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Import Business Card Data Into Salesforce With Shoeboxed

“Shoeboxed has just announced the availability of a connector for Salesforce. The connector eliminates the need to enter contact data from business cards into Salesforce; after Shoeboxed scans and organizes business cards online, Salesforce users will be able to import the contact data into their accounts as leads (duplicates can be flagged with a couple clicks).”

August 17, 2010 – Simon Mackie

Four Great Free Tools That Work Great Together

“Shoeboxed lets you mail, email, or send in receipts from your mobile phone. The company then scans and organizes the mess for you. Presto! Your contacts are saved, and your expenses are ready for your accountant. There’s a free trial, plus a free bare-bones version in which you scan and upload your paper bits yourself.”

August 4, 2010 – Carol Tice

Family Circle Magazine

“Write on! When I click to open the National Spending Journal (blog.shoeboxed.com), these words greet me: “Often, consumers don’t realize the underlying psychology that drives them to buy. Does the product trigger a nostalgic memory? Will it help you forget the bad day you just had?”

July 2010 Issue, Pg. 68 – Christina Tynan-Wood

Four Tools to Make Quarterly Estimated Taxes Less Painful

“ With June 15 just around the corner, many of your readers are starting to think about-and perhaps dread-filing their quarterly estimated tax payments. While QETs can be a nightmare for overworked and unorganized small business owners and self-employed individuals, there are many online tools available to make the process easier, faster and headache-free.”

June 14, 2010 – Bank of America Small Business Community

5 More Simple Ways Your Small Biz Can Go Paperless

“Shoeboxed will scan the papers and index them in your account. From there, you can generate highly detailed, sortable reports, and integrate them into your existing database systems, including Excel, Quicken, Outlook, Gmail, Freshbooks (see below), and many others. Essentially, the service can turn a pile of disorganized paper into an expense report or contact database without you ever touching a keyboard.”

May 3, 2010 – Matt Silverman

Best Digital Tools for the Paperless Tax Return

“Snap a photo of a business expense receipt and archive it. Then you can create an expense report. This app, together with the online Shoeboxed service, will organize your expense records for more accurate financials and better tax record-keeping.”

May 3, 2010

Online receipt and business card scanning coming to Australia

“Simplify BAS and tax return preparation, reimbursements, budgeting, bookkeeping and contact management with Shoeboxed.”

April 13, 2010

Best Digital Tools for the Paperless Tax Return

“Shoeboxed can help you capture and scan receipts to online storage easily…”

April 9, 2010 – Gina Trapani

Small Business Web Directory Launches at SXSW

“Companies like Batch Blue Software, Freshbooks, Mailchimp, Shoeboxed and Outright have been integrating APIs in order to help businesses flourish. This week’s launch will help startups stretch their dollars even further.”

March 13, 2010 – Dana Oshiro

Google Apps: The Best For Business

“Google’s recently launched Apps Marketplace is filled with new and useful apps for both large corporations and small business. Our favorite: Shoeboxed, an app that reduces the clutter of all those business cards and receipts stacking up on your desk.”

March 13, 2010

The Small Business Web Directory: Discover Apps That Work Together

“The Small Business Web, a loosely affiliated group of web app providers that cater to small businesses, today launched a handy directory that not only lets you know which companies belong to the group and what they do, but, crucially, which of the apps integrate with each other….It’s great to see that more web app providers are realizing the value of working with each other to improve their products.”

March 12, 2010 – Simon Mackie

10 Ingenious Tools from Google Apps Marketplace

“You’ll also find some highly useful and unique programs that provide new ways to solve problems at far less cost than many commercial software packages…. Shoeboxed attempts to cut down on all the clutter of business cards and receipts.”

March 12, 2010

Google Launches Google Apps Marketplace

“Besides these, other software applications are Aviary, Batchbook, Bookfresh, Expensify, OfficeSync, Shoeboxed.com, and SuccessFactors….Google has made the competition tougher for its rivals like Microsoft.”

March 10, 2010 – Anupreet Kaur

Google Opens Google Apps Marketplace

“Some of the other application partners include Aviary, Batchbook, Bookfresh, Expensify, OfficeSync, Shoeboxed.com, and SuccessFactors.”

