The hard thing about being a freelance designer is that it’s a business and all it’s bookeeping falls on yourself. That’s sucks, trust me! I have had my fair share of trouble keeping track of the other side of being in business for yourself, the reciepts, invoices, estimates, etc.. I found a solution with Shoeboxed.com. This site sends you a postage paid envelope that you stuff all your receipts in and mail them back to Shoeboxed, who then scans them and post them online in your own account, with a easy to use interface.

Shoeboxed does the grunt work for you. Scanning your receipts so you have all the data you need for taxes, bookkeeping and expense reports for easy contact management all accessible online from anywhere.

• You send in receipts and business cards that we scan into your account
• Automatic categorization of your receipts
• Receipts sortable by store name, date and total
• Send your receipts to Quickbooks, Excel, PDF, Quicken, Freshbooks, Outright.com and Evernote
• Import business card contacts to Outlook, Address Book, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Gmail, and most other contact programs
• Automatically generated statistics about spending
• Shoeboxed email address for emailing receipts to your account