Tradie, scan your cash receipts by a snap on your iPhone/Android Phone
How tradie keeps cash receipts and invoices
When sorting our accounting and tax, tradie used to be called shoebox accounts, because tradie always stuff cash receipts in shoe box and pass to their accountant to sort them out. It is time consuming and expensive for accounting firm to do these kind of data entry work.
Shoe box accounting is bad, everyone knows:
Now, with the help of smartphone and technology, things are quite different. One handy tool for tradie on smartphone is camscanner app.
Benefits to tradie:
Is ATO ok for electronic records?
Yes, ATO is ok to keep records in electronic form. Check out ATO statement on electronic records.
App Versions:
Checkout camscanner website for details
Other free apps:
Microsoft Office Lens also offer the scan app for free, but right now, from our actual usage, camscanner is the best. There are also other apps, checkout app store to find the one you like.
Want to be a modern tradie to keep your hands on tools, use smartphone app and cloud accounting Xero app to be an efficient and productive tradie.
When sorting our accounting and tax, tradie used to be called shoebox accounts, because tradie always stuff cash receipts in shoe box and pass to their accountant to sort them out. It is time consuming and expensive for accounting firm to do these kind of data entry work.
Shoe box accounting is bad, everyone knows:
- Expensive
- Long lag of claim expenses and GST credit
- Loss of receipts and missed out on claim actually incurred expenses.
- Incorrect reflect of financial health
Now, with the help of smartphone and technology, things are quite different. One handy tool for tradie on smartphone is camscanner app.
Benefits to tradie:
- Snap cash receipts, invoices by your iphone/android phone camera on the go
- Auto crop/enhance to get scan machine quality file
- Get PDF files to email or share on the go
- Scan multi pages in one file
- Free app download
- Fax from app (need to purchase fax credit.)
- Auto upload to cloud and access from your PC.
- Premium version offers documents solution, like 10GB cloud storage, OCR, auto upload to Google Drive, Dropbox etc, checked out to see if you need.
Is ATO ok for electronic records?
Yes, ATO is ok to keep records in electronic form. Check out ATO statement on electronic records.
App Versions:
- Free App: there is camscanner water mark on scanned files.
- Paid App: pay $2.13 (current price in Google Play store, July 2016) to remove water mark.
- Premium version: USD $50 annually to have premium features
Checkout camscanner website for details
Other free apps:
Microsoft Office Lens also offer the scan app for free, but right now, from our actual usage, camscanner is the best. There are also other apps, checkout app store to find the one you like.
Want to be a modern tradie to keep your hands on tools, use smartphone app and cloud accounting Xero app to be an efficient and productive tradie.
