Paper Trail: Receipt Scanner

Take a photo of a receipt. Paper Trail reads it and files it. Not just the total — the shop, the address, the date, every line item, the subtotal, the tax and the tip, each one separated out and each one editable before you save. A supermarket trip becomes one card on your board, not eighteen, and you can still categorise every item inside it. BUILT FOR WRITE-OFFS, NOT JUST BUDGETING Most expense apps tell you where your money went. Paper Trail is built around a different question: at tax time, can you prove it? The IRS wants four things for a deductible expense — the amount, the date, the place, and the business purpose. Three of those are printed on the paper. The fourth is only in your head, and it is the one you cannot reconstruct in March. So every receipt can be tagged Business or Personal and carry a note saying why, and the Overview tells you plainly when a business receipt is…