Photograph your receipts. Drop them in a folder. Shoebox reads every one, renames them, and produces a spreadsheet your accountant will love.
You've got a drawer full of receipts. Tax time is coming. Your accountant is emailing you. And you're staring down 6-8 hours of manually opening files, reading amounts, and renaming them one by one.
At your hourly rate, that's $500-1,200 of your time wasted on data entry a computer should handle.
2025-03-14_$47.50_Bunnings.jpg. A CSV summary is ready for Xero, MYOB, or your accountant.Reads faded thermal receipts, crumpled paper, screenshots, and PDFs. Understands context — logos, ABNs, payment details.
Auto-suggests account codes — Motor Vehicle Fuel, Office Supplies, Repairs & Maintenance. Compatible with Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks.
Photographed a receipt AND got the email copy? Shoebox detects true duplicates and flags them for you.
Digital images can satisfy ATO record-keeping requirements. Shoebox renames files — never modifies the image itself.
Credits never expire. Buy once, use whenever you need.
Windows only. Download is ~50MB. No installation required — just unzip and run.
Your receipts never leave your computer. AI processing happens via encrypted API call — images are not stored.
Your receipt images are sent to Anthropic's API for processing — the same encrypted connection that every Claude user gets. They're processed and immediately discarded. Anthropic doesn't store them. All your original files stay on your computer and are never moved or deleted. No cloud storage, no account required.
In testing on 89 receipts, it correctly extracted amounts, dates, and vendors in every case. It flagged two items it was uncertain about rather than guessing — and in both cases, the flag was correct. For genuinely ambiguous receipts (faded text, missing data), it moves the file to a Review folder and tells you what it couldn't determine. You never get silent errors.
Those are SaaS platforms built for accountants, costing $30–50/month, requiring cloud accounts, and storing your data on their servers. Shoebox is a one-time purchase built for business owners: local, private, Australian-first (GST, ATO compliance, Australian account codes), and cheaper than three months of a Dext subscription.
It's not slow, it's thorough. Each receipt takes 3–10 seconds because the AI is reasoning through it, not just scanning pixels. That's why it catches things OCR misses. Most people let it run while they do something else.
It outputs a CSV spreadsheet with columns matched to Xero, MYOB, and QuickBooks import formats. No direct API integration yet — CSV import is the workflow. Your accountant will know exactly what to do with it.
JPG, PNG, and PDF. Whatever your phone camera produces, whatever your email sends — it handles it.
No. Buy once, use them over multiple years if you want. They carry forward indefinitely.
Files the AI can't confidently read are moved to a Review folder for manual attention. In testing, this is typically less than 5% of receipts.