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Receipts are proof. They explain what a purchase was for and give your accountant support for the expense. Every receipt answers one question: did the money leave a connected account, or did someone pay out of their own pocket?

Example

You buy materials at a hardware store on the business card. The bank feed shows the card charge; the receipt shows the materials, tax, and project. Equated connects the two so the expense is supported. Your co-founder buys bar furniture on her personal card. No bank charge will ever appear, because the company’s account never moved. Equated records the receipt as an expense the company owes her, so the purchase and its tax reach the books and her balance says what she is owed. A refund receipt (a return or a credit) records the same way with the sign flipped, so what the company owes her falls by what came back.

Two ways a receipt reaches the books

1

Receipt lands in the inbox

Upload the receipt, email it to accounting@equated.co, or sync it in.
2

Resolve it

Equated reads the card digits on the receipt and offers the likely route: Match when the card belongs to a connected account, Record expense when it does not or no card is printed. The other route is one click away.
3

Match: link the receipt

Pick the transaction it explains. The receipt is now linked to that charge as its proof, and if it has useful line items Equated can use them to improve the charge’s accounting entry.
4

Record expense: post it against whoever paid

Choose who paid (a Due to Owner or Shareholder Loan account). Equated shows the entry it will write, expense lines and tax against that account, and posts it when you confirm. Undo is one click.

Why it matters

Matched receipts make month-end faster. Fewer charges need a second look when you review the statement. Recorded receipts are the only way an owner-funded purchase reaches the books at all. Without them the expense and its recoverable tax are missing, and the owner’s balance reads as if the company were owed money it is not.