The digital receipts Shoeboxed creates are IRS approved, which means that if your business is audited, the IRS accepts the accuracy and legitimacy of digitized Shoeboxed files.
Even if you never get audited, you can benefit from the simplification Shoeboxed provides. For instance, if you sync Shoeboxed with your Gmail account, Shoeboxed automatically imports data from any receipts that get emailed to you and sorts them into the right category. It also uses your phone’s GPS for mileage tracking. At the end of a business trip, the app turns the tracked miles into a receipt and categorizes it accordingly.
What does that mean in time-saving terms? You won't have to sort through your inbox to pull and catalogue receipts yourself. And instead of tallying up trip costs every time you stop for gas, you can focus on the trip itself and let Shoeboxed handle the rest.
Shoeboxed doesn’t include employee reimbursement options—which isn’t necessarily an automatic con. After all, small-business owners with dozens of employees aren’t the only people who need organizational help; freelancers, contractors, and sole proprietors do too. Still, if you’re looking for something with more robust business support, including corporate card management and employee reimbursement, you’d be better off with a receipt-scanning app like Expensify.
And according to reviews on Google Play store, the free Shoeboxed app leaves a little to be desired; the images it captures aren’t crystal clear and can take several shots to focus correctly.