Let’s face it – paper documents, though vital for business purposes, are a huge nuisance. We send letters via email, read books on Kindles and check the news on anything but a newspaper; yet, every time we make a purchase or shake a hand, we are greeted by an annoying paper receipt or business card.
If you’re a small business owner, business traveler, bookkeeper, or sales manager,you have to deal with those pesky little receipts and business cards for taxes, bookkeeping, and contact management. And what happens when the IRS comes calling for one of those pesky receipts from last year? Or when you need to enter 500 business cards into a contact list? Chaosand a major waste of time!
Enter Shoeboxed.com, a brilliant and surprisingly inexpensive service that takes your receipts, business cards, and all other important paper documents, and digitizes and organizes them online. You never have to lift a finger or touch an expensive scanner! Here’s how it works:
1) Send your documents to Shoeboxed via postage-paid envelopes or snap photos of receipts and business cards with any smartphone camera while you’re on the go (iPhone app available).
2) Shoeboxed scans your documents, extracts the data from each page, and organizes everything into a secure, user-friendly online account. What’s great about this service is that all data is human-verified by trained localShoeboxed employees to ensure accuracy.
3) Once everything is processed into your Shoeboxed.com account, the real fun begins. You can organize your information any way you want, print it, download it, email it, or share it via PDF, Excel, Quicken, Google Contacts, Salesforce, Evernote, Outright.com, Outlook, BatchBook, Constant Contact, AddressBook and many more. In addition, your receipts are accepted by the IRS for auditing and bookkeeping purposes.
We highly recommend trying out the Shoeboxed 30 day free trial so you can test drive the service for yourself. Just click here to check out their trial offering. They have great customer support too in case you need extra help.
