Alternatives
Tailride alternatives
Tailride monitors Gmail, Outlook and IMAP inboxes for invoices, collects them from web portals through a browser extension or a desktop app, and takes paper receipts by mobile scan or a WhatsApp or Telegram bot. It matches bank statements to invoices and exports to a long list of accounting tools, including DATEV, sevDesk, Lexware Office and Holded.
Why people look
Why teams look for a Tailride alternative
The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.
The invoices are collected, but nobody approved them and nothing tells us they're paid.
In Smartbills a collected bill goes through your approval rules and can be paid from the same record, so collection, approval and payment don't live in three tools.
Our receipts from in-store card purchases never show up in any inbox.
Stores connected to Smartbills send the itemized receipt when you pay, and it's matched to the card purchase. The ones that don't are photographed in the app.
Québec receipts come in with one tax total, and the GST and QST have to be split by hand.
Smartbills reads each tax line on its own, with the registration numbers printed on the receipt, which is what an input tax credit claim needs.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to Tailride
The products teams shortlist against Tailride, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
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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 - 02
Receiptor AI
For firms and businesses that want receipts found automatically, deciding between scanning inboxes and getting the receipt from the merchant.
Best forFreelancers, businesses and firms whose receipts mostly arrive by email and who want years of inbox history pulled in.
Compare it with Smartbills - 03
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 - 04
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 - 05
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 - 06
Veryfi
Veryfi sells an extraction API to build a receipt workflow on. Smartbills is that workflow, already built.
Best forEngineering teams building their own expense feature who need extraction delivered as a service.
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: Canadian and US businesses that want receipts from stores, email and portals in one place, with approvals, cards and bill payments on the same record.
Smartbills vs TailrideHow this list was put together
These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Tailride, 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.
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Comparing Tailride 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.