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Turn Uploaded Receipts into Expenses with Zoho Expense Autoscan

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What the source describes

Zoho Expense's FAQ explains that Autoscan reads data such as date, amount, currency and merchant from an uploaded receipt and uses it to create an expense. It says Autoscan can extract line-item data and handle receipts in more than 14 languages. Receipts can be uploaded from a computer or cloud storage, dragged and dropped, clipped with browser extensions, or emailed in.

Result or outcome

According to the source, Autoscan creates expenses automatically from receipt data, reducing manual keying of receipt details.

How to run it

  1. Upload receipts to Zoho Expense from your computer or cloud storage, drag and drop them, clip them with the browser extension, or email them in.
  2. Let Autoscan read the date, amount, currency and merchant, plus line items where available, and create an expense for each receipt.
  3. Copy the extracted fields for the batch and paste the prompt on this page into an AI chat to flag likely scan errors and duplicates.
  4. Open each flagged expense, compare it to the receipt image, and correct the fields or rescan the receipt.
  5. Remove duplicates and confirm categories before submitting the expenses for approval or reporting.

Try it yourself

Copyable prompt

I scan client receipts with an OCR expense app, and some scans fail or come through wrong. Here are the fields the app extracted for this batch: [date, merchant, amount, currency, category]. Please review each line and flag anything that looks like an OCR error, such as a date in the future, an amount that looks like it lost a decimal point, a currency that does not fit the merchant's country, or a merchant name that is garbled. Also flag possible duplicates (same merchant and amount within [number] days). Return a short checklist of the lines I should open and verify against the original image, with the reason for each.

Replace the [bracketed] placeholders. Remove client names, account numbers, and personal data before pasting into any AI tool.

What to review

Check every Autoscan expense with an unusual amount, odd currency or garbled merchant against the original image before it is reported. Report totals should tie to the receipts, and duplicates from receipts sent in by both email and upload should be removed.

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Source: Zoho Expense FAQ

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