Scanned receipts

Remind Me Tomorrow

I've noticed that a lot of my receipts that I keep for warranty or insurance purposes have faded over time, some to the point where they cannot be read. I want to scan them and store them digitally. But are scanned receipts acceptable proof of purchase?

slimjimmc

Should be fine. As far as your consumer rights are concerned you just need proof of purchase, which can take many forms. A receipt is good but other forms of proof such as a credit/debit card statement or bank statement are just as good. Some sellers will even check their own records without you supplying any supporting documentation.

Mimikyu

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Spocker

This is a really handy app for scanning docs/receipts on your phone and saving them as PDFs. Automatically syncs to your cloud storage too (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc)

https://scanbot.io/en/index.html

Mimikyu

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_Tombstone_

Thermal ink. Heat them up.

Though what sorta warranties are they that they're outlasting the receipt??

timetogo

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

Thermal ink. Heat them up.

Though what sorta warranties are they that they're outlasting the receipt??

I've a voucher from power city printed on receipt paper last July. It's barely readable now. Have to use it.

Anyway warranties normally only last a year or two. Your statutory rights could be longer. You'd need a receipt for those too.

slimjimmc

timetogo wrote: »

I've a voucher from power city printed on receipt paper last July. It's barely readable now. Have to use it.

Anyway warranties normally only last a year or two. Your statutory rights could be longer. You'd need a receipt for those too.

Other proofs of purchase are valid too so a receipt is often only required where you paid in cash; but it's no harm keeping a copy.

timetogo

slimjimmc wrote: »

Other proofs of purchase are valid too so a receipt is often only required where you paid in cash; but it's no harm keeping a copy.

Yeah I know but receipt is always handiest. Who wants to be rooting through bank statements from years ago.

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timetogo wrote: »

I've a voucher from power city printed on receipt paper last July. It's barely readable now. Have to use it.

Anyway warranties normally only last a year or two. Your statutory rights could be longer. You'd need a receipt for those too.

Power city are great at emailing a copy of a receipt once its recorded on their system against your phone number.

If it's a big item a receipt isn't often necessary going back to the shop as a record is kept of the sale.

my3cents

timetogo wrote: »

I've a voucher from power city printed on receipt paper last July. It's barely readable now. Have to use it.

Anyway warranties normally only last a year or two. Your statutory rights could be longer. You'd need a receipt for those too.

Aldi and Lidl stuff normally has a 3 year warantee and you need the receipt. Both use thermal paper but I always write the item details and date on the receipt and keep it with the instructions booklet. I've used the 3 year warantee from them a couple of times and always got a straight refund once with a receipt I couldn't read.

Remind Me Tomorrow

Spocker wrote: »

This is a really handy app for scanning docs/receipts on your phone and saving them as PDFs. Automatically syncs to your cloud storage too (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc)

https://scanbot.io/en/index.html

Office lens is a good one too.

And if you upload your images to OneDrive, it will index the text within the image so you can easily search for items. If you don't mind big brother seeing your purchase history that is. But lets face it they have all that anyway!

It works for any image containing text. For example If you have a photo with a street sign visible it will return that image when you search for the street name.

Vic_08

If you have a receipt that has completely faded it can often be resurrected by applying heat. The whole receipt will go black apart from the original text which should stay lighter.