Receipts → your Drive and Sheets, automatically
Forward receipts and invoices to your catch address. ExpenseCatcher files each one in your Google Drive, reads the numbers, and logs a row in your Google Sheet. No app, nothing to migrate.
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How it works
Call it “Acme invoices” or “Travel”. You get a private address like acme-invoices-k7q2m9xw4r@inbox.expensecatcher.com.
By hand, or with a Gmail or Outlook rule so receipts forward themselves. PDFs, photos and plain email receipts all work.
Renamed to something searchable in your Drive folder, with vendor, date, total and tax added as a row in your sheet.
Catchers
Every catcher starts by saving to Drive and logging to your sheet. Then chain on what your books need — one catcher per client, card or project.
Save to a Drive folder
Renamed from what was read, sorted into year or month folders.
Log to a Google Sheet
One row per receipt, any sheet and tab you pick.
Only continue if…
The sender, vendor or amount matches what you set.
Forward to an email
Your accountant, or your Xero or QuickBooks inbox.
Email me a summary
What was caught and where it went.
Send to a webhook
For Zapier, Make, or your own code.
Why ExpenseCatcher
Most expense apps keep receipts in their system. Here the files and the sheet are yours from the first catch — cancel and nothing moves.
ExpenseCatcher can only touch files it creates and files you pick. It cannot read the rest of your Drive — Google’s consent screen says so.
If you can forward an email, you can use it. Your accountant gets a Google Sheet, not another login.
Freelancers
One catcher for business costs, one for anything you bill back to clients.
Small teams
A catcher per card or department, all logging into one shared sheet.
Bookkeepers
A catcher per client, each filing into that client’s own Drive folder.
Households
Bills, warranties and big purchases in one folder you can actually find.
Pricing
A catch is one forwarded email processed by a catcher. Every plan includes AI reading, Drive and Sheets.
No credit card needed
50 catches a month, 5 catchers and everything else in Basic. When the 30 days are up you move to Free unless you choose a plan. Nothing is charged, because we never ask for a card.
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Starts today, billed through Paddle. Cancel any time.
For a few receipts a month
$0/ month
Free forever, no card needed
Where every account lands after the trial, unless you choose a plan.
For freelancers and side businesses
$9/ month
or $90 a year — 2 months free
Or try it free first — no card.
For small teams with real volume
$29/ month
or $290 a year — 2 months free
For bookkeepers handling many clients
$79/ month
or $790 a year — 2 months free
FAQ
Anything with a receipt in it: PDF invoices, photos of paper receipts, and receipt emails with no attachment at all (Uber, Amazon, app stores). Each one is read by AI to pull out the vendor, date, total, tax and category.
Your Drive and your sheet hold the real copy. We keep the fields we read so you can see and correct each catch — corrections are written back to your sheet — and an encrypted copy of the original file for 30 days. Delete your account and we delete everything; what is in your Drive stays yours.
Yes, AI (Anthropic’s Claude) reads each receipt to fill in the vendor, date, total and other fields. Under Anthropic’s commercial terms your documents are not used to train models, and we don’t train on them either. It only fills in fields for you to check — it can’t send email or change anything.
Only the “drive.file” permission: access to files ExpenseCatcher creates and files you pick yourself in Google’s file picker. We cannot see or search the rest of your Drive. You can check this on the Google consent screen and revoke it any time.
A small automation with its own email address. Everything sent to that address runs through the catcher’s steps — save to Drive, log to a sheet, then anything you chain on, like forwarding invoices over a certain amount to your accountant.
In Gmail, add your catch address as a forwarding address and create a filter for messages from your vendors or with words like “receipt” or “invoice”. We confirm Gmail’s verification email for you. Outlook rules work the same way. Step-by-step Gmail guide →
One forwarded email processed by a catcher. Your first 30 days are on Basic, with 50 a month; after that the Free plan includes 5. Test catches don’t count, and neither do emails a filter step skips before anything is filed.
Your account moves to the Free plan unless you’ve picked a paid one. Nothing is charged — we never ask for a card to start. Your catchers, your catches and every file in your Drive stay as they are. Receipts past the Free limit aren’t lost: we hold them, encrypted, for up to 30 days and file them when your catches reset or you upgrade. The trial is for Basic; Pro and Business start when you pay.
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