NEAT Receipts for Mac Advance Release

I mean, scanner just sucks in general. searched receipt scanners in googled and some othe rpeople with do it for you.

www.shoeboxed.com

-jasonk

John -

That's a great-looking time and expense app. I like the cross-platform capability that you get from it being an AIR app. I will be writing a review of NEAT Receipts soon and will put ORA Time and Expenses in as a competitor.

TUAWSteve

I totally agree. Receipt Wallet is a great app. You can use your current scanner, or buy a portable. You can also use your built-in iSight cam. Receipt Wallet is $40, and the developer posts regular updates. You should also include this app as a competitor.

http://www.receiptwallet.com/

Hi, I'm one of the NEAT Receipts for Mac developers. Just wanted to clear up a couple of points raised in the comments:

1) We work fine on the Macbook Air. Our scanner is a brand new redesign, based on the previous NEAT Receipts scanner used for Windows. The driver is also exclusive to us.

2) We ARE a Mac-centric solution. I've been a Mac owner and developer dating back to the Mac Plus. NEAT Receipts for Mac was designed from the ground up as Cocoa application, influenced far more in it's UI by iLife than by NEAT Receipts for Windows. In fact, the only code we share is our patented image processing and OCR analysis code. We even have a bunch of cool Mac-only features: PDF native storage, Print To NEAT Receipts, Drag/drop field editing, and more.

It's a bit pointless in the UK - 95% of people in the UK never need to fill in tax returns, and of those that do unless you're a company you won't need anything like that kind of detail - scanning receipts? All I ever needed to do when I did self assessment was tell them my annual income & it takes 5 minutes to fill in the form (which can be done online anyway).

If you're VAT registered you'll need this information - but that implies you're a company selling at least £64,000 of goods a year. If you're doing that kind of trading you'll have an accountant anyway (which is always recommended - a good accountant will save more in tax rebates than you spend on the accountant themselves).

The US seems to be a special case - from what I understand everyone has to fill in complex tax forms every year, regardless of whether they're a simple worker or a company director. Having to keep copies of all their receipts is a new one though - didn't know it was that bad over there.

Maybe so, but I have difficulty tracking my spending, yet keep a ton of receipts. Checking their forums, they don't even support GBP yet in the scanning - just the basic functionality of tracking spending in a more meaningful way would be great. I'm awful at writing down expenditures on the go, but receipts I can remember to keep and process at the end of the week.