Which expenses should I be capturing?

Anything you spend to earn: supplies, tools, software, phone accessories, printing, work travel, professional fees. Receni records them with date, amount, and category — your tax professional decides what's deductible.

Does Receni calculate my quarterly estimated taxes?

No — it's not a tax calculator. What it gives you is accurate, categorized expense totals by month, so you or your preparer can base each quarter's estimate on real numbers.

I sometimes pay cash — is that a problem?

No — manual entries take seconds and are unlimited on every plan. Cash purchases get recorded with date, amount, and category like everything else.

What happens at tax time?

Export a CSV of the business workspace for the year. Your preparer gets clean, itemized, categorized data for your Schedule C — and you keep the deductions you actually earned.

Receni for the self-employed

You're the business.Keep books like one

Whatever your trade, working for yourself means the receipts are your responsibility — and your deductions. Scan each one in seconds and business stays cleanly apart from personal.

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Corner Print & Copy

Business — client materials

Proposal printing, bound$24.75

Shipping envelope$6.50

Total$31.25

Captured with AI scan

Business vs personalEvery deductionAudit-ready records

Sound familiar?

One person, two sets of books

Business and personal share a wallet

One card, one pocket, two purposes. When groceries and client supplies land in the same statement, untangling them at tax time is hours of guesswork — or deductions abandoned.

Nobody's chasing your receipts

Employees have expense systems that nag them. You have a jacket pocket and good intentions — and every faded receipt is a deduction you paid full price for.

Quarterly taxes, yearly panic

Estimated payments need real numbers four times a year. Without organized records, each quarter is a guess and April is a reckoning.

How Receni helps

Built-in answers for self-employed

Scan it on the spot

Snap the receipt at the register. Receni's AI reads merchant, date, total, and category in seconds — before the thermal paper fades.

Business and personal, separated

One workspace for the business, one for life — or one per venture if you wear several hats. Spending never blurs again.

See your real running costs

Dashboards show business spending by category and month — what it actually costs to be in business, at a glance.

Budgets for uneven income

Self-employed income swings; spending discipline is the buffer. Set monthly category limits and see drift before it becomes debt.

Schedule-C ready

Export the year's categorized business expenses as a clean CSV. Your tax preparer gets itemized data, not a shoebox.

Cash counts too

Market stalls, parking meters, a cash-only supplier — add them manually in seconds so your 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 for most solo businesses

Unlimited

Manual entries for cash spending on every plan

1 tap

CSV export at tax time

Example scenario

For years my 'system' was a drawer and a deep breath in April. Now business receipts go in the business workspace the moment I get them, and my quarterly estimates come from real numbers instead of vibes.

Hana — Self-employed tutor & translatorAn illustrative example — not a customer review.

FAQ

Self-employed questions, answered

Workspaces. Keep one for business and one for personal — every scan lands where you file it, and each workspace has its own history, dashboard, and export. Running two ventures? Give each its own space.

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