At a glance
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.
Best for
Businesses that want receipts read line by line, approved and synced to their accounting software.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Self-employed people who want a simple receipt log and a tax-time report at a low monthly price.
Where it's stronger
Every comparison on this site names what the other product does better. If we couldn't think of anything, we didn't publish the page.
Side by side
These are structural differences, not plan checkboxes. Capabilities change, so check the vendor's own documentation before deciding on any single row.
What gets read from the photo
Emailed receipts
Itemized receipts sent by the store
Approvals and expense policy
Bank statements imported as PDF or CSV
Accounting sync
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
Photograph receipts in the Smartbills app, one at a time or several from your camera roll.
Stop forwarding. Smartbills reads the folders you pick and finds the receipts in them.
Link QuickBooks Online or Xero, and approved expenses arrive with the receipt attached.
Keep your Foreceipt reports for past years. New receipts start in Smartbills.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside Foreceipt.
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.
Read the comparisonSparkReceipt 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.
Read the comparisonSimplyWise scans and stores receipts for tax season. Smartbills reads each item and tax, routes approvals and syncs expenses to your accounting software.
Read the comparisonShoeboxed digitizes the paper you've already collected. Smartbills gets receipts from the stores that send them. Less paper is printed.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Capture receipts with your iPhone or Android. Smartbills extracts merchant details, dates, line items and taxes.
Connect Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail or IMAP. Automatically collect receipts and invoices from the folders you choose, including Archive and Spam.
Expense report software that attaches the receipts for you, works out mileage, routes the approval and shows each employee when they'll be paid back.
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Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions, and we'll show you the capture rate on both sides instead of a slide deck.
