New 'Neat Receipts' Gadget Helps with Taxes & More

We came across the greatest gadget at Costco (our best friend!). It's called Neat Receipts®. It's a lightweight, portable scanner that helps you scan, read and organize documents, business cards and (best of all) receipts. It will even help you easily organize your receipts by tax form and export to Excel®, Quicken®, Quickbooks®, TurboTax® and other similar software programs.

Suggested Business Uses:

Expense Reports
Invoices
Business Cards
Receipts
Faxes
Contracts

Suggested Home Uses:

Taxes
Budgets
Receipts
Warranties
Personal Documents
Children's Artwork

When we first saw this at Costco, we were skeptical. We have used other image recognition tools / software and not been please with the results. We bought it, though, and we're glad we did. It is easy to install, easy to use, and is saving us HOURS of time organizing our business receipts.

Now, we won't tell you it is 100% accurate. You need to watch the data that gets imported and edit if/as necessary. If you have treated your receipts well, keeping them flat and legible, you'll have more success than if the receipts are all wadded up in a bag. If you are a bag stuffer, don't worry. It will still save you (or your tax preparer) HOURS of time and let you move on to things that you enjoy more!

Check out Neat Receipts® at http://www.neatreceipts.com/. Their published price is $229.95. We paid $149.99 for ours at our local Costco. Costco's current website price is $154.99 and includes a desktop stand and a deluxe travel case.



Patty & Scott Carroll - RE/MAX Equity Group, Vancouver WA