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Foreceipt alternatives

Foreceipt is a receipt scanner and expense tracker for iPhone, Android and the web. You photograph receipts or forward them by email, it sorts them into US or Canadian tax categories, imports bank statements as PDF or CSV, and exports PDF and Excel reports. Its business plan connects to QuickBooks.

Why people look

Why teams look for a Foreceipt alternative

The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.

Online orders only get logged when someone remembers to forward the email.

Email receipt capture reads the mailbox you connect, Spam and Archive included, and pulls out every receipt without a forward.

The report gives my accountant totals, and they still ask what was on each receipt.

Smartbills reads each item and each tax line, so the expense carries the detail the books need.

Receipts get approved over text messages before anyone enters them.

Expenses go through your policy and an approval step in the app, then sync to QuickBooks Online or Xero with the receipt attached.

The shortlist

6 alternatives to Foreceipt

The products teams shortlist against Foreceipt, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.

  1. Smart Receipts

    Smart Receipts turns photographed receipts into PDF and CSV expense reports. Smartbills reads them too, finds the ones in your email and syncs everything to your books.

    Best forIndividuals, field crews and small teams who mostly need receipts turned into a PDF or CSV expense report.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  2. SparkReceipt

    SparkReceipt is a receipt and bookkeeping app for freelancers. Smartbills covers the same capture and adds receipts from stores, bills from supplier portals, approvals and payments.

    Best forFreelancers and sole proprietors, especially in the US, who want receipts, bank matching and tax-time reports in one inexpensive app.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  3. SimplyWise

    SimplyWise scans and stores receipts for tax season. Smartbills reads each item and tax, routes approvals and syncs expenses to your accounting software.

    Best forContractors and individuals who want receipts stored safely and a categorized spreadsheet at tax time.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  4. Shoeboxed

    Shoeboxed digitizes the paper you've already collected. Smartbills gets receipts from the stores that send them. Less paper is printed.

    Best forBusinesses sitting on a physical archive, or whose purchases still come with paper receipts.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  5. Dext

    Dext collects the receipts and invoices your accounting practice is sent. Smartbills gets the receipt from the merchant at the moment you pay.

    Best forAccounting practices collecting documents from many clients at once, who need client reminders and publishing built in.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  6. Hubdoc

    Hubdoc moves documents into Xero and stops there. Smartbills adds digital receipts, expense policy, cards and payables around those documents.

    Best forXero users whose only need is getting bills and receipts into Xero at no extra cost.

    Compare it with Smartbills

Disclosure

And Smartbills, which is ours

Slipping our own product into a roundup without saying so is exactly what makes these pages worthless, so to be clear, this one is ours.

Smartbills

Best for: Businesses that want receipts read line by line, approved and synced to their accounting software.

Smartbills vs Foreceipt

How this list was put together

These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Foreceipt, drawn from what prospects actually shortlist against it and from the rest of its category. The order is editorial rather than a ranking, because we don't run benchmarks on products we don't operate, and a scored table written by a vendor about its competitors isn't evidence. Each entry links to a full comparison with claims specific enough to check.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

Yes. Each expense gets a category you can map to your chart of accounts, and the taxes on the receipt are kept as separate lines.

It imports bank statements from a PDF or CSV file, and its paid plans cost little for a single user who only needs a log and a report.

If you need a receipt log and a report at tax time, Foreceipt covers it. Smartbills fits once receipts have to be approved, coded and synced to your accounting software.

Get started

Comparing Foreceipt with something else?

Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions. The number that settles it is the share of transactions that ended up with an itemized document attached, and you can measure that in one cycle.

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