March 10, 2010 – Paul Krill

Top Financial iPhone Apps for College Students

February 23, 2010

Shoeboxed: Saving Accountants One Nightmare Client at a Time

“Last week we briefly mentioned Shoeboxed.com and how they can make all your shoebox receipt toting clients disappear. Not only that but it may save some of your more aggressive employees the trouble of explaining why they punched out the deadbeat who showed up with their receipts on April 15th.”

February 16, 2010 – Caleb Newquist

Service Offers Receipt Scanning for Accountants

“Shoeboxed.com has introduced a service that scans in piles of receipts from an accountant’s various clients, archives the documents, and allows the accountant to view and manage the receipts via the Internet. The Durham, N.C.-based company is expanding the mail-in receipt digitization service it has offered to small businesses in the past and providing it to accountants and bookkeepers.”

February 10, 2010 – WebCPA Staff

Application Technology – A Business Trend

“One new application and a great example of app use in business is the “Shoeboxed” application. Available for free, it digitises your receipts and lets you generate an expense report on your phone.”

February 8, 2010

25 Online Resources for Freelances and Small Business Owners

“Once we have more monthly expenses and we’re traveling more, we’ll definitely sign up for Shoeboxed. It allows you to take a photo of a receipt, and Shoeboxed will record the expense, categorize it, and keep a digital receipt. It hooks up with Outright.com to record expenses for tax purposes.”

February 4, 2010 – Erik Folgate

Tracking Your Expenses: Ready for Your UK Tax Return?

“We covered receipt organisation service Shoeboxed a couple of years ago, finding it to be a great solution for uploading, storing and organising your paper receipts, via a mail-in service.”

January 26, 2010 – Imran Ali

Scan Receipts, Invoices, B-Cards with Shoeboxed

“Overall, the Shoeboxed service looks like a great alternative to expensive receipt scanners and hours wasted on non-core business issues.”

January 21, 2010 – Celia Dyer

10 Must-Have Small Business iPhone Apps for a Productive 2010

“You can actually capture images on your iPhone of a receipt, organize it, and store it online – all for free.”

January 7, 2010 – Shara Karasic

Preparing for End-of-Year Accounting

“Any accountant will be happier if you can point them to a website where they can print reports of the data they need, rather than you bringing in a shoe box, and this should mean a smaller bill from the accountant.”

December 30, 2009 – Allan Branch

‘Idiot-proof’ iPhone app tracks receipts

“If you’re tired of typing cash receipts into a spreadsheet, there may be a better alternative: the Shoeboxed iPhone app.”

December 22, 2009 – Allison Ross

Organize your receipts for free on the Web

“Keeping track of paper receipts can be a real pain. You can enter the information into a spreadsheet yourself or spend $200 on software that makes you scan and file receipts. A better solution might be Shoeboxed.”

December 4, 2009 – Carla Thornton

Shoeboxed, a stonking way to manage receipts

“To see the pixie dust on Shoeboxed’s end work its magic is really
freaking awesome, or stonking as Ewan might say. Shoeboxed has that
“WOW” factor to it that is essential in all apps on which I bestow the “brilliant” superlative. I found myself showing it off to my friends, unprovoked.”

December 1, 2009 – Michael Selvidge

Great Apps for Managing Your Small Business

“For keeping track of your expenses, you can’t beat the Shoeboxed app for the iPhone. Not only is it free, but it will save you a ton of time when tax season comes around.”

November 25, 2009 Matthew Hendrickson

Shoeboxed iPhone App Review

“With their new iPhone app, Shoeboxed Inc. strives to make your life easier by keeping track of your expenses and receipts….Once you upload the receipt photo, the people over at Shoeboxed will enter the date, total, payment type, store, and category for you to view on your iPhone or your account online-it’s like having your own personal assistant on hand.”

November 22, 2009

Shoeboxed to make expense reports easier with iPhone app

“Online receipt scanning and expense management service Shoeboxed.com
wants to become an essential tool for mobile businesspeople…. The
iPhone app is efficient, processing my crumpled up grocery receipts
correctly in under 15 minutes.”

November 4, 2009 – Jacob Brody

7 Handy iPhone Apps For Your Work

“With the web app, you scan in what you want to save and organize or
mail in your “shoebox” of items to scan and let Shoeboxed do it for
you. The results are searchable and easy to organize.”

November 4, 2009 – Aliza Sherman

If George Costanza had an iPhone, he’d use this app

“The service allows business people, travelers, freelancers and
individual consumers to organize their finances without having to keep
a shoebox full of paper receipts for their accountant to wade through
at the end of the year.”

