they had more items to pick from. It’s takes a while to build up even a 5.00 gift card. Anyway if they could improve on looking at the receipt I will give them a higher star rating.

I really have enjoyed ReceiptPal but now being a member of this app for quite some time now I am finding ReceiptPal very, very frustrating because I had a whole bunch of receipts ready to load in then all of a sudden out of nowhere ReceiptPal wanted me to update ReceiptPal saying that it needed to be updated to iso 13.0 with my iPhone but my phone won’t let me update my phone that high unless there’s update available to update in the settings which there has not been an update available so without it ReceiptPal will no longer allow me to even get in past the update to load new receipts so that really stinks when I’m not allowed to just bypass through the this app Update option and still be allowed to load anymore receipts so I don’t know if I will continue using ReceiptPal if they can’t make it an option to bypass ReceiptPal update

I have been using this for a long time and have been happy with it. Three weeks ago I tried to summit receipts and was told I had to upgrade in order to access ReceiptPal . I was directed to ReceiptPal Store to upgrade but was unable to do so because the iPhone I have is older and the upgrade only supports the latest iPhone. It is impossible for me to use ReceiptPal as it doesn’t allow me to open ReceiptPal without upgrading. I find this totally unacceptable that I am unable to use ReceiptPal because I have an older iPhone and am losing the money I have accumulated to this point. It would seem to me upgrading should be an option not a requirement as some of us are unable to upgrade due to the age of our phones. I would really appreciate it if you would consider letting people continue to log in even though they don’t upgrade ReceiptPal . Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Have had ReceiptPal for several months now and love it so far but, I do have one big complaint. And after reading through the reviews it’s very clear that many others have the same big complaint as I do. Normally I would not be writing my own review with so many others already wrote but, none of the others had gotten an actual viable response. I am hoping to receive a solution because I have been trying for several months now to connect my email with ReceiptPal . I keep plugging my info in, making sure that the toggle switch is green, and also that the email and password is correct. So please let me know what’s going on with it and how come it won’t work and also how to fix this issue. Thank you!

I have tried multiple times to get my rewards. I have 4,250 points I’m picking a rewards $10 retail gift card for 4,000 points which I have more then needed at 4,250. I have all the rewards unlocked and have contacted support once already and they were no help giving me links to information that I already knew and tried and I have done everything correctly! I am on the newest receipt pal version of iOS app and it is giving me a error every time. I’m starting to get a little irritated and feel this is a big scam. Please take care of this problem or I will be forced to contact the BBB with a claim and the internet rights and media with this scam of a site! I have given all my information and gave the correct amount of receipts and I have not received anything except a run around and inconvenience! Thanks for all your help

You are doing a wonderful job with ReceiptPal/program. Please add in a feature that allows me to communicate with you so that if I have a question I can get some assistance. There was a receipt that had the date on it but you didn’t see it about a couple of months ago or so. Being able to text you or email you would have been great but instead that receipt didn’t count. Other than that, I am sharing ReceiptPal with strangers even when I don’t know their personal information or get points for showing them and telling them about ReceiptPal.

I have had ReceiptPal sense it came out. I can no longer access my account I have emailed support at lease 10 times trying to
Figure out what’s going on not on reply so I made a new account and tired getting them to add my old points to my new account cause the new account it totally different then when it first came out and still no reply I have had a several friends down load ReceiptPal cause I thought it was a great was to earn extra money..... and those of you who use ReceiptPal know how long it takes to get 5000 points and to start over for no reason and not get a single reply..... I feel like I wasted the last 6 months saving and taking pictures of my receipts.... I’m very disappointed cause I would use these gift cards to help buy Christmas gifts and would save all year long..... so just a warning to any one who has downloaded ReceiptPal over 3 years ago

I have always been skeptical with apps but my mom talked me into downloading this one and don’t regret it one bit! I’m so excited and look forward to uploading all my receipts at the end of the day and there’s fun little sweep games you can do to enter into the grand sweepstakes. I will definitely continue to use ReceiptPal and everywhere I go I tell people about it when they ask if I want me receipt from my purchase (-: it’s such a easy to use app and I haven’t had one problem using it. A+ to the developer and team and thank you for the fun and gift cards we get to redeem when we hit the mark!!

