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Scanning your first receipt with AI
Drag a photo onto the scanner, watch the AI extract vendor, date, amount and category — review and save.
Receipts & expenses
Adding an expense without a receipt
Sometimes you don't have a photo — fuel bought with a fuel card, an online subscription, mileage. Here's how to enter it manually.
Receipts & expenses
Tracking business mileage
HMRC's simplified rates let you claim mileage without keeping fuel receipts — Mileage does the maths.
Receipts & expenses
What HMRC allows as a business expense
The 'wholly and exclusively' rule, common allowable expenses, and the gotchas that catch people out.
Receipts & expenses
The 6-year HMRC Vault — what we keep, how it's stored
HMRC requires you keep records for ~6 years. The Vault handles that automatically.
Receipts & expenses