November 2, 2009 – Aaron Crowe

Shoeboxed gets iPhone app

“Durham-based Shoeboxed.com has taken its digital receipt archiving mobile.”

October 28, 2009 – Sue Stock

Shoeboxed: Making Business Life Less Tedious

“There are two tasks in business that are really tedious: Tracking
your receipts for expenses and capturing business card data….If
this sounds like your situation you might want to try Shoeboxed, a Web
service that provides a collection point for all your receipts and
business cards and, for premium accounts, enters the data for you into
a useful format.”

October 27, 2009 – Mark Gibbs

App of the Week: Make Quick Work of That Pile of Receipts

“You use your iPhone camera to take a photo of a receipt, then Shoeboxed converts it to a data file and saves it to Shoeboxed.com….In a test, Shoeboxed was able to convert everything from a pristine print out to a crumpled receipt and a colorful movie ticket stub.”

October 28, 2009 – Roy Furchgott

Using Online Services & Mobile Apps to Save Time, Money

“One of the most useful apps mentioned yesterday (at least in my eyes)
was Shoeboxed, a service that takes the pain out of keeping receipts,

tracking them and sending them to the IRS.”

October 1, 2009 – Lisa Barone

October tax deadline putting a crimp in your autumn?

“Clients can get organized on their own with programs like Shoeboxed.com.”

September 21, 2009

Resources small business should know about

“After not having any bookkeeping records and poor billing practices, the biggest problem I see with my small business clients is not keeping up with all the receipts, bills and documents you generate in a year of doing business. Shoeboxed gives you an electronic document management option, so you don’t miss all those business deductions at the end of the year because you lost the receipt. You will eliminate a lot of paper and you may save a few trees!”

September 3, 2009 – Wray Rives

Shoeboxed gets smarter e-receipt scanning

“Shoeboxed announced this week that it has improved the way it handles digital receipts sent to its online filing system. The company, which scans and hosts paper receipts, business cards and full-size documents, can now pick out specific information from forwarded e-mails containing purchase information, and put it into one of the system’s 15 purchase classifications….I gave it a spin earlier today on 10 different receipt confirmations from different vendors and had a 100 percent success rate on it accurately figuring out where the item was from, how I paid for it, and its price.”

September 2, 2009 – Josh Lowensohn

Top 10 Tactics for Productive Travel

“Your accountant, your tax preparer, and your former shoebox
stronghold will appreciate your small efforts. If you’d rather mail
copies or take digital photos or scans of your receipts post-facto,
Shoeboxed has you covered.”

August 29, 2009 – Kevin Purdy

Collaboration is Beautiful

“One of the developments that caught the biggest buzz out of this
year’s SXSW (that’s South by Southwest for newbs)
music/film/interactive conclave in Austin is the recent unveiling of
the Small Business Web. It’s a collaboration among several technology

startups focused on small-business apps, including BatchBlue,
Freshbooks, MailChimp, Outright and Shoeboxed…..What. A. Concept.”

August 24, 2009 – Carol Tice

Online tools for the next wave of entrepreneurs

“Without a sales team to find clients or an accounting department to
settle the bills people owe you, becoming an entrepreneur can be
daunting. You can spend nearly as much time doing paperwork, tracking
down payment and finding clients while owning your own business as you
can actually working….Shoeboxed allows you to mail them your
receipts, which they will scan and categorize so you can track them.”

July 23, 2009 – Aaron Crowe

Stop Wasting Your Time Organizing Receipts: Shortcuts Found Here

“When it comes to minimizing the time you spend on receipts,
Shoeboxed’s service may be one of the simplest options
available….The service handles business cards similarly to how it
processes receipts, turning cards into information that you can easily
add to Microsoft Outlook or other software.”

July 21, 2009 – Thursday Bram

5 Nifty Applications that Save Time and Money

“If your job takes you on the road, then chances are you’re drowning in business cards, expense reports, and receipts, right? Sure, you
keep meaning to sit down at the scanner and feed everything in, but
somehow you never find the time. No problem! You just need a nifty
outfit like Shoeboxed to help out. Pop those bits of flotsam and
jetsam into the mail, and, after scanning and categorizing them,
Shoeboxed will turn the whole shebang into a format of your choosing
and deliver it to you in a safe place online.”

