Turn receipts into a spreadsheet.

Keeping receipts for a business? See how to organise business receipts for tax time.

New to this? Our guide on how to convert receipts to Excel walks through all three methods — typing, scanning and email receipts — and the columns worth keeping for tax time.

How it works

Upload one or more receipts, and the tool reads the date, store, items, amounts and tax into a table. Everything is editable: click any cell to correct it, hover a column heading and press ✕ to remove a column you don't need, or add your own column for things like a project or client name. When the table looks right, download it as an Excel file — already in the shape you want, so there's nothing to clean up afterwards.

Who ends up using it

The people who get the most out of this are the ones stuck retyping small amounts of paper into a spreadsheet:

• Freelancers and sole proprietors with a shoebox of receipts and a self-employment schedule to fill in.
• Small business owners doing their own books between bookkeeper visits, or preparing a sales-tax return.
• Employees filing expense claims whose finance team wants a line-by-line sheet rather than a folder of photos.
• Anyone tracking a specific project — a renovation, a move, a trip, a rental property — where the receipts come from a dozen different stores.

It's deliberately a single-purpose tool. There's no account, no sign-up, no subscription and nothing to install: open the page, drop in receipts, download a spreadsheet, close the tab.

Getting a clean read

Accuracy depends almost entirely on the image. A few habits make a large difference:

• Photograph the receipt flat, in even light, with the whole receipt in frame including the total at the bottom.
• Avoid shadows falling across the print and avoid harsh direct glare on glossy thermal paper.
• Keep the receipt roughly upright rather than at an angle, and don't crop the edges too tightly.
• For long receipts, a straight-on photo of the full strip works better than a folded one.
• If you already have a PDF from an emailed or downloaded receipt, use that instead of photographing a screen.

Accepted formats are PNG, JPG, WEBP and PDF, and you can add several files at once before pressing Read receipts — they all land in the same table, which is what makes a monthly batch quick.

The columns, and changing them

By default you get Date, Vendor, Item, Category, Quantity, Unit Price, Tax and Total, with one row per purchased line item rather than one row per receipt. Category is a best guess made from the item description — useful as a starting point, but it's the column most worth reviewing.

The table is fully editable. Click any cell to correct it, hover a column heading and press ✕ to drop a column you don't need, use + Add column to create your own (a client name, a project code, a GL account), and + Add row to enter something by hand — a cash purchase, or a receipt too faded to photograph. Rearranging the sheet before export is usually faster than fixing it in Excel afterwards.

When it looks right, Download Excel produces a real .xlsx file with an "Expenses" sheet, named with today's date so a folder of monthly exports stays in order. It opens in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice or Google Sheets.

What happens to a receipt you upload

Your files are read in your browser and sent to our server only so the text on them can be extracted, which is done by an AI vision model. We don't store your receipts or the extracted data — the table you see exists only in the page you have open. Close or refresh the tab and it's gone, so download your Excel file before you leave.

Because there's no account and nothing is saved, there's also nothing to delete later and no history for us to look up. If a receipt contains something you'd rather not send anywhere at all — a full card number, a medical detail — cover it before photographing, or add that row by hand instead. Our privacy policy covers the site as a whole.

Limits worth knowing before you rely on it

Automatic reading is good, not infallible, and it's your name on the tax return. Expect to review rather than trust blindly, particularly with:

• Faded thermal receipts, the kind that have been in a wallet for months — often the single biggest cause of a bad read.
• Handwritten receipts and totals, which are far less reliable than printed ones.
• Cramped abbreviations. Many tills print item names truncated to a few characters, so the description may need rewriting to be meaningful a year later.
• Split or multiple tax lines, discounts, deposits and refunds, which can be allocated across line items differently from how your accountant would.
• Currency. Amounts come through as plain numbers without symbols, so keep foreign-currency receipts in a separate export or add a currency column.

There's also a fair-use cap of 10 receipts per day per device, which keeps the tool free for everyone. If you want to see how the output looks without uploading anything, press Try with sample data — it loads a set of example rows you can edit and export exactly like a real one.

Always reconcile the totals against the paper before filing, and keep the original receipts. Most tax authorities expect you to retain source documents for several years; a spreadsheet is a record of them, not a replacement for them.

Built for expense and tax tracking

Keep a running table across multiple receipts, then export one tidy Excel sheet at tax time. Pair it with our income tax and sales tax calculators to estimate what you'll owe.

This tool helps you organise expense records. It isn't tax advice — see our disclaimer.