NEAT Receipts for Mac
When NEAT Receipts contacted me recently and asked if I wanted to try out their new Mac version after the success of our first NEAT Receipts giveaway, I knew that some of you Mac-users would be interested. Not being a Mac girl myself, I asked my friend Katrina to try it out for me.
Katrina’s blog, Callapidder Days, is one of my favorites (and not just because she’s one of my best friends). She writes about a variety of topics–from frustrations at the grocery store, to parenting (a wise-beyond-his-years tween and a typical toddler), to game reviews and recommendations–and everything is so clever that it makes you smile, nod, and wish that you could write like that.
Here’s her review:
Last summer, 5 Minutes for Mom held a giveaway for the NEAT Receipts scanner, a nifty tool geared at helping you tame your paper piles. Though I wasn’t one of the lucky winners, I filed the product’s name away in the back of my mind as something I definitely wanted to get someday. But then I became a Mac girl and figured I was out of luck.
Well, I’m thrilled to announce that NEAT Receipts has recently announced the Advance Release of NEAT Receipts for Mac! And five of you will win one!
When this sleek little tool arrived at my house, I didn’t even have to think twice about how I would use it. We are finishing a basement remodel and I have a file folder stuffed with receipts, invoices, packing slips, and various documents related to that project. Even though all the items are technically contained in a single folder, the overflowing stash of paper was still stressing me out.
NEAT Receipts to the rescue! It took me less than ten minutes to get NEAT Receipts up and running. I installed the software on my MacBook (and, by the way, the redesigned scanner coordinates perfectly with the MacBook – sleek, clean, white, very spiffy-looking). I registered my scanner online, took the virtual tour, and got right to work.
Using the NEAT Receipts scanner couldn’t be easier. Simply place the edge of your receipt or document in the scanner’s opening and press the Scan button. The paper is fed through the scanner and the software takes over. The NEAT Receipts software “reads” your receipts and records all the relevant information – vendor, transaction date, price, etc. So not only do you have a PDF version of your receipt (so you can finally toss the hard copy in the trash), but you also have the key data from that receipt available for sorting, searching, exporting, or anything else you might need to do with it.
I already have future scanning projects lined up. My husband is looking forward to handing over all his travel expense receipts and “letting” me create his expense reports. I have tax-related receipts and documents, kids’ artwork (I can’t keep every drawing, even though I’d love to), and recipes that I’ve clipped from magazines. All of them are scheduled to be scanned soon. It will be great to have a usable filing cabinet again. NEAT Receipts will definitely help me reduce the paper piles that threaten to take over this house.
Note: The Mac version of NEAT Receipts is an Advance Release, so that means it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that the PC version does…yet. However, an update will be released in early 2009, and anyone who has purchased (or who wins) the Advance Release version will receive a free upgrade. You won’t miss out on anything. In fact, you’ve got nothing to lose except piles of paper!
If you’d like to win one of five of the NEAT Receipts for Mac, leave a comment here. We’ll publish the winners on July 24.
117 Comments
ooooh! i could SO use this!!! crossing fingers!!
Hi Jennifer ,Please count me in as I know just how useful this would be to me..Once you go to Mac you don’t go back
thank you..
Great giveaway, thanks so much!
This would be great! I collect tuition at our school and I could scan the checks in each month to help keep track.
I have a mac. I have receipts. It sure would be neat to get Neat Receipts. Great giveaway! Thanks!
Wow! Wouldn’t this be a life saver for a stay at home mom whos business owner husband thinks she is his secretary.
Thanks for the opportunity!
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Not only do I want to win your fabulous prize, I need to win it! I am terrible about putting receipts in places and then never finding them again! Please enter me in your delightful contest. I appreciate it! Many thanks, Cindi
Whoa, you wouldn’t believe how much we need this around this house! LOL. And hubbie has a Mac.
*crossing fingers*
Please, please enter me in this fab giveaway!! We have a MAC and a mountain of receipts to rival Everest. Send help!!!
