The Sweetest Way to Keep Track of Your Expenses

Keeping track of all those paper receipts and then organizing them come tax time is a demanding task for all small business owners.

A new service called Lemon gives you an easy way to save all your receipts using your smartphone. Simply take pictures of them and store them online in your own personal Lemon account. Digital receipts mean less clutter and better organization!

"The sweetest way to keep track of your purchases." says the Lemon website. Save your receipts "on the go" with their free app for Android, Blackberry, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and, coming soon, for Windows Mobile.

This is an easy way to keep track of expenses, whether it's for reimbursement or just to see where your money is going. The data is compiled using easy to read charts and helpful reports that show how you are spending your money.

Large companies are now offering digital receipts, instead of giving you a paper receipt, which has been a hot topic in the news recently. By giving them your email address, companies will send you a paperless receipt by email instead of a slip of paper to keep track of. "These new electronic receipts go by many names - e-receipts, email receipts, online receipts, digital receipts, paperless receipts - but the process is usually the same. Instead of handing you a paper receipt, the store offers to send a receipt by email. All you have to do is hand over your email address." writes Cindy McAdam on the Lemon Blog.

But with the option of a digital receipt, the merchant will also be sending a lot of other communications that you might not want cluttering up your inbox. Lemon is the perfect solution. Giving the merchant your Lemon account email address means that they sort out the receipts from the junk mail and the data is easy to find and keep organized.

With Lemon, you get your own email address @lemon.com, to send all those receipts (and junk mail) to. Lemon has a limited free account, offering unlimited storage and up to 100 emails/receipts a month. Lemon also offers a free trial for their paid memberships offering up to an unlimited number of receipts for businesses.

Use this easy application to manage all your expenses in one place, whether you paid by credit card, debit card or cash. Stay on budget and track expenses to make your life a little easier.

Learn more at Lemon.com.

Posted on October 17, 2011 11:31:15 by Blog Author