July 14, 2009 – Suzanne

Save Time By Scanning Paper Documents

“If you’ve got a filing cabinet–or desk–overflowing with documents,
or if you want more thoughtful file management in general, a scanner
can save you space, time, and ultimately money….If you’re
overwhelmed by the time required for that initial digitization, some
services can tackle that task for you. Shoeboxed specializes in
scanning business cards and receipts to assist in your accounting.”

June 28, 2009 – Zack Stern

Turn paper receipts into expense reports with Shoeboxed and Nexonia

“Piles of paper receipts, usually shoved into a corner, are the bane
of every small businessperson’s existence. It would be extraordinarily
useful if there was a way to take those receipts and painlessly
recreate them as digital data to be imported and exported in the many
formats needed to keep an eye on the bottom line. Now Ontario-based
Nexonia and Durham, NC based Shoeboxed are teaming up to make that
process just a little bit easier….Users send receipts, business

cards and other ephemera to Shoeboxed through the mail and the company
turns paper chaos into digital files that can be used for bookkeeping,
taxes, budgeting, insurance, expense reports and invoices.”

May 21, 2009 – Warren Frey

Online bookkeeping for freelancers that won’t cost an arm and a leg

“Shoeboxed helps to minimize the work involved in tracking expenses by
scanning, sorting, categorizing, summing up, and storing copies of all
your receipts….The beauty of Shoeboxed is that you need only worry
about keeping your receipts until the end of the month; then spend an
hour or two scanning or, better yet, stuff an envelope and drop it in
the mail, and you’re pretty much done. You can go to the site and add
notes or categorize receipts from places you’ve made purchases at for
the first time, but the heavy lifting you can leave to Shoeboxed.”

May 19, 2009 – Dustin Wax

Smart Move for The Small Business Web

“So kudos to The Small Business Web for mashing-up several SaaS
applications and making them ready to work together from day one. Five
companies, each offering a non-competing SaaS product that small
businesses need, now work together. The gang of five include
bookkeeping (Outright), invoicing and time tracking (FreshBooks),
e-mail marketing (MailChimp), social Customer Relationship Management
(BatchBook), and receipt and business card scanning and retrieval
(Shoeboxed).”

May 11, 2009 – James Gaskin

Tuesday top ten: Online productivity tools

“If you are drowning in receipts from all your business expenses, send
them to Shoeboxed! They will scan and catergorize all that paper.
And it works with Freshbooks and Outright.”

May 5, 2009 – Trisha McCombs

Tips for last-minute filers

“If you would rather organize and store your tax papers
electronically, you have several options….You can use online sites
such as www.shoeboxed.com to scan, organize, and store your receipts
digitally. For a small monthly fee, you can simply mail in your
receipts and they do the rest. For no cost, you can scan your own
receipts and e-mail them to Shoeboxed for storage and retrieval.”

April 16, 2009 – Stefanie Fraser

Advice for Tax Procrastinators, 2009

“Track all your business-related expenses whether or not you’re sure
they’re tax-deductible. It’s a little late this year, but for next
year explore services like Shoeboxed.com, which takes your receipts,
scans them, and organizes them for tax season.”

April 10, 2009 – Karen Klein

SMB Software Mashes Business, Social Features

“Firms like FreshBooks, BatchBlue, and Shoeboxed are delivering
software as a service with a distinctly social agenda. As a result,
they are offering solutions that could rival offerings of giants like
Google and Yahoo….Shoeboxed, for example, is a service that will
scan your business cards for you.”

March 16, 2009 – Kevin Costa

10 Social Media Travel Tools

“Use shoeboxed to scan and digitize the business cards you collect on the road.”

March 6, 2009 – Alexandra Samuel

Squeeze Every Last Dollar Out of Your Income Tax Return

“Finally, keeping great track of where your money goes-and the
receipts for expenses you can claim as deductions-will go a long way
towards saving you money on your taxes…..Mail your receipts to
Shoeboxed and they’ll scan and digitally file them for you.”

March 4, 2009 – Gina Trapani

Shoeboxed teams with ScanDigital

“Shoeboxed, which converts receipts and business cards to digital format and categorizes them for customers, announced the partnership to California-based ScanDigital on Wednesday. ScanDigital is similar to Shoeboxed, except Shoeboxed users mail in receipts and business cards to be digitized, and ScanDigital users mail in photos and videos.”

