At a glance
Neat is a long-running small-business product for scanning, storing and organizing receipts and financial documents, with simple bookkeeping on top. It keeps its scope modest, and its price reflects that.
Best for
Businesses where receipts pile up faster than anyone files them, and where staff pay with company cards.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Owner-run businesses that want a tidy document archive and simple bookkeeping at a low 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.
Scanning and storing documents
Sweeping receipts out of your mailbox
Digital receipts issued by the merchant
Matching documents to card transactions
Expense policy and approvals
Corporate cards
How simple it is for a one-person business
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
If one person does all the spending, the case for switching is weak. It gets strong once a team spends.
Email receipt capture takes care of most manual uploading right away.
Once card transactions are visible, matching happens on its own.
Take your existing documents with you, then import and code the ones you need.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside Neat.
Shoeboxed digitizes the paper you've already collected. Smartbills gets receipts from the stores that send them. Less paper is printed.
Read the comparisonWellyBox finds receipts in your email. Smartbills does that too, and also captures receipts for purchases you pay for by card in person.
Read the comparisonHubdoc moves documents into Xero and stops there. Smartbills adds digital receipts, expense policy, cards and payables around those documents.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Connect Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail or IMAP. Automatically collect receipts and invoices from the folders you choose, including Archive and Spam.
Digital receipt software that turns every sale at your POS into an itemized electronic receipt, hosted online and delivered by app, SMS, email or API.
A tax receipt organizer that sorts medical, childcare, donation and tuition receipts by category as they come in and keeps a running total all year.
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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.
