Walkthroughs, use cases and small habits that make keeping receipts a few seconds a day instead of a tax-time scramble.
Looking for an old purchase? Prepare a receipt search for Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook or iCloud, with steps for your own inbox. No signup or inbox connection needed.
Find my receipts →How to connect a Gmail account so receipt emails get scanned automatically, and what to do when receipts arrive in more than one inbox.
Read →How to set up a Gmail filter (or equivalent) that auto-forwards receipts to The Paper Keep, so you never have to think about it again.
Read →A small starter category set built around how the ATO actually classifies work-related expenses, plus what to skip until you need it.
Read →Practical photo settings and habits so paper receipts come out sharp, square, and easy for OCR to parse the first time.
Read →The Gmail search operators that surface years of buried receipts, how to keep them collected with a label and filter, and the one-click alternative.
Read →A step-by-step Gmail filter setup that forwards every receipt to a single address automatically — useful whether or not you ever sign up for anything.
Read →Every way to turn an email receipt into a PDF — one at a time, in bulk, and on your phone — plus what the PDF approach costs you at scale.
Read →The receipt is still in your inbox, but the content is gone: how remote-image hosting quietly rots email receipts within a couple of years, and what actually preserves them.
Read →You don't need Gmail to automate receipt-keeping. How to connect iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail or any IMAP mailbox — or set up forwarding rules — so every receipt lands in one place.
Read →Start with what you can claim by occupation: practical expense and record-keeping guides for Australian employees. Or check a specific bill or purchase in our Can I claim it? WFH expense guides.
The ATO's substantiation rules in plain English: the $300 threshold, what counts as written evidence, the five-year retention rule, and what you can safely skip.
Read →You can run a compliant sole-trader operation with a business bank account, a receipt archive, and a spreadsheet-shaped export — here's the system, and when you've outgrown it.
Read →Yes — the ATO accepts photos, scans, PDFs and emailed receipts as written evidence, on two conditions. What they are, and when you can throw the paper away.
Read →Accountants don't want your receipts — they want categorised totals with the receipts retrievable behind them. How to hand over exactly that, and what it does to the bill.
Read →myDeductions is free, official, and feeds straight into your return — and stores everything on one phone with manual backups. Where it's the right choice, and where it isn't.
Read →The fixed-rate method wants a record of actual hours; the actual-cost method wants your bills and a usage basis. Exactly what evidence each method requires, and how to keep it painlessly.
Read →Explore work-expense guides for teachers, nurses, construction employees and office workers, with category setups, receipt examples and WFH estimates.
Read →A practical teacher tax guide: teaching aids, professional learning and WFH costs, plus categories, item tags and mixed-receipt examples in The Paper Keep.
Read →Review nursing equipment, protective clothing and CPD expenses, with practical categories, item tags and receipt records for your next Australian tax return.
Read →An employee guide to tools, protective clothing, licence renewals and travel records, with categories and item tags to organise construction work expenses.
Read →Review work technology, professional training and home-office costs, then use categories, tags and WFH estimates to prepare your Australian tax records.
Read →Australian employee guides to electricity, internet, furniture, monitors, AirPods, phones, laptops, uni courses and health insurance, with records and examples.
Read →How Australian employees can review WFH electricity and gas costs, compare fixed-rate and actual-cost methods, and keep bills and usage evidence.
Read →Check the work share of home internet, household and bundled-plan use, and the WFH fixed-rate overlap. Includes a bill example and receipt organisation.
Read →Australian employee guidance for desks and chairs: work use, the $300 tests, depreciation and fixed-rate treatment, plus keeping the evidence in The Paper Keep.
Read →Check a work monitor’s private use, dual-screen purchases and asset treatment. See how item tags and records help prevent an overstated tax claim.
Read →Work calls do not make every headphone purchase deductible. Check work and private use, cost and evidence, with a practical AirPods receipt-review example.
Read →Separate a smartphone purchase from mobile plan charges, review work use and fixed-rate overlap, and organise the original bills for an Australian tax claim.
Read →Check laptop work use, depreciation and the $300 tests. Includes an example showing why a small work share does not make an expensive laptop an immediate claim.
Read →Check whether a university course relates to current employment, distinguish HECS-HELP from eligible FEE-HELP course fees, and keep the right study records.
Read →Private health insurance is not a WFH deduction. Understand the separate rebate question and keep personal insurance receipts out of work-expense estimates.
Read →A purpose-by-purpose answer to how long receipts need to survive: 30 days for returns, five years for tax, the life of the product for warranties — with the reasoning behind each.
Read →A lost receipt doesn't kill a warranty claim in Australia. The proofs of purchase retailers must accept, where to find them, and how to make this the last time.
Read →A small routine at purchase time — capture, tag, note the warranty expiry and serial — that makes any warranty claim in the next decade a two-minute job.
Read →Household receipts are scattered across every family member's email address. How to funnel all of them into one shared library — and the small tagging habit that keeps two tax returns untangled.
Read →Most medical and school costs aren't tax deductions — but the receipts still do real work: health-fund claims, safety-net tracking, reimbursements, and a few deductible corners.
Read →A short, dated checklist for sole traders running an ABN — what to gather, what to reconcile, and what to hand to your accountant.
Read →Most warranty claims fall over because the receipt is gone. Here is a small system that keeps them findable for the full warranty window.
Read →A practical, slightly opinionated take on how a couple can keep household receipts straight without making it a chore.
Read →How to handle USD/EUR/GBP receipts so they show up correctly at tax time, and what to do about exchange-rate conversions.
Read →How the fixed-rate and actual-cost methods compare, and how the WFH estimator turns your utility bills and work assets into a claim-ready number.
Read →A small set of habits that turn receipt-keeping into a few seconds a day instead of a tax-time scramble.
Read →Six recurring traps that turn a tidy receipt system into a tax-time mess, and the small adjustments that prevent each one.
Read →Why a single purchase often produces two receipts, and how to keep both without double-counting your totals.
Read →Find a missing receipt by tracing how you paid and ordered. Choose a retailer guide, search your email, or prepare a useful request for a copy.
Read →Looking for a receipt in the Flybuys app? Find Coles digital receipts in Payment history, download the PDF, and check why an older shop may be missing.
Read →Find Walmart receipts in Purchase History, print an online order, or use the official US receipt lookup for a missing card-paid store purchase.
Read →Find a Zara receipt in your account, follow a guest-order email, or use Zara’s store receipt recovery form with the purchase and payment details.
Read →Find your Amazon order, open the invoice or order summary, and save a copy. Includes missing orders, seller invoices and a browser fallback for the app.
Read →Use American Airlines’ receipt request with your ticket number and passenger name. Find separate onboard receipts and troubleshoot missing travel documents.
Read →Find submitted receipts in Fetch’s Points activity, switch to the receipt tab, and open the original photo. Includes what to do if a receipt is missing.
Read →Find a McDonald’s app receipt through email or restaurant support. Covers Australia, UK and US guidance, missing emails and third-party delivery orders.
Read →Find Woolworths eReceipts in Everyday Rewards, save a copy, and troubleshoot a missing shop. Australian guidance for digital and lost paper receipts.
Read →Click-by-click product docs — short, task-shaped, kept up to date with the app.
