If there’s one thing I absolutely loathe to do for my business, it is keeping receipts and doing the accounts – YUCK!. Thankfully, I have someone to handle the book keeping for me. Unfortunately, the receipt part is still up to me.

Now you could throw all the receipts in a file or box like I did but when you need to track something down it is a pain. Good thing for Evernote. It is quite easy to set up Evernote to automatically grab my scanned receipts and save them.

In the desktop app, there is a feature where you can Import Folders. Just add the folder where your receipt scans are stored and it will do all the work. You can also tell Evernote to delete all the scanned images after it’s done – a little house keeping on the computer.

Don’t have time to sit and scan? I figure this is one of those things you can hire your children to do. Or you could pay Shoeboxed to do it for you.

Consistently done, you will have a list of searchable receipts and no clutter.

How does this compare with NeatReceipts? I think NeatReceipts take things a step further though in the sense it actually extracts the information that you can turn around and plug into other software. The Evernote solution I’m talking about here is more for saving and archiving. And that works for me since there is someone who already does the books for me, the receipt notebook can be shared with the book keeper. If I had to do it myself I would probably have gone the NeatReceipts route.