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Autoscan Receipts

Expenses, such as fuel charge, utilities, postage, supplies, computer equipment, or rental, are a part and parcel of any business. More often, you will be receiving receipts for the amount spent on these expenses. The information in these receipts can be captured in Zoho Billing by enabling the auto-scanning of receipts.

The autoscan feature in Zoho Billing lets you store all the receipts or bills incurred in your business. Once you enable this feature, all the uploaded receipts will be scanned and new expenses can be created instantly. You can also restrict who gets access to upload files into the Receipts Inbox (a folder where all your receipts are primarily stored before they are scanned).

Enable Autoscan

To start auto-scanning receipts in your Zoho Billing organisation:

• Navigate to Expenses.

• Click the folder icon in the top right corner of the page.

  

• Click Enable Autoscan after agreeing to the terms.

  

Once you enable the autoscan option, you will be redirected to the *Receipts Inbox* page where you can upload receipts.

Upload Receipts

You can upload the receipts into Zoho Billing in three ways:

• Drag and drop files from your desktop.
• Attach files from your desktop or cloud. 

• Email files to the unique email address generated. You can do away with uploading files manually by configuring the email address and forwarding receipts to it.

  

  Insight: Only files in the format jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, and PDF can be uploaded into the Receipts Inbox.

Email Files to the Inbox

Instead of manually selecting and uploading receipts, you can choose to simply email them to a unique email address that Zoho Billing generates. All the files sent to this email address will be uploaded to the Receipts Inbox and will be scanned automatically.

To enable the email address:

• Navigate to Expenses > Receipts Inbox.
• Click Configure email address.
• Click Enable Now in the pop-up that follows.
• Your organisation’s name will be auto-populated as the system generated email address. You can choose to enter another name.

• Click Save.

  

  Pro Tip: You can change the document forwarding email address at any time by clicking it and selecting Choose your own.

Once you have uploaded the receipts, you can check the status of them in the Receipts Inbox. They can have one of the following four statuses:

Convert Receipt to an Expense

All the uploaded receipts can be converted into an expense easily. To do so:

• Navigate to Expenses > Receipts Inbox.
• Click + Convert to Expense on the receipt, that you want to convert into an expense.
• If the uploaded file has been auto-scanned successfully (the status will change to Processed), the fields of the expense will be auto-populated. Otherwise, you can fill in the missing fields.
• Click Save to save the expense, or click Save & Next to save and move to the next uploaded receipt.
• Click Skip For Now to skip this receipt and move to the next uploaded receipt.
• The converted receipt will be available in the Expenses module along with the receipt attached to it.

Document Level Permissions

You can grant access to a trusted individual, for example, an accountant, a bookkeeper, or a business partner — by inviting them as a User to your organisation, who can access the Documents module.

• View Documents: Enable this to grant the user access only to view all the files in the Receipts Inbox.
• Upload Documents: Enable this to grant the user access to upload and view the files in the Receipts Inbox.

• Delete Documents: Enable this to grant the user access to view and delete the files in the Receipts Inbox.

  

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