WellyBox is the closest thing The Paper Keep has to a direct rival: both find receipts in your email so you don't have to. The difference is who they're for — WellyBox feeds small-business accounting at US$9+ a month; The Paper Keep keeps a household's receipts findable for $30 a year.
Pick by the job you need done, not the feature count.
A personal receipt archive that fills itself from your email.
For households and sole traders who want every receipt kept, parsed and findable — for tax, warranties, and whenever a receipt is suddenly needed. $3/mo flat, everything included.
Receipt collection for small businesses and their accountants.
Scans Gmail and Outlook for receipts, captures via WhatsApp, and pushes documents to QuickBooks or your accountant. Priced per business, from about US$9/mo billed annually.
Everything below about The Paper Keep is shipped today — not a roadmap item.
| Feature | The Paper Keep | WellyBox |
|---|---|---|
| Getting receipts in | ||
| Scans your email inbox for receipts The core feature both products share | Gmail via read-only OAuth; Yahoo, iCloud, Fastmail and custom servers via IMAP | Gmail and Outlook |
| Microsoft / Outlook inboxes | Via forwarding rules only — no native Outlook connection | Native Outlook support |
| Several inboxes feeding one library E.g. both partners in a household, or personal + side-business | No per-inbox or per-user pricing | Plan-dependent |
| Import history on first connect | Up to 12 months back, with an estimate before anything imports | Deep backfill is a paid-tier feature |
| WhatsApp capture | Photo upload from any browser instead | Snap a receipt in WhatsApp |
| What happens to each receipt | ||
| AI extraction of vendor, date, total, tax | Claude-powered parsing of emails, PDFs and photos | |
| Line items extracted, each taggable | Per-item categories and tags | Document-level data |
| Email receipts stay renderable for good Inline images downloaded and archived before retailer CDN links die | ||
| Full-text search inside receipts | OCR text, line items, notes, tags, sender | |
| Field-level audit history Before/after values for every edit, enforced by a database trigger | ||
| Where the data goes | ||
| QuickBooks / accounting integrations | CSV export instead | A core selling point |
| Australian tax-year summaries July–June years, deductible and GST totals, ATO monthly FX rates | ||
| Work-from-home deduction estimator (AU) | ||
| Price | ||
| What it costs Entry price for one person/business | $3/mo or $30/yr — everything included, 14-day free trial | From ~US$9/mo billed annually (≈US$108/yr); higher tiers for more documents and features |
| No document caps | One flat price; fair-use processing pace | Plans are tiered by document volume |
Details for WellyBox are drawn from its public website, documentation, and pricing pages as of July 2026, and may have changed since. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. Spotted something out of date? Email [email protected] and we'll fix it.
The Paper Keep doesn't try to be everything. If any of these describes you, pick accordingly.
WellyBox exists to push receipt documents into accounting software and accountants' hands. The Paper Keep exports CSV but integrates with nothing.
WellyBox connects Microsoft inboxes natively. The Paper Keep can only take Microsoft mail via a forwarding rule.
Snapping receipts into a WhatsApp thread is convenient if that's where your team already lives.
Warranties, household purchases, two people's tax receipts in one place — an archive, not an accounting feed.
July–June tax years, deductible and GST totals, ATO exchange rates and a WFH estimator are built in, not workarounds.
For a personal archive, most of what the extra money buys at WellyBox is accounting plumbing you won't use.
If you run a small business whose receipts must land in QuickBooks or an accountant's workflow, WellyBox is built for exactly that and the price reflects the business context. If what you actually want is every receipt your household generates — kept, parsed, searchable, and shaped for an Australian tax return — that's the whole of The Paper Keep, at roughly a quarter of the price.
Want the wider field? See the full comparison or our roundup of personal receipt apps.
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