National Spending Journal – By Shoeboxed

To reduce paper clutter and unnecessary postage costs, Shoeboxed is now allowing our customers to opt out of getting their receipts and business cards mailed back to them. By default, we return receipts and business cards for our Mail-In Classic and Business members. Since we provide scanned copies of the receipts and  business cards, many [...]

The Internal Revenue Service today reminded individual and business taxpayers that many energy-saving steps taken this year may result in bigger tax savings next year.
The recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) of 2009 contained a number of either new or expanded tax benefits on expenditures to reduce energy use or create new energy sources.
The [...]

Back in October, when Congress passed the massive $700 billion bailout for the banking industry, many lawmakers were at first uncertain about passing the legislation. Because the bailout was seen as so necessary by many, billions in pork were added to the bill, mostly in the form of tax breaks.
A large amount of these tax [...]

With 11 months of sales figures in the books for 2008, hybrid cars sales may be leveling off. Despite the major increase in gas prices during the summer and fall of 2008, only 268,042 hybrids have been sold through November, compared to the 324,318 sold in all of 2007, according to the Electric Drive Transportation [...]

I’ve heard this myth out there. So scary, this myth. I thought I might warn you, prepare you, just in case. Ready? I couldn’t believe it either: Many people are forced to tape receipts to paper.
Whether for bookkeeping, archiving, or expense reports, everyday many do-gooding Americans are told that scotch-taping their receipts to yet another [...]

Have you noticed that receipts are getting longer and longer these days? It seems that retailers are willing to print anything on a receipt in addition to actually listing the things you bought and how much they cost. Coupons, promotions, surveys, product recommendations, and just plain empty space make receipts exceptionally long sometimes.
The Charlotte Observer [...]

Just wanted to give you a quick update on how our Earth Day celebrations at Shoeboxed went. Obviously, we’re very interested in helping the environment, and thus, encouraging people to recycle their receipts was a no-brainer. As you may remember, we asked people to mail in their receipts so they could be shredded and taken [...]

The other day, we were featured in both local papers here in Durham about our Earth Day promotion, and I just wanted to show you all the link from one of them. Sue Stock from the News and Observer wrote about us here. The other article in the Herald Sun requires a subscription online, but [...]

Shoeboxed is excited to announce its official Earth Day initiative. As you all know, we strive to be a green company, and have made tremendous efforts in the past few weeks in and out of the office to build on our already strong commitment to earth-friendliness.
Our latest development is a receipt recycling drive [...]

Shoeboxed is dedicated to environmental protection and sustainability. You might wonder where we’re coming from on this one: I mean, we do organize receipts, which are made of paper, which comes from trees. Without the destruction of trees, we wouldn’t exist, right? WRONG!

We recognize that individual action needs to be taken in order to develop [...]

Shoeboxed is going green! If you aren’t convinced yet, check out my video. Being environmentally-conscious is a high priority for the entire team. We’ve made a lot of changes to our work environment and our lifestyles as we embark on our long mission to be a sustainable start-up company. Here are some of the [...]

Believe it or not, we don’t like receipts very much. We think they’re annoying, a waste, and difficult to keep track of. Our greatest motivation in developing Shoeboxed is to make it easier for people to organize and manage receipts, because after all, they contain lots of information worth keeping around.
I came across a website [...]

At the beginning of my freshmen year at Duke, I started working for The Chronicle, the daily student newspaper. I worked there for three years, and even though I’m gone, my addiction to staying on top of the news remains. I just can’t kick the habit.
So, on one of my daily sweeps through GoogleNews, I [...]

What’s your ecological footprint? Different businesses have been asking themselves that question in order to better implement solutions to rising environmental issues. Here at Shoeboxed, we’ve been considering the environmental issues since day one. This environmental concern was huge motivation for Shoeboxed to launch its receipt-upload feature as early as [...]