OneReceipt App for iPhone

***Update!  Since OneReceipt is no longer active, I have been on the hunt for an alternative.  I have not found anything like it that I liked enough to use it but for you Amex cardholders, Amex now has the option (still in BETA form) to add an image of your receipt to a transaction on your account!  This is working well for us at the moment as 95% of our purchases are made on our Amex card.  I will continue to update as I find alternatives!**



Hi All!!
This week we are taking a look at the receipt management app that I am currently using which is OneReceipt.

***Sadly, OneReceipt will be shut down effective 8/24/16***

Overall, this app is missing a few features that I would like but at the end of the day, it does what I need it to and it's free so.

OneReceipt is a website with an app where you can scan in your receipts rather than keeping your paper receipts.  Many retailers will now let you return items with an image of your receipt rather than the original.  Most now have barcodes on the receipts that they scan to do the return so as long as you have a clear image of the receipt with the barcode, they should accept it.  Check with the retailer before you throw out your originals if you know you will need to return something.

Basically, you open the app, snap photos of your receipt, organize them then OneReceipt will process the images into a searchable entry.



Once they are processed, they show on the main screen by date like this.



Each receipt is broken down by item and price like this.





Once you upload your photos of the receipt, you get a few different ways/options to organize it.  You can organize by Category and Tags as well as add notes.  Categories have options like Deal Site, Office Supplies, Pets, Travel, etc.  Tags can be personalized however you want them.  I have one set as household and the other as business.




You can go back later and sort by tags and categories or even stores.  You can also search by item (like shampoo or Dove) but I have found a problem with this.  The data entry team that types out the items on the receipt, doesn't type them all the way out.  For example, instead of Kroger Whipping Cream, they typed Kro Whpping Cream.  So if I tried to search Whipping Cream, nothing would come up.  Thats been annoying.  I often have to go to the image of the receipt to find the item that I am looking for.

The website is definitely easier to use when it comes to organizing the receipts but the app makes it much easier to upload them.  You do get an email address associated with your account that you can email receipts to to upload them.  You can also link your regular email addresses and e receipts will be automatically uploaded.

Overall, its a good way to track your spending and to organize your receipts.  I used to keep all my paper receipts in a folio file but it took me forever to find the one I was looking for and they took up way too much space.  It took a while but I got all of them uploaded into the app and was able to shred all the paper ones.  I do really wish there was a better way to view the receipt image.  I personally would rather see the images rather than a typed out break down of all of the purchases on the receipt but that's just me.  

Overall, if you need a good app to organize your receipts, this one is one that I would recommend for just basic everyday use but if you are constantly doing a lot of returns or needing to find a specific receipt for specific items, this one falls a little short.  I don't do a ton of returns and I don't need to run any specific expense reports or anything like that so this one works well for me at this point.

Until next time!!