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What's in your Dropbox?

Dropbox has become a very popular tool for small businesses - a solution for storing all their documents. In amongst all these documents we know, from speaking to our clients, that there are a lot of invoices and receipts. The data from these still needs to be extracted and entered into your books - this is where we come in!

Providing customers with as many ways as possible to keep tasks like these off your desk is one of the main aims of Receipt Bank - this is why we built a Dropbox integration! Using Dropbox with Receipt Bank, you can have files pass directly from your folders in Dropbox to our servers. This eradicates the need for somebody to do all that time-consuming data entry!


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Whilst you can just drag and drop files into Dropbox, there are numerous tools out there to help digitize your documents effortlessly. We've picked out a few below:

GetDoxie - an amazing way to scan documents from anywhere. GetDoxie provide a whole host of versatile scanners to suit all needs - they link directly to Dropbox.

Quickshot with Dropbox - Quickshot turns your smartphone into a direct portal to Dropbox. Take a snap on your phone and it will be automatically uploaded to your Dropbox.

ScanSnap - Fujitsu's ScanScap scanners allow you to select a folder on your computer, eg. Dropbox, where all images arrive automatically after scanning.

More tools like this are being developed all the time. So if you come across any other methods for cutting the time it takes to get your files into Dropbox, please let us know by leaving a comment or emailing the team. The less time it takes to get items into Dropbox, the quicker Receipt Bank can process them and have the data sent on seamlessly into your accounts!