For truck drivers
Fuel, scale tickets, lumper fees, tolls. Photograph each one when you get it and it is kept — readable in April, when the paper version won't be.
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Android only. iPhone version in development.
What you're carrying
The big one, and the one that fades fastest
Weigh station slips, thermal paper, illegible by spring
Cash out of pocket, hardest to prove later
Small individually, thousands annually
The receipts you actually keep — sometimes
The ones nobody bothers with
Every one of those is money you already spent. The only question is whether you can still prove it eleven months from now.
What goes wrong
Fuel receipts, scale tickets, and truck stop slips are nearly all thermal paper. Heat kills it, and a cab in July gets hotter than anywhere else that paper will ever sit. A receipt from a run in August can be blank by the time anyone looks at it.
A photograph taken the day you got it does not fade. That is the entire premise of this app.
How it works
One hand, engine running, before you climb back in.
Vendor, date, and total pulled off the paper. No typing.
Filed and searchable. The paper can go out the window.
Why a photo counts
You don't have to keep the paper. The IRS has accepted electronic records since 1997, as long as the copies meet a few basic conditions.
Source: IRS Rev. Proc. 97-22, Recordkeeping — Electronic Storage Systems. CabSnap is a recordkeeping tool, not a tax advisor.
Questions
Yes. Under Rev. Proc. 97-22 the IRS accepts electronic copies of paper records, provided the image is legible, matches the original, can be printed on request, and is stored securely. This is a recordkeeping answer, not tax advice — talk to your tax preparer about your own situation.
It reads what is still legible. Nothing reads ink that is already gone, which is exactly why the receipt needs photographing while it is fresh rather than in April. A photo taken today stays readable forever.
No. CabSnap captures and keeps receipts, and that is the whole job. If you need mileage tracking you will want a separate app for it.
Any paper you can photograph. The app captures the image and reads what it can from it. Even where the extracted data is incomplete, the photo itself is preserved as your record.
The photo is captured on your phone when you take it. Reliable capture in dead zones is exactly the situation this needs to survive, so if you hit a case where it does not behave, email admin@getcabsnap.com and tell us.
Not yet — CabSnap is Android only. An iPhone version is in development. There's no release date I can promise you yet. More on the iPhone version
Free to download.
Android only. iPhone version in development.