Which agent expenses should I be capturing?

Anything you spend to market and sell: staging, photography, signs, lockboxes, client meals, office supplies. Receni records them with date, amount, and category — your tax professional decides what's deductible.

I'm on a team — does this still work?

Receni tracks your own out-of-pocket spending under your account. Team members each track their own; splits and reimbursements stay a conversation with your broker.

Does Receni track mileage between showings?

No — Receni is for receipts and expenses. Fuel receipts scan like any expense; if you deduct per-mile, keep your mileage log alongside.

What happens at tax time?

Export a CSV of categorized expenses per workspace or for the year. Your preparer gets clean itemized data for your Schedule C instead of a stack of faded receipts.

Receni for real estate

Close the deal,keep the deduction

Agents spend their own money all day — staging, signs, photography, client lunches. Scan each receipt between showings and every listing's true cost stays on record.

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Stage Right Rentals

Staging — 12 Maple listing

Furniture package, 4 wks$420.00

Delivery & setup$85.00

Total$505.00

Captured with AI scan

Photos & stagingMarketing & signsClient meetings

Sound familiar?

Commission in, receipts everywhere

Out-of-pocket by default

Lockboxes, open-house cookies, drone shots — agents front costs constantly. Untracked, they vanish into personal spending and never come back as deductions.

Costs per listing are a mystery

When staging for one listing and signage for another hit the same card, you can't tell which deal was actually worth the spend — or what to budget for the next one.

1099 life, shoebox records

As an independent contractor, your deductions are your responsibility. A year of showings generates hundreds of small receipts — and April rewards the agents who kept them.

How Receni helps

Built-in answers for real estate

Scan between showings

Snap the receipt in the car before the next appointment. Receni's AI reads merchant, date, total, and category in seconds.

A workspace per listing

Staging for 12 Maple stays with 12 Maple. See exactly what each listing cost to sell — and keep personal spending in its own space.

Know your cost per closing

Dashboards show marketing, staging, and client-meeting spend by month. Price your services and budgets on real numbers.

Budgets for the slow months

Commission income swings; expenses don't have to. Set monthly limits for marketing and client entertainment and stay ahead of thin quarters.

Schedule-C ready

Export a clean CSV of the year's categorized expenses for your tax preparer. Every staging fee and open-house receipt, itemized.

Tips and cash costs included

Valet at a client dinner, cash for open-house flowers — add them manually in seconds so records stay complete.

How it works

From pocketful of paper to organized records

Snap the receipt

Point your camera at any receipt — paper, email screenshot, or invoice. Receni's AI reads the merchant, date, total, and category in seconds.

Review and save

Check what the AI extracted before anything is stored. Adjust the category or amounts, pick the right workspace, and save with one tap.

Export when it matters

At tax time or month end, export clean CSV files your accountant can open directly — no shoebox, no retyping.

Free AI scans a month — a real trial through one busy listing

Per listing

Workspaces show what each deal cost to close

1 tap

CSV export at tax time

Example scenario

I fronted staging and photography for years without really counting it. One workspace per listing showed me my true cost per closing — and my tax preparer stopped chasing me for receipts.

Danielle — Residential real-estate agentAn illustrative example — not a customer review.

FAQ

Real estate questions, answered

Yes — create a workspace per listing and scan staging, signage, photography, and open-house receipts straight into it. When the listing closes, its full cost history is one export away.

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