I would’ve given 5 stars but you only get 25 points regardless of what you buy or how much you spend. So it’s great for all my little drink/snack stops but only 25 points for receipts that are over $100 or more should have some type of bonus.. Also when I redeemed one of my $5 gift cards I didn’t get to spend the entire amount. It doesn’t apply to online shopping as a gift card so that when I check out it tries to charge to entire amount to gift card. So I had to intentionally spend less than $5 & nothing I can buy to redeem the remaining balance. I guess I need to wait on cashing in until I have larger amounts so I can actually use my redemption. Overall I enjoy ReceiptPal

I enjoy your app. I did get customer service when I had a problem. Now you tell us what dates are valid and I like that. What is difficult is that you allow receipts to be scanned late on Sunday, you then verify them late on Monday and you can only send a new receipt or fix the problem on Tuesday or loose the 100 points of that group. You actually have one day to make a correction. I also noticed that cvs gift cards are gone but appreciate any of them offered. Thanks anyways for all. Every penny counts for me!

The idea of ReceiptPal is cool and everything, especially with accepting e-receipts which similar apps I use don’t do. However, it won’t connect my email which makes all of the points useless because you can’t redeem them without connecting your email! I have tried countless times, and even updated ReceiptPal but it gives me the same message every time saying I need to review my entry! I’ve already reviewed my entry, everything checks out and I enter the correct password for my email and it just won’t work. So in conclusion, save yourself the frustration and check out Receipt Hog or Coinout instead, they pay you for pictures of receipts too but won’t give you a hard time!

I love it so far. Fair warning for new users, there is kind of like a probationary period where you hve to wait to redeem, but unless you’re shopping constantly going to like 10 different stores a day, it’ll take you longer to collect points. I’ve been using ReceiptPal since September and I’m finally just now redeeming.

I love that it takes pretty much any receipt from anywhere. My favorite receipt app.❤️

With all due respect, I want to be diplomatic as possible. Not sure if this is a new company, but if you want to be transparent and around a long time, try follow the modeling your company around FetchRewards! They’re transparent, excellent customer service, responds back to you “promptly”, and delivers. I have sent several messages to your support team about receipts being turned down and what can be submitted. Absolutely no response from your support team. Now if things turn around, I will be more than happy to write a new review. If you’re not willing to change, I would close down your site so that your customers don’t have to fight for what you said you would deliver in the first place.

So I’ve been using ReceiptPal for about a half year and I typically run out of cards to fill (3 cards per week with space for 4 receipts each - for a total of 12 receipts per week) by the middle of the week. So I have to wait the rest of the week until Sunday before new cards pop up. Because of this there’s quite a few receipts that they are missing out on. I recently asked support if they planned on increasing the card count for e holidays and the answer was no and that only do three cards a week and that’s it. Hmm. Seems they’d want ALL of my receipts, especially during the biggest shopping season of the year.

ReceiptPal is good but what really is annoying is that when I tried connecting my yahoo email account, it keeps telling me the credentials are invalid try again later. Made me end up changing my yahoo password unnecessarily and when I tried again still doesn’t work. Waited a few days to see if maybe the connection to the yahoo servers needed to update first, tried again, failure. So not only did I miss the 500 points bonus cause of this, but I also can’t even have my e-receipts added. Which kinda defeats its convenience claim

I love how easy it is to scan in receipts, and that most receipts count. I do however hate the time frame for getting them in. It’s not simple, and receipts have to be in by a certain day rather than just allowing the receipt to be so many days old. Sometimes it’s hard to remember to get a receipt scanned in right away. It would be nice if you had 14 days from the date of the receipt rather than having to get it in by the Tuesday after the purchase or whatever it is.

ReceiptPal was great until the recent update. Ever since they updated their app it’s slow and my phone freezes. There’s some type of piñata bonus that you click on, so I do - I don’t get a bonus, only a frozen phone.

Also I have enough points to redeem a $25 dollar gift card, but I have to wait 24 “email days” (it counts down everyday)... what the heck does that even mean and why do I have to wait if I earned the points?

It would be a better app if they went back to the previous version. Highly contemplating deleting ReceiptPal .

It is ridiculous that it is a requirement that ReceiptPal has access to our email prior to being able to redeem points for rewards. I didn’t realize this until after I had spent a lot of time uploading many receipts. Then I got enough points to redeem and reluctantly gave access to my email only to discover that they require you wait 30 days after giving access to get your reward. Is this so they have time to rummage through my private emails? This is all nonsense. None of the other receipt apps that I use require that they be able to access and manipulate my email. Deleted. Such a waste of time.