Bonus: you can cling to the digital files until your expense report is approved and you're reimbursed. After all, you have to attach these files to an expense report. The point is, get your scanned receipt files to a storage location. Remember how I mentioned that Scanner Pro can send files to popular cloud-based storage and information-management services? You can usually send your photos there too. Step Two: Back up those digital files someplace you can get to them. The app offers you the in-app ability to seamlessly send things to cloud-based services like Evernote, OneNote, Dropbox and Google Drive.

The app saves things as PDFs, which is also very useful. The app converts multiple snaps into a multipage PDF this is very handy for lengthy receipts (like hotel statements). The app automatically calibrates the image for you and zooms in on the stuff that's relevant it's a nice, tight image file. But I prefer the $3.99 app Scanner Pro, for the following reasons: Yes, your smartphone has a camera, and that's perfectly adequate. Step One: Figure out how you're going to turn those receipts into digital files. After confirming with our accounts payable people that PDFs and JPGs were acceptable for submitting receipts, I set about unshackling myself from the messy practice of saving paper receipts for expense reports. I like to travel light, so schlepping around a bunch of receipts for reimbursement later is kind of a pain.

Expense app with dropbox support