January 22, 2009

Dreading Taxes? Let Shoeboxed Do Some Of The Legwork

“With tax season rapidly approaching, the prospect of digging through receipts for business expenses and tax deductions is looming large. Shoeboxed, a site that helps manage your purchases by scanning your receipts and posting them to the web, is looking to make the process a little easier.”

January 22, 2009 – Jason Kincaid

Got Receipt Overload?

“Shoeboxed doesn’t eliminate the need to collect receipts, but it will take all that paper off your hands. Travelers can mail in their receipts for Shoeboxed to scan or scan the receipts themselves and upload the files. Then Shoeboxed allows users to log on, sort their purchases, and generate expense reports. Prices start at $9.95 a month, which covers up to 50 scans. Shoeboxed says its customers have up to 100 employees.”

January 12, 2009 – Shivani Vora

Ways to Keep Track of Your Receipts

“Shoeboxed.com is a… site that scans your receipts into a secure page searchable by store name, date, total or payment type. With monthly plans starting at $9.95, Shoeboxed generates statistics about spending and exports receipts to Excel, Quicken and other applications.”

January 7, 2009 – Paola Singer

The New & Improved Shoebox Filing System

“This (almost) falls into the “what will they think of next” category. That; or “why didn’t I think of that” category. Either way, it sounds like a lifesaver for those of you who travel a lot, network a lot and have little time or assistance to organize it all. Shoeboxed.com is a mail-in service that will scan all your business cards and/or receipts (or you can upload on your own) into a secure account. From this account you can export into Quicken, Quick Books, etc. (receipts) and ACT!, Salesforce, Outlook, etc. (business cards) or spreadsheet formats. Sounds pretty slick. “

October 24, 2008 – Lynnelle Wilson

Buried in business cards? Try… Shoeboxed

“Shoeboxed works on a subscription basis, with per-card fees working out to 20 cents a card at the lowest volume ($9.95 a month for up to 50 cards) to 10 cents a card at the highest, as well as a “catch up” service on annual plans, if you forget to send in cards one month.”

October 20, 2008 – Rafe Needleman

Where is that receipt now that I need it?

“An online tool called www.shoeboxed.com can automatically organize both your scanned and e-mailed receipts. (Bonus: The site catalogs what you bought, so you can see where your money goes.) At tax time, or when you need a receipt for a warranty, it?l be right there online.”

October 19, 2008 – The Lifebeat Staff

Shoeboxed now automatically categorizes your receipts

Jay Hathaway

“Trying to figure out where to tighten your belt during the financial
crisis? You might want to take a look at Shoeboxed. It’s an online
service that helps you keep financial records by recording receipts
that you mail, email or upload….If tax season always sneaks up on

you, Shoeboxed could be the help you need to make sure your records
are all in order.”

October 9, 2008 – Jay Hathaway

Shoeboxed Now Auto-Tags Your Submitted Receipts

“Shoeboxed now auto-scans your mailed or e-mailed receipts and categorizes them – “Clothes,” “Food,” “Retail,” and so on – based on the merchant or product names. Shoeboxed is looking like a nice set-and-forget option for anyone who gets a bit frantic come tax time.”

October 9, 2008 – Kevin Purdy

Shoeboxed now tags scanned receipts for you

“Receipt-scanning service Shoeboxed… automatically files scanned receipts into one of 15 expense categories. These include groceries, gas, and travel expenses, which you can view simply by clicking on them. Users can also create their own expense categories…”

October 8, 2008 – Josh Lowensohn

How to Organize the Receipts You Need to Save

“Shoeboxed.com provides both PC and Mac users with introspection into their spending patterns. Members pay a fee of $19.99 per month to mail in their receipts and have their receipts scanned (if you scan the receipts yourself, site use is free). Information can be sorted any which way, says Englander. Chronologically, by store, where you spend the most, etc.

September 16, 2008 – Sean Leviashvili

Living In, Working On a Shoebox

“Shoeboxed is a free, secure way to automatically organize online purchases. It’s also a way to reduce spam. Everybody who shops online knows you wind up with a load of emails from the company trying to sell you more stuff. With a shoeboxed.com e-mail address, that spam winds up with Shoeboxed, not in your personal inbox. “

September 7, 2008 – Gail Penington

Shoeboxed and Price Protectr partner to save you cash

“Shoeboxed and Price Protectr, two sites we’ve written about in the
past, joined forces in a partnership that’s downright helpful to deal
hunters.”

