Receipts for days can make you some $$$ – My Top Apps to Save via Receipts

Here are some apps scanning receipts to save some money that can get you some cash back $$$ on items you are probably buying anyways. Or I wouldn’t recommend running out and getting something random you don’t want because between all these apps there are plenty of options.

Now lets save some money with apps scanning receipts

1. Ibotta

• Available: Easy via my referral link (which gives you an extra $10 after your first rebate) here: https://ibotta.com/r/nvwmboe. 
  • Will allow you to download the app either on the App Store or Google Play. If you do that directly, you can enter in my code: nvwmboe.
• Payout: Pays out via PayPal once your balance hits $20.
• The rundown: Basically you get cash-back on certain items and goods based on the store (or app) and the items they are offering cash back for.
  • The stores (mainly mobile and specialty stores that are being added on recently) change but so do the discounts. If you save one though, you may still be able to use it when it leaves the main home page (not for long though).
  • Scanning through the app to fine discounts as you shop in a store is a bit annoying.  I like to save ones I think I want before I go – just saving deals that interest me.
  • After you purchase: you need to scan the receipt and UPC code of the product to get your cash back. (For a couple of stores the receipt is enough which is great – Whole Foods is one)
• Cash back is credited to your account pretty quick, except Amazon took a month and a half for me.
• Bonuses (they vary all the time): Pay attention to the bonuses! Sometimes I have gotten an extra few dollars for using a mobile app that already gave me a few dollars off so it was almost free. They can be great and really add up.
• Scanning receipts and bar codes isn’t super fun but mobile things you don’t have to. I’m over $150 while admittedly slacking a bit lately so it adds up. 

2. Fetch Rewards

• Available: App is on the App Store and on Google Play.
• Referral Code: get 2,000 start up points if you use my code CJ1GJ when you sign up. 
• Run down: for this app, you just have to scan your receipt but you only get rewards if it’s a participating brand on there (or sometimes certain products).
  • They also list some bonuses that give way higher rewards for certain products, which change periodically.
  • Sometimes you have to verify an item which can be done scanning the UPC code but say you ate it already (it happens, I mean its food) you can also search for it which is great and makes things easier.
  • Lately they have also awarded points just for scanning receipts (even if no qualifying items/brands are on there)
  • SCAN WITHIN 14 DAYS OF THE RECEIPT.
• Rewards: points that can be exchanged for cards, including PayPal. Takes time since honestly, I feel like I would spend too much time trying to find everything they even accept. (brands, products, etc. – sometimes finding a product within a listed brand is hard if its a receipt you have to correct)
• Verdict: one of my favorites because it scans the receipts for you to find possible rewards vs searching through yourself so easy breazy. Even if the points take long to add up, you can and done. Maybe have to search for a product (which by the way if you verify something you get an extra 25 points). So pretty easy!
  • although 14 day time limit makes it harder.

3. ReceiptPal [Updated 2019]

• Available: on the App Store and Google Play.
• All about the receipts here so take a snap and get points. Takes time to get anywhere though. Does not limit to them being any certain item (like iBotta, Fetch Rewards, Checkout51 and some others). It just has to be a receipt. 
  • Also allows for e-receipts. When you connect your email, you get 300 bonus points.
• Updates:
  • Sweepstakes
    • Each 4 receipts submitted fills 1 card. For each card, you get entered into sweepstakes (3 per week).
    • You also get bonus games for each filled card. The prize can be sweepstakes entries or points.
  • Referral Program
    • Offerred from time to time. When it is, it will show up in the app under “Refer A Friend.” As of November 2019, this is not available.
    • When available, both you and your referred friend can get extra points.
    • The referred person has to be new to ReceiptPal and there is a limit of 25 referrals per calendar month.
• Points: 4 receipts = 100 points.
• Rewards Exchange points for gift cards which include amazon gift cards among others. Some are small amounts so in theory you can cash out quick but I have not been able to.
• TIME TO SUBMIT: you have to scan the receipts for THAT week, which ends on Sunday. So it is not a week to scan, it is however much time is left in that calendar week. This can be annoying.. They also reject a lot for quality so if you throw them away you can lose points and I won’t suggest holding onto receipts for this one.
• Time to get enough points to get rewards? A lot…
• Nice that it can be any receipt for any product, but the time constraint, high rejection rate, time it takes to accumulate points, etc., makes this one a little annoying unless you are very organized.

4. Checkout51

• Available: App is on the App Store and Google Play.
• I don’t recommend but see it everywhere. I have had it installed for a while and painfully search through long lists of random items and then see one I may get and get all excited but nope, only available at some store far from me.
• The searching can be limited by stores (although it is not as intuitive as iBotta) but I still find this app painful. Usually it is scrolling through TONS of items, finding them, but then it says deal is only for one specific store that you do not live by. I rarely see items I get on here. 
• Can cash out when you hit $20. I am at a whopping $0. 

5. ReceiptHog

• Been on the waiting list for 6 months. So if I ever get to be allowed to let them eat my receipts well ok…
• this has already been added to my post on wasting time. I know some like it but well 6 months….
• However, if you want to give it a go, it is on the App Store and Google Play.

6. MobiSave

• Never got into this because I never saw any deal relevant for me but hey you may have better luck.
• Available: App is on the App Store and Google Play.

7. BerryCart

• Available: App is on the App Store and Google Play.
• Again not much luck finding deals here for my stores and items but it’s aimed towards more organic places (which I do shop at but still you may have different luck)

8. NCPMobile

• Available: App is on the App Store and Google Play.
• Interesting app that does want you to scan weekly and honestly I have not figured out the rewards system but they sent me a reusable shopping bag in the mail for my 3 month anniversary and free gifts get a thumbs up from me.
• I’ll rate this as peculiar. Reward system is confusing/very unclear yet I just randomly receive a package in the mail. Not going to turn down free things though!
• However, NOTE that it will deactivate your account if you do not use it for some time. They also will call you reminding you to use it. The points I had earned did not seem to be taking me far to make it worth my time.
• It has surveys as well which reward more points, but I still did not seem to be getting many. It was difficult to figure out the point system for scanning items and this process was more cumbersome – scan each item individually, enter price, then enter total for that trip and other details.