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Beg HN for feedback: I wrote Receipt Party to organize your digital receipts

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Small business people, contractors, and organization addicts of HN, I'd love to hear your expert feedback on my recent project.

Receipt Party aims to be a system for organizing digital receipts that iss so simple, you'll actually use it.

Here is how it works: when a receipt lands in your inbox, you forward it to paper@receiptparty.com At the end of the month, you get an envelope containing hard copies of all of your digital receipts, organized by vendor and date.

The site is http://www.receiptparty.com

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This seems weird.

Why would I login and tie this to my Facebook account? Why not an e-mail since I'm making purchases through that?

If anything, I'd rather install something in my Gmail/Yahoo account that basically had a one button click mechanism that shows up when the app reads that the e-mail address/subject is a receipt (especially with common online companies like Ticketmaster, Amazon, FreshDirect, airlines...) I don't want to have to remember to forward it to a certain e-mail address. I'd rather the app say, "hey, this looks like a receipt, would you like to archive it?"

That's an excellent idea. I went with Facebook login because it was the simplest thing I could think of to do before launching - I will be adding "regular" account creation with email addresses very soon. It would be awesome to be able to say "hey, this looks like a receipt, would you like to archive it?" if I could do it accurately.

Congratulations on the launch!

How does your service work with receipts as PDF attachments in the email?

We are working on a receipt related service as well, CostJar - http://costjar.com, although mainly from the point of digitizing and reducing paper receipts.

Thank you! Re: PDF attachments, it saves the attachment so that when you view your account online, the receipt shows up as a link (which you'd click to download/view the PDF). The PDF gets printed along with all the other receipts when it comes time to make up the monthly envelope of receipts.

I'd be more interested if you held on to them indefinitely in digital form (with reliable backups, etc.)

"You can view or print your receipts anywhere and anytime through our website."

"Forwarding your receipts to ReceiptParty doesn't just mean that we'll organize them and send you hard copies. You can also view all of your receipts, organized by vendor and date any time."

Thank you for the suggestion! I will think about adding that to it.

Clickable: http://www.receiptparty.com

How much does it cost?

For now it's free. When I add paid plans, my intention is to keep a free plan where you'd download the receipts instead of getting hard copies in the mail.

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