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Smart Receipts alternatives

Smart Receipts is a receipt scanner and expense report app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android and the web. It reads the merchant, date, total and tax from a photo on paid plans, takes forwarded email receipts, logs mileage, and produces expense reports as PDF or CSV. A higher plan imports bank transactions in the US and Canada.

Why people look

Why teams look for a Smart Receipts alternative

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

Every month someone exports a PDF report, emails it, and the bookkeeper types it in again.

Smartbills syncs approved expenses to QuickBooks Online or Xero with the receipt attached, so there's no report file to re-key.

The app reads the total, but we need the items and each tax for the books.

Smartbills reads each item and each tax line, including GST, HST, QST and PST separately, with the registration numbers.

Online orders and software bills never get forwarded, so they never make the report.

Email receipt capture checks the mailbox itself, including Spam and Archive, instead of waiting for someone to forward each one.

The shortlist

6 alternatives to Smart Receipts

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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. WellyBox

    WellyBox finds receipts in your email. Smartbills does that too, and also captures receipts for purchases you pay for by card in person.

    Best forSole proprietors who buy almost everything online and want years of email history pulled in at once.

    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, approved and synced to QuickBooks or Xero, not only collected into a report.

Smartbills vs Smart Receipts

How this list was put together

These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Smart Receipts, 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. Receipts go into expense reports for reimbursement, with approvals before payment. The difference is that approved expenses also sync to your accounting software instead of ending as a file.

It runs on Apple Watch and iPad, and it has a free tier for entering receipts by hand.

If the goal is a PDF report each month, Smart Receipts is enough. Smartbills fits once the receipts need approving, coding and syncing to your books.

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Comparing Smart Receipts 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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