August 11, 2008 – Josh Lowensohn

Shoeboxed, the Netflix for receipts, gets smart tracking tools

“The site launched in July of last year, and this morning it is unveiling two new useful features. The first is a new analytics engine that will break down your spending habits with svelte-looking charts and graphs. What makes this particularly useful is that it can track both your on and offline purchases, which is shown in one of the new graphs.”

June 18, 2008 – Josh Lowensohn

Shoeboxed: Organise Your Receipts

“I wonder if in five years time, we?l be ?hoeboxing? Infact, most of us probably already are Launched around a year ago, Shoeboxed provides a simple service for uploading, storing and organizing all those paper receipts that are stuffed into real shoeboxes around our homes and offices, into over-sized wallets and purses, largely lost or disorganized until summoned by our accountants and tax authorities!”

June 16, 2008 – Imran Ali

Shoeboxed offers service to digitize those receipts

“The company is highly aware that some users might have security concerns, so it takes serious precautions both digitally online and in its physical location to insure privacy and security… Its Web site is cleanly designed and informative without putting users through a lot of sales pitches or relying on fancy graphics.”

June 11, 2008 – Allan Maurer

Thinking Outside the Shoebox

“Vivimedia, a creative services agency in San Diego, mails its receipts to Shoeboxed because it’s cost effective and goes with the company’s mission of going green, said Tamara Tuttle, principal and founder of the company, which has two full-time employees and a stable of about a dozen contractors. Tuttle said she posts the Shoeboxed mail-in envelope in the office and workers just drop their receipts in it after coming back from lunch, for example. She sends it off to Shoeboxed but “then I never have to deal with it again” because the Vivimedia accountant deals with the spreadsheets online.”

June 6, 2008 – Sharon McLoone

Earth Day

“Shoeboxed is lending its efforts to recycling that most ubiquitous document of business transactions – the receipt. Starting today, anyone can mail in receipts to Shoeboxed.com or bring them by the company’s office for shredding and recycling.”

April 22, 2008 – Monica Chen

Got 4 Minutes?

“File taxes faster. If less-than-stellar recordkeeping turned filing your 2007 taxes into a trauma, make next year’s IRS deadline a nonevent by digitally tracking deductible purchases. A free account at Shoeboxed.com lets you sort receipts by date, total, type of purchase or any other label.”

April 2008 – Zoe Stagg

Whatever format you use, save those records!

“Internet and software tools also support better budgeting that can pay off during tax time and throughout the year. For example, Shoeboxed.com is an online receipt-scanning and archive service founded by students at Duke University. It lets consumers convert receipts into digital records for use in tracking personal spending and compiling tax records.”

March 28, 2008 – Russ Wiles

This Morning

“If you’re looking for a better way to organize all your small business receipts, a new website may be your answer. More on how Shoeboxed.com works from its founder and CEO, Taylor Mingos.”

March 27, 2008 – Gordon Deal

KXAN News in Austin, Texas

“When I’m traveling on business, it’s very tough to keep up with my receipts so I can get my expenses reimbursed. Shoeboxed.com is a website where you can take your receipts, scan them in, and file them for future reference…. So when I’m on business trips or I’m shopping for my personal items, Shoeboxed is going to be great for me to keep these things together, and to keep the for the end of the year, not only for expense reimbursements, but also for my own personal taxes.”

March 21, 2008 – Charlie Ray

Tax Helper

“Just in time for the tax season, Shoeboxed.com, a “Netflix for receipts” Web site by a Durham start-up, is now compatible with Quicken and TurboTax. Shoeboxed helps customers organize receipts, and compatibility with the two leading desktop programs in money management and tax preparation was a natural move for the business.”

February 10, 2008 – Monica Chen

Southwest In-Flight Magazine

“When it’s time to pay your taxes, searching for the receipts from that pricey Vegas business trip can make your blood pressure soar. Launched last year, Shoeboxed makes your life easier by automatically organizing both scanned and e-mailed receipts in a handy tabular format.”

February 2008 – Clair Jurkiewicz

Mail-in Receipts

“Their sole purpose is to help organize your life. Sounds good right? More specifically the most annoying thing ever: receipts. [They] just added a new Netflix-like service; you simply send it receipts, they scan them for you, and then organize them in a spreadsheet. This It’s great! If you don’t have a secretary, this might do the trick.”