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Wow, this sounds awesome! Count this Mac girl in! What a great giveaway. Thanks for thinking of us Mac lovers ;P
That contraption just might save my life and my marriage!
This is fabulous! I love it, please enter me in the giveaway. Thank you!
I have wanted one of these forever!! I just can’t justify spending the money on it. It seems like such a luxury. so I would LOVE to win it!!
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this is so up my alley. sign me up!
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I’ve been trying to get organized all year (a new years resolution). I am making some progress but this would really help.
Oh how awesome, I just cleaned out my office this week from what looked like a tornado. One thing I can’t stand to have to keep for IRS purposes is receipts. This would be great!!
I’ve never heard of this software, but it sounds extremely useful, and I’m thrilled to hear it’s for MAC! I’m definitely interested.
I’ve been drooling over this at Costco and wishing that they had a Mac version! We are a Mac family and I need this – I have my own home business and my receipts are EVERYWHERE.
Thanks!
Oh my. I am so excited about the release of this product. Talk about Spring (or Summer) cleaning! Please sign me up for the drawing. Good luck to all of you Mac Mommies!
This would be great for me to convince my spender husband how much we really spend on certian things. Thanks!
I would love this…
We just got a Mac, and I would so love to win this and use it for our house remodel file! Thanks for a great giveaway!
Oh, for the love of all that is good, PLEASE random number picker, pick on me!!! I’m a Mac girl. With a million receipts. And I play the banker in our house. PICK ME!
I would love to win this. What a way to clean up the mess on the hutch!
I’d LOVE to win a nifty scanner. Sign me up for your drawing.
We are a mac family and we would love this!
This would be fabulous! I definitely need help controlling the paperwork.
Very cool! New to macs (2 months now) and the concept of storing receipts in the ‘puter. I’d like to try it.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
This would be fabulous!! I am a recovering pack rat – I would love a little help downgrading my paper stack!
I’ve been wanting something like this for budge tracking, I didn’t even know they existed!
What A great idea for those of us who clip coupons and keep our register receipts…!!! Oh Yes, I want one.
This is pretty cool-it sure would beat our accordian file system which never seems to be up to date…
I would love one of these! I am so buried in paper, what a great solution! And for a Mac!
Cool giveaway! Thanks!
My wallet and my MacBook THANK YOU! WOO HOO!
Pick me, Pick Me Please. I have a Mac and love it and this would be an great addition.
what a fantastic invention! i’ve been waiting for something like this to come along and eliminate the book shelf of concertina folios i’ve been collecting for so long!
I’ve been a mac girl all my life. I would LOVE to win this!
I’m a Mac girl and I could really use this. Please, pick me, pick me!
I’m a MAC fangirl! I could certainly use this!
My husband saves EVERY piece of paper..it drives me NUTS! This would be a great tool to put all of his reciepts into our imac for safe keeping! I would also love this for all of my magazine clippings.
I want to win this!
Hubby would love this!
I’ve been wanting one of these!
Oh my gosh – I hope I’m no too late!! I first saw Neat Receipts on Martha Stewart and actually ran out that day to get one only to find that I couldn’t use it on my Mac.
Now I read this article!! Woo hoo!!!
I’m so excited I can hardly stand it.
I would love one. Please enter my name!
Thanks!!
finally a good product like this for Mac! Sign me up for the drawing!
ever since I first saw a Neatreceipts kiosk at an airport two years ago I have been salivating in anticipation of the Mac version release. Having been a Mac Girl since the mid-eighties I am use to the long “wait” for those products that are first born for the PC world. I would LOVE to win this sweet little devise that has so long been the subject of a reoccurring dream. ; )
macs since forever….. love the new ‘toy’….
thanx for the opportunity…..
yes!!!! i am a mac user. count me in. thank you
I have a home daycare & have SO many rec. that I have to keep for my taxes at the end of the year. So.. I would LOVE one of these!
Thanks!
Heather hermashaw@gmail.com
This would be so nice to organize all my receipts in my drawer.
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