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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:00:18 +0000

[...] Ali pointed me toward his review of Shoeboxed, a way to organize receipts. That tip alone has set my mind whirring about possibilities because [...]

By: Imran Ali

Imran Ali — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:30:30 +0000

@Taylor I’m British too – that’s why it’s so disturbing ;)

By: Taylor Mingos

Taylor Mingos — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:50:48 +0000

Hey all,

Just wanted to drop in and answer the IRS question.

@Tarique: The IRS has been accepting digital receipts since at least 1997 under certain conditions, all of which are met by the Shoeboxed organizational system.

The conditions are things like the fact that your receipts must be legible and that they must be submitted to the IRS within the accepted time frame typical for all receipts.

Read more from the IRS. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-irbs/irb97-13.pdf

Also, one of our value adds over a self-tagging service like Flickr is that we do the scanning, tagging and indexing for you as part of Receipt Mail-In.

@Imran Regarding “Shoelove”, it sounds a lot less odd when Nick says it in person with his British accent… :)

Taylor

By: Tarique Naseem

Tarique Naseem — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:07:24 +0000

Great idea. It’s something I’ve been thinking about over the last couple of weeks. I would love to get rid of the pile of receipts that gather awaiting my tax return!

However, I wonder if the tax man would accept an electronic version of a paper receipt?

I’ve actually been thinking of scanning in most of my documents actually, to create some space in my bulging filing cabinet.

Personally, my needs are simple. I would just opt for scanning the docs and storing them in a private flickr set and use it’s tagging features to search for the relevant docs. I digress… :)

But, a useful service for those who need it.

By: Imran Ali

Imran Ali — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:47:54 +0000

@Marc, @Nick glad you guys have been able to connect…though I’m a little hesitant about recieving some ‘Shoelove’ :$

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:21:46 +0000

@Marc — I was just figuring out how best to reach you. You can reach me at nick at team dot shoeboxed dot com.

@Imran — thanks for a great article. I’ll make sure some Shoelove gets sent your way…

By: Marc Hedlund

Marc Hedlund — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:34:48 +0000

Cool. I’ll drop them a line. Thanks, Imran.

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:28:37 +0000

Hi Jim,

acutally Shoeboxed let’s you exactly do that. I’m using their free service and whenever I get an electronic receipt, it just gets forwarded to my Shoeboxed email address. Their algorithms take it from there and the receipt gets entered automatically into my database…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:18:13 +0000

I’ve been a Shoeboxed client for a few months now. The service works great. I don’t use it for any automated exports to accounting systems but I do use it for getting my receipts reimbursed by my company after business trips. It’s great for that.

By: Jim Mortleman

Jim Mortleman — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:12:56 +0000

Even more useful would be a service that allowed you to easily ‘drop in’ (via desktop/web widget perhaps?) electronic recipts (whether received via email or cut-n-pasted from webpage, etc) as well as scanned-in paper receipts (duly converted into machine-readable format). Ideally, it would then remove any duplicates, import into a databse and let you slice, dice, view and export the information in myriad ways.

By: Shoeboxed on Web Worker Daily | Receipt Revolution! The Adventures of the Shoeboxed Team! Oh, and sometimes features announcements.

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:07:45 +0000

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By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:56:28 +0000

Imran, nice find! This seems like an invaluable service. I wonder if it integrates with any of my tax software.

Any shoeboxed users out there?