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Snap the receipt at the counter; the job and the tax are done.

Every lost receipt is a cost you paid twice: once at the counter and again when you could not reclaim the tax or bill it to the client. Estiquik's receipt capture is built for the truck, not the office. Photograph the receipt on your phone the moment it is in your hand, type the total, pick the job, and it is filed — compressed to a fraction of a photo, uploaded when you have signal, with the tax split out and the expense already counted against the job's margin.

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✓ No card to start✓ Works offline, uploads later✓ Tax split out for the accountant

The Estiquik Expenses page: a list of job expenses with receipt thumbnails, subtotal and tax per line, and the edit panel with Take photo and Add files buttons, vendor, total, HST rate, category, payment method, client, estimate and the billable switch

Expenses with receipts attached, in the live demo

Truck, counter, tax season

What receipt capture does

A receipt is a photo, an amount and a job. Everything else — the tax, the category, the report — falls out of those three.

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Take photo, at the counter

Press Take photo and the phone camera opens; or Add files for JPEG, PNG, HEIC or PDF, several at once. The receipt is attached to the expense the moment you save.

Click any receipt to view or download it

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Compressed before it leaves the phone

A 3 MB phone photo lands at about 200 KB: receipts are high-contrast paper, and past 1,200 pixels wide you are only storing texture. The original never leaves the device.

~200 KB, not 3 MB

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Poor signal? It waits

No coverage in the basement or the lumber yard. Uploads queue on the device and send themselves when you are back online — including after the page is closed and reopened.

Offline queue, no lost receipts

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Type the total; the tax splits itself

Type what you paid and the subtotal and tax fill in at your province's or state's rate. Tax-exempt items, tips, a different rate — edit the subtotal or tax and the total stays as entered.

HST 13% on an Ontario receipt, automatically

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Job, client, category, method, billable

Link the estimate or the client so the expense counts against that job. Pick a category — materials, tools and equipment, subcontractors, fuel, permits, disposal, meals, insurance, your own — and how it was paid, and tick Billable if it passes through to the client.

See job costing →

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A report the accountant asked for

By category, client, month or payment method: before tax, tax and total, with the tax paid shown as potentially reclaimable, the billable total, and how many expenses carry a receipt. Export CSV or print.

Export CSV · Print

Counter to margin

How a receipt becomes a number on the job

Under a minute at the counter. The rest happens on its own.

STEP 1

Snap

On the Expenses page, New expense, Take photo. Or add the PDF the supplier emailed. The photo compresses on the phone; if there is no signal it waits.

STEP 2

Type the total

Vendor, date, the total from the receipt. Subtotal and tax fill in at your region's rate; correct them if the receipt differs. Pick the currency if you buy across the border.

STEP 3

File it

Category, payment method, the client and the estimate it belongs to, Billable if the client pays for it, a note if the receipt will not explain itself in April. Save.

STEP 4

It is counted

The expense appears in the job's spent total on job costing the same minute, in the report under its category and month, and in the tax paid figure your accountant reclaims.

Receipts are stored privately with your account — nothing in the receipt store is world-readable — under a 1 MB cap per file that the compression keeps you well inside. Expenses stay in Estiquik: the QuickBooks sync moves clients, invoices and payments, not expenses.

The report

What the expense report shows

One page, filtered by period, client, category and billable, with the five numbers a small contractor's bookkeeper wants first.

Total spent and before taxEvery expense in the period, tax included, and the subtotal that is what the goods and work actually cost.

Tax paidHST, GST, PST or state tax across the period, shown as potentially reclaimable — check with your accountant. This is the number a lost receipt takes with it.

Billable to clientsThe pass-through total: what you have spent on clients' behalf and should be recovering on invoices.

With receiptsHow many expenses in the period carry an attached receipt, so the ones without one get chased before year end.

Contractor expense tracking pricing

What it costs next to the apps that gate expenses

Receipt capture, expenses and the report are on Pro, with job costing. Vendor facts below were read from their own pricing pages on 3 September 2026, in US dollars.

Product	Monthly	What that buys
Estiquik Pro	$29.99	CA$34.99 · receipt capture, expenses and reports, job costing, plan takeoff, change orders, contracts, QuickBooks. Annual $299.99 / CA$349.99.
Jobber	Connect, $139	Expenses and receipts start on Connect at $139 for one user; Core at $49 does not include them.
Joist	Pro, $17	Expenses on Pro and up; no estimate-vs-actual job costing page to land them on.
A standalone receipt app	Separate subscription	Expensify, Dext and similar file the receipt for the books but not against the job — the margin per job stays in a spreadsheet.

The Jobber and Joist comparison pages carry the full tier tables and their dates.

Where it stops

What receipt capture in Estiquik is

Pick Estiquik if you…

Lose receipts between the counter and the officeThe photo is taken when the paper is in your hand, and the tax is recorded then.
Want the receipt against the job, not just in the booksLinked to the estimate, it is in that job's margin the same minute.
Bill materials through to the clientTick Billable and the report totals what you should be recovering on invoices.
Work where there is no signalBasements, lumber yards, rural sites. The queue sends when you surface.

Pick a bookkeeping or expense suite if you need…

OCR that reads the receipt for youEstiquik does not read the total off the photo; you type it. It splits the tax and files the receipt, it does not transcribe it.
Bank and card feedsNo connection to your bank or corporate cards. Expenses are entered, not imported.
Mileage, per-diems and employee reimbursementFuel is a category; mileage tracking, per-diems and a reimbursement workflow are not.
Expenses pushed into QuickBooksThe sync carries clients, invoices and payments. Bills and expenses are entered in QuickBooks as you do now, with the CSV export as the source.
Timesheets and labour costLabour is a cost on the job only if you enter it as an expense or a sub's invoice.

A phone camera, a compressed upload that survives bad signal, and an expense record that knows which job it belongs to and how much of it was tax. It exists so the receipt is captured the day you spent the money and so job costing and the tax figure are right without a Sunday of data entry. It is deliberately not an accounting system: the report and the CSV are what you hand to one.

Receipt capture, expenses and the report need Pro, with job costing on the same plan.

Before you ask

Questions contractors ask

Can I track job expenses and receipts?

Yes, on Pro. Photograph receipts on site — they compress on your phone before upload — and attach them to expense records tied to a client, estimate or invoice, with the tax carried as its own figure and a billable flag for pass-through costs. Reports group them by category, client, month or payment method.

Does it read the receipt automatically?

No. You type the total from the receipt and the subtotal and tax fill in at your region's rate; you can correct either. Estiquik files and splits the receipt, it does not OCR it — that keeps it accurate on the crumpled, faded receipts real jobs produce.

What happens if I have no signal?

The photo is compressed on the device and queued. It uploads on its own when the connection returns, even if you closed the page in between, and the expense record you saved already points at it.

How big are the uploads?

A typical phone photo lands around 200 KB after compression — 1,200 pixels wide is plenty for a receipt. There is a 1 MB cap per file that you will not normally reach. PDFs are stored as sent.

Which tax does it track?

Whatever your region's is: HST, GST plus PST or QST in Canada, state sales tax in the US, with the rate pre-filled from your account and editable per expense. The report totals the tax paid in the period as potentially reclaimable — confirm the treatment with your accountant; this is not tax advice.

Does it sync to QuickBooks?

Not the expenses. The QuickBooks Online sync moves clients, invoices and payments. Export the expense report to CSV for the books.

Which plan is receipt capture on?

Pro, at $29.99 a month or $299.99 a year (CA$34.99 / CA$349.99), with job costing, the expense report, plan takeoff, change orders, contracts and QuickBooks. The 14-day trial is Pro and needs no card.