At a glance
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.
Best for
Businesses that want receipts approved and synced to their books, with every item and tax on the record.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Contractors and individuals who want receipts stored safely and a categorized spreadsheet at tax time.
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
Receipts found in your email
Receipts matched to bank and card charges
Team approvals and expense policy
Accounting sync
Job estimates for contractors
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
Export your SimplyWise receipts as PDF or Excel and keep them for past tax years.
Smartbills reads the folders you pick and pulls out each receipt, so emailed ones arrive on their own.
Everyone scans into the same business, and you approve what they spent.
Link your accounting software, and approved expenses sync with the receipt attached.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside SimplyWise.
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.
Read the comparisonSmart 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 comparisonEverlance 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.
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.
Find the receipt for the thing you're returning by searching for it, with the return deadline and warranty countdown already attached.
Get started
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.
