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SimplyWise alternatives

SimplyWise is a receipt scanner app from SimplyWise, Inc. It reads the store, date, tip, sales tax and total from a photo, imports receipts from Gmail, Outlook, Amazon, Walmart and PayPal, matches them to your bank or card, and exports PDF, JPEG or Excel files. Its site now speaks mostly to contractors, with estimates and mileage beside receipts.

Why people look

Why teams look for a SimplyWise alternative

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

At tax time I hand my accountant a spreadsheet, and they type it all in again.

Smartbills syncs each approved expense to QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage Intacct, FreshBooks or NetSuite with the receipt attached.

The scan gives me a total and the sales tax, but not what I bought.

Every item is read, along with each tax line, so a mixed purchase can be split across categories.

My crew buys materials too, and their receipts live on their own phones.

Each person on the team scans into the same business, and their expenses go through one approval step.

The shortlist

6 alternatives to SimplyWise

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

  1. Foreceipt

    Foreceipt scans receipts and builds PDF or Excel reports for tax time. Smartbills reads every item and tax, checks your mailbox itself and syncs to your books.

    Best forSelf-employed people who want a simple receipt log and a tax-time report at a low monthly price.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Everlance

    Everlance logs drives automatically and finds deductions in your bank feed. Smartbills starts from the receipt, reads every item and tax, and syncs to your books.

    Best forDrivers, gig workers and field teams whose biggest deduction or reimbursement is mileage.

    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 approved and synced to their books, with every item and tax on the record.

Smartbills vs SimplyWise

How this list was put together

These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as SimplyWise, 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. The Smartbills wallet counts down return windows and warranties from the purchase date, and you can search receipts by the item you bought.

It writes job estimates for contractors, and it collects receipts from Amazon, Walmart and PayPal accounts directly.

A sync, in most cases. The expense, its category, its taxes and the receipt image arrive in the books together, and nobody types them in a second time.

Get started

Comparing SimplyWise 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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