National Spending Journal – By Shoeboxed

On the go? Now you can take Shoeboxed with you!

We’re excited to announce the launch of Shoeboxed Mobile (Beta), which will allow you to keep track of your receipts and business cards as you get them. With Shoeboxed Mobile, you can send in photos of your receipts and business cards to a special email address, [...]

So what are you doing sitting at your computer? You need to go out and collect receipts on one of the busiest shopping days of the year! Go on, it’s Black Friday – Get out there!

I wanted to jump in quickly again here to mention that Lifehacker wrote about us this morning. Read more at http://lifehacker.com/5061076/shoeboxed-now-auto+tags-your-submitted-receipts
We were on Lifehacker about a year ago, and hopefully more people will come now and see our Receipt Mail-In program, which we did not offer when the previous post was written. Receipt Mail-In, after [...]

FEATURE UPDATE: In addition to our fancy new homepage, Shoeboxed has added a new feature that automatically categorizes your receipts into common tax categories. Based on a sophisticated algorithm that takes into account the receipt information, your receipts will be placed in default categories that are now in every Shoeboxed account.
Based on common tax categories, [...]

With Gmail, it is easy to set up filters that will automatically forward certain email messages to another address based on rules that you set. This can be helpful for use with Shoeboxed, as you can train your Gmail account to forward email receipts to Shoeboxed, where they can be better organized into categories, generate [...]

If you’re a Receipt Mail-In User, you’ve probably noticed the red cards that we have been placing in the envelopes that we send to you. I wanted to take a moment on the blog to explain what those are and how you can earn a very significant amount of credit on your Shoeboxed account.
The red [...]

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 [...]

Another feature requested by users is now available on Shoeboxed! Because there are many features on Shoeboxed, and many powerful tools for organizing your scanned and emailed receipts, it’s easy to forget each one.
To help explain everything a little better, head on over to our new demo video.
https://www.shoeboxed.com/demo-video.htm
Send this link along to your friends to [...]

As we all know, taxes are not once-a-year activity. In order to keep tabs on all your tax documents, including receipts and bank statements, you have keep them organized on an ongoing basis throughout the year.
This doesn’t sound very fun, right? I’m sure some of you are wondering how this would even be possible. Won’t [...]

We were featured in the Washington Post on Friday, and that post was circulated in a bunch of different places, one of which was the daily news briefing of the American Society of Interior Designers.
When that went out to a few thousand people, we got a bunch of phone calls from ASID members extremely interested [...]

If you own a small or home business, you know how hard it can be to make your business into a success and maintain it over the long haul. One of the most frustrating parts of running your own business is the administrative paper work that you have to do.
Well, we’ve always known that Shoeboxed [...]

There are a fair number of websites out there that want to let you know how you can organize your paper. A lot of times, I can’t help but chuckle a little bit. They’ll give you great ways to set up folders and labels and a schedule whereby you’ll spend hours and hours a month [...]

I found a great article this morning about Tax Day, and I wanted to share it with you, if only because it has one of the most on-target quotes ever recorded about receipts in the mainstream media.
Anyway, Mark Sanders wrote this story in on TradingMarkets.com for today to talk about the trend of procrastinators in [...]

David Allen is a widely popular author who preaches the concept of GTD, or Getting Things Done. He is a thought leader in the area of personal productivity, and I’ve been meaning to mention him and his suggestions on the blog for awhile now. For a limited time, we are offering to send you a [...]

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 [...]