Receipt Pal: Rewards & Scanner 17+

This app is a great one to get gift cards free. They do have a limit on dates receipts can be excepted, so you really need to log your daily receipts on the same day you get them. You can only get a total of 300 points per week for filling each of the cards they issue weekly. Plus you get extra points on top of each card of 100 for completing a card. But don’t stop scanning in cause those will give you a ticket to try and win the $250. drawing. Each weekly set of cards runs from Sunday through Saturday. If you can’t scan a grand total of 12 receipts in one week, they will bump your incomplete cards to the following new week. Say you only scan 7 receipts in a week, the next week you will have to scan the normal 12 plus the other 5 from the previous week. It can get strenuous and nerve racking especially if you get sick! But it is possible if you watch the dates of acceptable receipts and scan them in the same day. It’s taken me 6 months to be able to cash out at just $45. so I’d really like to see more points per week given.

I used to use this app to log every receipt. The rewards are very small and it’s hard to accumulate enough points to earn anything decent. But having an easily accessible way to find older receipts made this app worth its trouble, worth the trouble until now. They added the ability to scan the phone for e-receipts. Sounds great in theory, but they automate the system to scan your phone each time you open the app. This takes several minutes and is way beyond intrusive and annoying! Want to just quickly scan in a receipt? Forget it! It’s not happeninYg! You do not have the option to choose whether to scan the entire phone or not. It happens as soon as you open the app. Scanning a simple receipt is now an event! Make sure you set aside 5 minutes or more each time you want to scan a single receipt. Think saving a small amount of receipts to scan in all at once will make it easier? Good luck! Most likely they will no longer be valid! They use to allow this and give you a 2-3 weeks to scan. Now they will only allow you to scan in receipts that are 3-4 days old, so you have to do it more frequently and each time requires a significant amount of time. The rewards are small and no longer worth the effort and time involved. I am finished with Receipt Pal and will no longer give these leaches so much of my time.

I’ve been using RecieptPal for a while and when I need to contact the support reps, they are extremely rude. I’ve had one of the worst experiences with a rep who was very unhelpful and even went so far as to close my request before it was even resolved because he couldn’t find the answers. If the app works for you great, but if you find your self with any issues, good luck trying to get a clear response. I’m not sure if they outsource their workers but they either need more training or better customer service. They don’t need inputs that blatantly call me an “idiot” when I called them out with verifiable inputs. Oh additionally, not every receipt will be accepted even if you have all the criteria… I had the correct date range, the name of the merchant (including all the necessary information), and the amount paid but ReceiptPal still didn’t accept it. I escalated it to their customer service and that’s where this entire issue occurred. The idea is great to save receipts and get points for them but they’ll probably accept 3 out of the 10 you submit with valid fields which means your stuck using the app more than necessary. Im assuming they collect your receipts any way but won’t give you a reward so they can “pocket” the earnings on their end. I hope you have better luck with them than I have.