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 piece of paper is the best way to get their expenses organized.

Fortunately, for each and every one of you that has been forced into such a situation, who has sat there with scotch tape in one hand and papers in the other wondering what on earth, who has wasted so much tape and so much paper.

To you we say, “Welcome.” Shoeboxed is here. Step away from the tape and put down the paper.

With Shoeboxed, you can send you receipts as loose pieces of paper (actually that’s how we want them) in an envelope. No tape or paper backing needed. Your receipts will be scanned and entered in to your online account, so you can sort them in a way that makes sense. There’s no need to have some elaborate filing system anymore. We’ll make your receipts sortable for you, without the tape.

Oh don’t we all hate the dreaded expense report? All those business receipts burning a hole in your wallet, just waiting to be turned into your  accountant or controller so you can get reimbursed for your business expenses. The dry cleaning receipt, the dinner receipt, the office supplies receipt. All of them need to be turned in, but they’re hard to find (or they’re missing), they’re torn, or they’re faded.

We’ve all been there: having to eat an expense that you should be reimbursed for just because you didn’t turn in all your receipts. Twenty bucks here and there isn’t the end of the whole. It’s not breaking the bank necessarily, but it doesn’t have to happen. You can say goodbye to that inconvenience.

The personal budget forms, also known as expense reports, that you turn into your business can be a breeze with Shoeboxed. Instead of keeping your receipts in different places and losing them, you can stick them straight into a Receipt Mail-In envelope, mail them from anywhere for free to the Shoeboxed headquarters, and never worry about them again.

In a couple of days, your receipts will be online for you to view, organize, and print. You can create expense reports in one click, and you’ll even get the originals back under most plans.

Your business receipts: we’ve got them covered.

Did you know that commercial airlines will reimburse you for lost luggage? In many cases, they’ll need you to show them receipts for what you had in the bag. How are you going to have all those random receipts handy for such a situation? Receipt Mail-In obviously.

It seems that anyone who’s flown on a commercial airline has a lost luggage horror story. I’ve had a couple of problems with my luggage not meeting me here when I land in Raleigh-Durham, but for the most part I think I’ve been pretty lucky. I’ve spent four out of the last five summers abroad, and I’ve never lost a bag on one of those trips.

If I were to lose my bag now though, I’d be able to get reimbursed for anything that was in the bag, just by showing my receipts to the airline. I have them all archived and organized on Shoeboxed through our scanning service, Receipt Mail-In.

Linda Burbank wrote a really helpful column in USA Today about this issue, and offers up some good info:

Airlines provide partial reimbursement for interim expenses when luggage is delayed or lost. Usually, reimbursement is capped, often at about $25 a day. United reimburses up to 50% of costs for replacement clothing and toiletries, provided passengers submit receipts. But no airline pays damages based on the inconvenience of not having your luggage.

United reviewed Gavend’s claim and agreed to make an exception to its policy. It sent her a check for $874, the amount for which the family still had receipts.

You never know when those receipts are going to come in handy. Having a complete scanned archive of your receipts is the only way to avoid these kinds of situations.

If you’ve been using Shoeboxed for awhile, it can be easy to forget that Shoeboxed isn’t just about scanning receipts. There’s a lot to Shoeboxed, and I’d like to point out some of my favorite things about the site over the next couple of days on the blog.

So, without further adieu:

Using Shoeboxed will revolutionize how you track expenses. Here’s some of the many wonderful things you can do with your new account:

1. Build a comprehensive view of your spending habits when you add images of your receipts, use your new account, [username]@shoeboxed.com, to shop, or even mail in your receipts and have us scan them
2. Use a flexible new filing system of shoeboxes to budget and see how you are spending your money
3. Prepare your expense reports, taxes, and insurance claims faster and more easily
4. Share Shoeboxed receipts when you invite friends and coworkers to win a free t-shirt

If you’re just getting to know Shoeboxed, poke around our site for awhile. If you’re a veteran, treat this as just a reminder of all the great features we have. Sometimes its hard to remember they’re all there!

Well, I must say, Texas has been mighty nice to Shoeboxed in the past few months. Yet another large media organization covered us today. KXAN, an Austin NBC affiliate, gave a rundown of Shoeboxed’s features on their morning show today, explaining some of the ways that Shoeboxed can simplify your life, especially in this tax season that we all love so much.

They tell me that they are going to put the segment on YouTube soon, and when they do, we’ll link it here. In the meantime, they did write up a blog entry about us, especially focusing on how much scanning receipts can be a pain for business travelers, and how Shoeboxed can help.

When I’m on business trips, shoeboxed is going to be great for me in terms of keeping together the receipts I need for my expense report. And in terms of tax season, having all my receipts in one place will make things far more efficient. I’ll finally get all my receipts in order and have them online for me to access from anywhere and at anytime!

Read the whole article here.

They got one thing wrong: here’s actually how we make money (we DON’T charge for Quicken export).

Thanks to Charlie Ray and the rest of the people that made this happen.

The other day, I was talking with one my old friends who graduated a couple of years ahead of me in college. He’s a business consultant now, and is traveling almost every day of the week.

When he’s out on the road, he has to keep track of his receipts in order to get reimbursed by his company. He said that organizing his receipts was so annoying that he finally gave in and bought a portable scanner to bring with him on his business trips. The problem with the scanner, though, was that it was hard to use and extremely time consuming. The last thing he wanted to do after a hard day of work on the road was sit in his hotel and scan receipts.

So obviously I started telling him about Shoeboxed Receipt Mail-In. This innovative new program is perfect for business travelers and anyone else that has to organize their receipts but hates the prospect of getting down and dirty with their scanner. With Mail-In, we’ll scan your receipts for you and upload them into your secure Shoeboxed account. If you can stuff an envelope, you can have your receipts organized for your expense reports, taxes, and everyday purchase tracking. Now he can just drop an envelope into the mail after each trip, and he’s good to go.

There has never been a better way. Try it out today!

Filling out expense reports can be a costly hassle. Business travelers have to track and convert expenses to get reimbursed. There are many methods of dealing with the annoyance we all call expense reports: costly executive assistants, time-consuming Excel expense log-sheets, expensive scanners, and, of course, Shoeboxed Receipt Mail-In. But only one of these options is both cheap and easy.

For a year, Shoeboxed will scan your receipts for $19.95/month, leaving you with basically no work to do. To see how much you’ll save, Shoeboxed provides a Receipt Mail-In savings calculator. It lets you value your time per hour, specify how many receipts you get per month, and how much you might spend on a receipt scanner. It calculates how much time and money you save with Shoeboxed Receipt Mail-In.

One great thing about Mail-In is that it’s so simple. Put receipts in the envelope, seal, and send. You will have easy-to-use access to all of your expenditures in your Shoeboxed account. When expense report time comes around, you will be prepared to deal with it!

Who said expense reports couldn’t be cheap and easy?

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