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Shoeboxed, the leader in online receipt management that many of our readers know and love, has announced an exciting new partnership to help you use your Shoeboxed receipts for online bookkeeping.
Outright.com, the easiest way for self-employed people to manage their bookkeeping, now integrates directly with Shoeboxed, allowing receipts from Shoeboxed to flow seamlessly into Outright.com’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Quickbooks Pro, the preeminent bookkeeping software for small businesses is free today at Staples store across the U.S. after a mail-in rebate. Normally $199, you can buy it at the store for $40 off and then send in a rebate for the rest of the $159. This deal is only available today, December 22, 2008.
The [...]

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 [...]

We are happy to announce that Shoeboxed and TaxACT, a leading online tax preparation service, have partnered to bring you complementary services. Here at Shoeboxed, we hope this will help make Tax Season 2009 easier and less stressful for you.
When used together, TaxACT and Shoeboxed provide consumers with an easy way to complete tax returns [...]

Entrepreneurship Week at Duke University is starting today, and we just wanted to let everyone know about some of the great events planned.
As you may know, Shoeboxed was founded by Duke undergraduates more than 2 years ago, and is located just a few blocks from Duke’s campus in Durham, NC. As part of the Research [...]

Exciting Update: You can now upgrade your Shoeboxed account to include our Mail-In program on your Account & Settings page.
It’s easy to upgrade to any one of our three plans, Lite, Classic, or Business. From your Account & Settings page, you also have the option to sign up for one of our yearly plans, which [...]

I’ve got to say: sometimes you all surprise me. Like today, when I found this awesome little gem about Shoeboxed out there.
This little gem didn’t seem like much at first. Actually, I was in the middle of about 10 different things at the time, and I didn’t really know what it was immediately. But it [...]

Though we are still synching up our the two registration processes that we have for Shoeboxed, I wanted to go ahead and talk about the new pricing that we have up for our main registration site, http://start.shoeboxed.com.
Over the last week, we have been testing out the new pricing to see what people think, and the [...]

Shoeboxed has moved! Our new offices are just a couple of blocks down the same street in downtown Durham, North Carolina. We’re excited about the move, as we have a great new colorful space in the Suntrust building, one of the tallest and most recognizable buildings in Durham. We needed to move into a more [...]

I got this via email from one of our awesome users today.

That right there is just beautiful.
Need a Shoeboxed sticker? Send me an email at help@team.shoeboxed.com with your mailing address information, and I’ll send you a couple!

One feature that we have released on the website without really talking about much is Trash Receipts. Since we wanted to create a place for your receipts to go (Get it? That’s our tagline.), we wanted a place for your unwanted receipts to go as well. There are some receipts that can be annoying to [...]

I’m going to need some cake and candles immediately. Also, a party hat would be great. Why? Not that I need a reason, but Shoeboxed is celebrating its first birthday today!
We’ve been working on this idea since 2006, but we finally launched our original open beta version of Shoeboxed one year ago today.
Thanks to everyone [...]