December 19, 2007 – J.R. Biersmith

Shoeboxed Mail-In is Netflix for Receipts

“[Mail-In] is set up in a very similar to Netflix: you’ll gt a prepaid envelope every month for you to send in your receipts. Shoeboxed will mail them all back once your receipts have been scanned.

It’s always interesting to see the combination of web-based services with human-powered features, as is the current trend with search engines. So I’ll be anxious to see how this all turns out. What’s handy about Shoeboxed Mail-In is the personal assistant appeal the service has (if only they could follow me around while I shop, and collect the receipts, too…).”

December 18, 2007 – Kristen Nicole

Duke Celebrates Entrepreneurs

As part of the first-ever Entrepreneurship Week, Shoeboxed.com founder Taylor Mingos… explained how [he] leaped ahead of the learning curve at the Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Panel.

December 5, 2007 – Julia Love

Be a Tough Consumer

“When you bring home your latest gadget or garment, don’t toss the receipt in the trash. By keeping receipts and documents and, in some cases, packaging, you leave the option open to return items…. Web sites like Shoeboxed.com… offer free tools to help organize and store your receipts online.”

October 28, 2007 – Shelly Banjo

Entrepreneurial spirit begins to flourish at Duke

“Hoping to recreate his experience in Berlin, Mingos returned determined to found a startup of his own at his soon-to-be alma mater. One idea, two semesters and a newly recruited business team later, the Duke grad launched Shoeboxed, Inc. Now, with a sunny, colorful office in Brightleaf Square, the more than 20 Duke students and alumni working for Shoeboxed are able to put their ideas and talents to use.”

October 23, 2007 – Saide Brinton

Online receipt organizer thinks inside the box

“Organizing purchase receipts is just one example of the hassle-filled bookkeeping tasks everyone is stuck with. Creating an online application to smooth out the process is the digital age’s version of the proverbial better mousetrap.”

September 29, 2007

Lessons from the ’90s bust inform young entrepreneurs

“Taylor Mingos has introduced shoeboxed.com, a Web site that helps users archive receipts and filter out spam e-mail messages from companies they once patronized. “I want to eliminate paper receipts entirely,” he said. “I saw my mom collect literally shoeboxes full of receipts. They’re very archaic in a society where everything has gone digital.” Shoeboxed.com, introduced two months ago, may be based on a simple idea, but Mingos knows simple ideas have gone on to dot-com immortality.”

September 28, 2007 – Sue Stock

As founder of Shoeboxed.com, recent grad starts a “Consumer Revolution”

“Immediately after graduating with a triple major in electrical engineering, biomedical engineering and German studies [from Duke], he led a diverse team of 16 back to the vibrant European city, where they spent the summer working around the clock in a modest apartment to start what they call a “revolution” in online shopping.”

September 2007 – Kendall Morgan

Organize your Receipts at Shoeboxed.com

“At first glance an online receipt organizer may seem unnecessary, but tracking expenses your company will reimburse alone is a pain in the butt that Shoeboxed can ease.”

August 23, 2007 – Gina Trapani

Shoeboxed Handles Your Online Shopping Docs

“This service will provide you with an email address that you can provide to online stores when you purchase items or sign up for newsletters. Shoeboxed will then automatically organize all of your online receipts, updates, newsletters, etc. There’s also a spam filter to keep those pesky emails away.

Another helpful aspect of Shoeboxed is the list of categorized stores that you can choose from when making and managing your account. Seems like a great way to keep your personal email box a little bit neater.”

August 2, 2007 – Kristen Nicole

Daily with Joanne Colan

“Finally, a website that automatically makes your life easier.”

August 2, 2007

Elite American students have chose Berlin as the base for their Internet start-up (German Original)

“Alternating productive silence and hearty laughter surround you when you are a guest in probably the most productive apartment in [Berlin]. In the fall, Taylor will go back with his team to Durham, where Duke University is located.”

July 19, 2007 – Christoph Koch

The Entrepreneurs: Shoeboxed

“[Look at] the entrepreneurial Shoeboxed team, gracing our cover, whose dorm-room dream turned serious online startup is a story for the ages. Shoeboxed, Inc. has designed technology to organize digital receipts and fight spam, with other ideas still in the pipeline.”

July 2007 – Sarah Ball and Chelsea Allison