How do you keep track of your CC receipts?

[MarineVietVet]

I will hang on to receipts for major purchases but for most everything else they only have a limited time before they are shredded.

[CribDuchess]

Most of our receipts end up in the recycle bin or the shredder.  But, I have this cool app on my smartphone called "CamScanner" which I use to take pictures of the receipts that I want to keep.  You can put them into .pdf and you can even put several receipts into one .pdf if you want, and then you just send an email to yourself from your phone.  I did this recently in order to submit a reimbursement claim to our flexible spending TPA at work as they have a website for submitting your claims online.

[mmduluth]

I have a pretty simple way of doing it. I'm one of those people who never throw my receipts away because you just never know. I have a coupon organizer type thing that's organized by month. At the end of the day I take all of the receipts out of my pockets and put them in the sorter. When the next year comes around and I get to that month, I throw the old receipts away and just keep going.

[Anonymous]

At the beginning of each month I put the month and year on an envelope.

I put all my CC receipts in the envelope then at the end of the month seal it up and put it with the others.

Ive got a box of them at this point.

I may start burning some of the older ones.

[Revelate]

I guess I'll just ask it straight out: how many of you dedicated receipt savers actually need the receipts at any point post purchase?

[Open123]

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@Revelate wrote:

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@Open123 wrote:

I have them all imaged, dated, and filed under the merchant names on an external hard drive.

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Do you do this for your personal expenses or just your business ones?

I guess I'm a slacker: I don't see any point to keeping my personal ones unless it's something I can deduct (which is few and far between for me these days).

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Mainly for business deductions just in case those are the years requeted by the IRS auditors.  

For my personal stuff, I keep them only long enough to ensure i don't need to return or exchange the item.  However, these days, most places where I buy things don't even require a physical receipt.

[Open123]

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@Revelate wrote:

I guess I'll just ask it straight out: how many of you dedicated receipt savers actually need the receipts at any point post purchase?

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Hm, aside from audits, I've never needed them.

[webhopper]

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@CribDuchess wrote:

Most of our receipts end up in the recycle bin or the shredder.  But, I have this cool app on my smartphone called "CamScanner" which I use to take pictures of the receipts that I want to keep.  You can put them into .pdf and you can even put several receipts into one .pdf if you want, and then you just send an email to yourself from your phone.  I did this recently in order to submit a reimbursement claim to our flexible spending TPA at work as they have a website for submitting your claims online.

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is the app for iphone or do they have a Blackberry version?  That sounds like a cool app!

[llecs]

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@webhopper wrote:

I'm not that organized... I toss them.

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+1. They go away that day. Only exception are biz-related receipts and I toss those in a big blue bin and organize those whenever I can. At the end of the year they remain loose in a box and is sealed after taxes.

[CribDuchess]

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@webhopper wrote:

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@CribDuchess wrote:

Most of our receipts end up in the recycle bin or the shredder.  But, I have this cool app on my smartphone called "CamScanner" which I use to take pictures of the receipts that I want to keep.  You can put them into .pdf and you can even put several receipts into one .pdf if you want, and then you just send an email to yourself from your phone.  I did this recently in order to submit a reimbursement claim to our flexible spending TPA at work as they have a website for submitting your claims online.

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is the app for iphone or do they have a Blackberry version?  That sounds like a cool app!

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S II (android phone), but I just googled the CamScanner app and yes, it is available for iPhone - here's the link for it:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camscanner-free/id388627783?mt=8

And, if you need it for Blackberry you can go here:  http://www.mobihand.com/532/product.asp?id=172030

It's a great app - I love it.