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Los Angeles, CA (January 15, 2009) – Shoeboxed, a company specializing in converting receipts and business cards to digital format and categorizing them, announces a partnership with ScanDigital, the leading photo and video conversion service, to allow the cross promotion of their services. Customers on both ends have the same desire to go digital, so [...]

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 [...]

When you own or manage a small business, you want to spend as much time as possible growing your company, building relationships with customers and making sure you provide quality products or services. Almost every small business has to deal with a lot of other tasks and responsibilities, the most daunting of which is keeping [...]

Over here at Shoeboxed, we’re excited about the holidays, and we’re happy about all the people that will get Shoeboxed subscriptions as a presents in the next couple of months. Any good Holiday Gift Guide for a small business owner or business traveler begins and ends with Shoeboxed.
Purchasing a subscription of Shoeboxed’s scanning service for [...]

Since we started Shoeboxed about two years ago, we have been all about receipts: email receipts, uploaded receipts, and finally paper receipts via our Receipt Mail-In program. But Shoeboxed has the power to do more, and we’re excited to expand our services today to include business cards. If you are a Receipt Mail-In member, you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Well, Tax Day has finally arrived. April 15, the day that always seems so far away, the one where we pull out all our procrastination tricks and try to avoid the pain that is giving our money away to the government and the frustration that is going through all that paperwork. Ah yes, a great [...]

Hey everybody,
I just wanted to let everybody know of a small pricing change we are making to Receipt Mail-In. The price per month is still the same: $19.95. Now, though, you can pay for each individual month individually instead of prepaying 3, 6, or 12 months at a time.
For a limited time, we are offering [...]

In some of our new pages about Shoeboxed Mail-In, we have some specs on our scanning process, which (no offense) probably puts yours to shame.
We have a state-of-the-art Kofax scanner that does some pretty impressive processing, and includes a lot of features that I didn’t even know were possible.
With standard desktop and portable scanners, scanned [...]