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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 [...]

FreshBooks and Shoeboxed today announced a partnership to help small and home-based businesses transform piles of paper receipts into professional-looking invoices for their clients. Often, small businesses make purchases for their clients and expect to be reimbursed. Starting today, they can collect the receipts from those purchases, mail them to Shoeboxed to be scanned and [...]

Shoeboxed, the leading online service for organizing receipts, released a new feature today allowing users to download their receipt information into a format that they can import into Quickbooks, a popular accounting software program for small businesses.
Since many small businesses use Shoeboxed to organize their receipts, this move makes a lot of sense.
Follow these easy [...]

Keeping and organizing receipts is one of those things that every small business must do but doesn’t want to. But we tell ourselves that sitting down to scan receipts for hours on end or entering data into an endless spreadsheet is what we need to do in order to make taxes manageable. The IRS needs [...]

Shoeboxed’s receipt organizing service is featured in this month’s Inc. Magazine. Here is an excerpt of the article. Make sure to get a copy of the latest edition of Inc. for all the details:
You have better things to do on business trips than hoard and sort receipts. Several companies have recently launched tools that can [...]

For most people, using a free service like TaxACT can be a useful and comprehensive way to file their taxes.
If you are dead set, however, on hiring a tax preparer for your taxes, the IRS has a few tips to follow to make sure you don’t hire someone who is inadequate. Here’s what to look [...]

The IRS has released its list of the top 10 tax tips for the upcoming tax season. Sticking to these can cultivate a “less taxing” experience for you come April 15, 2009.
1. Gather your records…now! It’s never too early to start getting together any documents or forms you’ll need when filing your taxes: receipts, canceled [...]

Now that it is January, tax season is officially underway and Craiglist is full of ads for receipt organization and bookkeeping services. Answer Craigslist ads at your own peril.
There is no money-back guarantee on Craigslist, and there is really no way to determine whether the services you are paying for are legitimate or not. Though [...]

With a one in a million chance of winning a few thousand dollars force you to keep all your receipts? The Hungarian government is hoping that it is. If it goes as planned, the government’s new “receipt lottery” system, which basically makes every receipt for everyday transactions into a de facto lottery ticket, will give [...]

When you buy a new iPod, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle or iPod Touch, Apple offers free laser engraving so you can customize your purchase. With the holidays upon us, the iPod is a good last-minute gift, and an engraved iPod is an even better one, as you can write a personalized message. Apple recommends “No [...]

In a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation, 52% of retailers say they are relaxing their return policies during the holidays compared to the rest of the year. This number is up 35% from last year.
Additionally, one in ten retailers is loosening its policies compared to last holiday season. This is up from 3.4% [...]

Consumers are losing $2.5 billion every year because of overcharging, Good Morning America reports. GMA’s price check team investigated a dozen stores in New York, New Jersey and Virginia recently and found widespread overcharging. With inaccurate scanners, inaccurate pricing signs, and clerical error, make sure to check your receipts as you are checking out of [...]

Internal data from Shoeboxed, a scanning service that scans receipts and business cards into online software for its users, shows that the majority of it’s users would have spent over three hours per month organizing their paper receipts if they did not outsource the work.
Managing paper receipts is time-consuming and costly for small businesses, and [...]

DURHAM, NC — No organization publishes comprehensive information about how many people have their personal information stolen each year, though some estimates place the number at more than 8 million in the United States alone. With the holiday season in full swing and the economy taking a turn for the worse, identity theft is expecting [...]

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, it’s easy to focus on the gift you are about to give and receive, but you may want to begin thinking about the gifts you will receive and then return.
It happens every year: you get a gift from a friend or family member that you just don’t [...]