Capture and reading

• Add receipts and other files

  Pick files, or drop them anywhere on the page.

• Photograph a receipt on your phone

  Use your phone's browser. There is nothing to install.

• File types you can send

  Images, PDFs, office files, text, email files and ZIPs, up to 25 MB each.

• What happens to each type of document

  Some documents become expenses, business cards become contacts, and everything else is filed.

• Forward receipts by email

  Every person has a private address that files whatever is sent to it.

• Send from an address you have verified

  Mail to receipts@papertotal.com files for you when it comes from an address you have proven is yours.

• Forward receipts automatically

  Set a filter in Gmail or Outlook so receipts reach PaperTotal on their own.

• When a forwarded email is not filed

  Recent forwarded emails says what happened, and PaperTotal replies with the reason.

• Send a ZIP of receipts

  One ZIP can hold up to 200 files, and each file becomes its own document.

• How PaperTotal reads a document

  What happens between adding a file and seeing an expense.

• What goes to Review

  Documents that were hard to read or look like duplicates wait for a person. Everything else files itself.

• Correct what was read

  Your changes stay, even if the document is read again.

• Possible duplicates

  How copies are spotted, and how to keep one and void the rest.

• Add an expense with no receipt

  For anything with no receipt to photograph.

• Search everything

  Every word on every receipt is searchable, along with expenses, reports, merchants and contacts.

• Organise documents in folders

  File documents by year, client or job.

• Restore a deleted document

  Deleted documents wait in the trash for 30 days.

Still stuck?

Write to support@papertotal.com and a person answers by email. Say what you were trying to do and what you saw, and we can start from there.