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Product · 2 May 2026 · 5 min read

Receipt capture that actually works

Receipt capture that actually works

Every accounting product claims receipt capture. Most of them mean a photo upload with a form you still have to fill in yourself.

The hard part was never the photo. It's the match: connecting a crumpled thermal receipt to a bank line that reads SQ *AUCKLAND 4471 three days later, for an amount that differs because of a tip or a partial refund.

COUNT approaches this as a ranking problem. We extract the merchant, date, total, tax component, and line items, then score every open transaction in a window around the receipt date on merchant similarity, amount tolerance, card last-four, and your own historical behaviour.

When the top-ranked match clears our confidence threshold, we attach the receipt and move on. When it doesn't, the receipt lands in a small review queue with the two or three likely candidates ranked. One tap and it's done.

In practice, most businesses see well over 90% of receipts matched with no human input at all, and a review queue that takes under a minute a week.

Put your books on autopilot