Best iPhone app for expense receipts?

[robpow]

I use Evernote for this, it's great because it OCRs the image so you can search for texts on the receipt.

Matt

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

I use Evernote for this, it's great because it OCRs the image so you can search for texts on the receipt.

Matt

I also use Evernote although I'm not really convinced it's the best tool for the job. It does OCR if you have a premium account but so does the software that came with my portable scanner.

[robpow]

Hmm, odd. I haven't paid a penny for it and mine does OCR.

[PerfectStorm]

I'm surprised HMRC allow scanned receipts.
Scanned Receipts are easy to fake these days

That's actually quite a serious point... there must be people making up all sorts of bollocks expenses!

Any on this forum?

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

That's actually quite a serious point... there must be people making up all sorts of bollocks expenses!

Are scanned expenses that much easier to fake than hard copies? Receipt printers aren't expensive.

[PerfectStorm]

Businessman charged £75 for three small bottles of water in London hotel - Business News - Business - The Independent

Try claiming that!

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Businessman charged £75 for three small bottles of water in London hotel - Business News - Business - The Independent

Try claiming that!

Business entertaining, not claimable anyway

[Contreras]

Business entertaining, not claimable anyway

Oh yes it is.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Oh yes it is.

Ok, anything is claimable, of course.

What I did mean was not allowable for tax relief. Obviously.

[pjclarke]

To answer my own question, I have downloaded something called Expensify, which seems to be the answer. Enter the amount date, category etc and take a pic of the receipt. End of the month, generate a report, transfer to SJD sheet and archive. Paperless, once you have the scan. I'll give it a trial and report back, if anyone's interested ....

Looked also at Concur, which turns out to be for corporates, and requires opening a paid account, Shoebox, which describes itself as free but needs a subscription after the free trial expires and a couple others that were too rigid (e.g. no way to change the currency from $).