At a glance
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.
Best for
Businesses that want receipts read, approved and synced to QuickBooks or Xero, not only collected into a report.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Individuals, field crews and small teams who mostly need receipts turned into a PDF or CSV expense report.
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.
Line-item detail without reading an image
Sweeping receipts out of your mailbox
Digital receipts issued by the merchant
Expense policy and approvals
Syncing to your accounting system
Mileage tracking
Apps for Apple Watch and iPad
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 as a batch from your camera roll.
Stop forwarding. Email receipt capture reads the mailbox on a schedule.
Connect QuickBooks Online or Xero, and approved expenses go straight to the books.
Expense reports are still there for reimbursement, built from the same receipts.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside Smart Receipts.
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.
Read the comparisonForeceipt 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 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.
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.
Connect Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail or IMAP. Automatically collect receipts and invoices from the folders you choose, including Archive and Spam.
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.
