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Receipt and invoice digital archiving

Purpose

1.1. Automate the digital collection, classification, and storage of receipts and invoices from all sales, vendor purchases, and expenses for a herbal medicine retail store.
1.2. Automated archiving ensures compliance, improves audit readiness, enables fast retrieval, and reduces manual workload by automating document intake, validation, categorization, and retention.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated ingestion upon receipt or invoice file upload via email.
2.2. Auto-detection when a transaction is completed in the POS or accounting system.
2.3. Scheduled, automated imports from connected scanners or mobile capture apps.
2.4. Automated sync on vendor portal invoice creation.
2.5. Automating archiving when backend API receives an invoice from e-commerce platforms.

Platform Variants

3.1. Google Drive
• Feature/Setting: Google Drive API — automate file uploads, metadata tagging, and folder hierarchy for receipts.
3.2. Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: Dropbox API/file-requests — automate saving and versioning PDFs received from emails or scanners.
3.3. SharePoint
• Feature/Setting: SharePoint Document Libraries, Automate API integration for rule-driven invoice categorization.
3.4. Microsoft OneDrive
• Feature/Setting: Graph API for automated receipt syncing and automated folder management.
3.5. DocuWare
• Feature/Setting: Intelligent Indexing and REST API for automated invoice extraction and classification.
3.6. Evernote
• Feature/Setting: Note creation API to automate invoice parsing and archiving in dedicated notebooks.
3.7. Zoho Books
• Feature/Setting: Zoho Books API — automate attaching receipts to transactions and organize them by automated categories.
3.8. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Xero Files API — automate upload of receipts from emails to the correct expense report.
3.9. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: QuickBooks API — automate archiving of sales receipts with automated tagging to chart of accounts.
3.10. SAP Concur
• Feature/Setting: SAP Concur API for automated forwarding and archiving of e-invoices and automated indexing.
3.11. Expensify
• Feature/Setting: Expensify SmartScan & API for automated receipt extraction, classification, and cloud archive.
3.12. Wave Accounting
• Feature/Setting: Wave Receipts API for automated document upload, matching, and sorting by automated triggers.
3.13. FreshBooks
• Feature/Setting: FreshBooks API for automating receipt uploads and linking automatically to expense entries.
3.14. Receipt Bank (Dext)
• Feature/Setting: Dext Prepare API for automating digital capture and automated ledger posting.
3.15. Adobe Document Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Adobe PDF Services API to automate converting image receipts to PDF and automated cloud archiving.
3.16. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Salesforce Files Connect/API for automated linking of receipts and invoice docs to accounts.
3.17. Box
• Feature/Setting: Box Upload API for automated archiving, custom metadata, and workflow automation for receipts.
3.18. Notion
• Feature/Setting: Notion API for creating automated databases of receipt images, metadata, and vendor info.
3.19. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Airtable API for automated table creation with receipt records and automated attachments.
3.20. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Slack Files & Workflow Builder to automate receipt uploads from channels to cloud archives.
3.21. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Smartsheet Attachment API to automate attaching and archiving digital invoices per sheet row.
3.22. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Trello API for automated card creation with receipt attachments in financial admin boards.
3.23. SFTP Server
• Feature/Setting: SFTP automated monitoring triggers to archive new receipt uploads to secured, dated folders.

Benefits

4.1. Automated capturing, sorting, and tagging enables real-time financial visibility.
4.2. Reduces manual errors and speeds up data entry with automation.
4.3. Improves compliance through automated document retention policies.
4.4. Enhances searchability and automated audit trails.
4.5. Enables scale and standardization by automating recurring archiving tasks.

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