MYOB Capture – Have we finally discovered a cure to shoebox bookkeeping?

This next-gen solution to an age-old problem could do away with the issue of shoebox bookkeeping for good. Introducing MYOB Capture for Essentials.

It’s that time of year once again.

As the days reach their shortest, accountants and the ATO alike ramp up their activity in a bid to process annual tax lodgements. In turn, small business owners and their bookkeepers go into a frenzy of last-minute recordkeeping.

And unless the business owner has been taking photos or scans of their work-related receipts, transcribing the details of the purchases and filing all this away in a shareable database, then there’s probably a lot of work to be done.

This is the problem presented by ‘shoebox’ bookkeeping – the tried, tested and traditionalist’s method to small business recordkeeping. Worse, when it comes time to collate and compile all that information into a digital format, errors inevitably occur that cause the whole operation to take even longer than expected.

The end result? Wasted time and, more importantly, wasted money.

Capture receipts in a snap

Worse still than the shoebox is the tradesperson’s glovebox.

Actually, it’s probably unfair to single out tradies in this case, as there are plenty of other sole traders and small business owners with a stockpile of faded thermal paper tucked away in their car. Depending on how harsh the weather has been and how long those receipts have been there, we may never uncover the secrets they once held.

But that means those individuals are likely giving up a significant amount of money in lost deductions.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could just take a photo of your receipt on the phone and have it immediately appear in your online accounting software, or better yet, your bookkeeper’s?

Well that’s exactly what the MYOB Capture app sets out to achieve and, in a first for the brand, the new tool is available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play, that’s exactly what it does.

Unlike other receipt capture software, the MYOB Capture app not only takes an image of your receipt, it digitally scans the document to grab the information presented and sends it to your MYOB Essentials account, automatically matching it against the corresponding payment.

Scan and send. A simple, two-step process to follow any work-related purchase that will save you hours of frustrating bookwork at tax time.

Better yet, you can finally say goodbye to that fluttering, flammable flotsam taking up space in your filing cabinet (or shoebox, or glovebox).

Are you ready to make your EOFY simpler and more stress-free? The MYOB Capture app is included as part of an MYOB Essentials subscription, so take out a FREE trial today.