If you’re a small business owner, business traveler, bookkeeper or entrepreneur, you know what it’s like having deal with mounds of receipts, business cards and invoices. Managing this paper clutter inevitably turns into a big headache, especially around tax season or in the midst of an audit. You could buy a scanner to get this stuff organized but who really has the time or patience to scan receipts one at a time? We certainly don’t and after a brief search on the internet we came across a cool service called Shoeboxed.com.        

Shoeboxed is a brilliant and remarkably inexpensive service that digitizes and organizes your receipts, business cards, and all other important paper documents online. They do the grunt work so you can get back to focusing on your business. Here’s how it works:

• Send your documents to Shoeboxed via postage-paid envelopes or snap photos of receipts and business cards with any smartphone camera while you’re on the go (Free iPhone, iPad and Android apps are available).

• Shoeboxed scans your documents, extracts the data from each page, and organizes everything into a secure, user-friendly online account. What’s great about this service is that all data is human-verified by trained local Shoeboxed employees to ensure accuracy. 

 

 

• Once everything is processed into your Shoeboxed.com account, the real fun begins. You can organize your information any way you want, print it, download it, email it, or share it via PDF, Excel, Quicken, Google Contacts, Salesforce, Evernote, Outright, Outlook, Quickbooks, Constant Contact, Address Book and many more. In addition, your receipts are accepted by the IRS for auditing and bookkeeping purposes.



 

 

 

We highly recommend trying out the Shoeboxed 30 day free trial so you can test drive the service for yourself. Just click here to check out their trial offering. We have found that they have great customer support too in case you need extra help.