NGKUR: Anybody use a NEAT Scanner?

[mlgnumbers]

MH and I are considering purchasing a NEAT Scanner for our home and business. I constantly feel as though I'm drowning in a sea of paper and receipts, desperately trying to keep them organized and filed so I can easily access them at reimbursement and tax time. All the marketing and advertising for the NEAT scanners lead me to believe I could save a ton of time using their scanner and system, but I'm looking for real people reviews. $500 is a whole lotta cash to put down on a scanner.

So, do you use it? Have you used it in the past? Reviews?

[madamewaffles]

Feb 4, 2015 9:52:46 GMT -5 mlgnumbers said:

MH and I are considering purchasing a NEAT Scanner for our home and business. I constantly feel as though I'm drowning in a sea of paper and receipts, desperately trying to keep them organized and filed so I can easily access them at reimbursement and tax time. All the marketing and advertising for the NEAT scanners lead me to believe I could save a ton of time using their scanner and system, but I'm looking for real people reviews. $500 is a whole lotta cash to put down on a scanner.

So, do you use it? Have you used it in the past? Reviews?

I have both the document scanner and the stick scanner. I much prefer the document scanner. You can put a stack of 20 receipts or sheets of paper at a time, and it does double sided scanning so I love that feature. The interface of the software is pretty user friendly and they have awesome tech support if you're stumped.

ETA: I use this every day at work to process expenses for 5 traveling salesmen. I've had it for 4 years and it shows no signs of slowing down!

[mlgnumbers]

Thank you, madamewaffles! That's exactly what I was hoping to hear.

Do you guys use their cloud system or do you keep it local on your own computers?

[madamewaffles]

Feb 4, 2015 11:24:56 GMT -5 mlgnumbers said:

Thank you, madamewaffles! That's exactly what I was hoping to hear.

Do you guys use their cloud system or do you keep it local on your own computers?

I used the trial. I thought it was cool but found it wasn't really useful for me since I do all the scanning in one place and I have remote access to my work desktop from my laptop at home so it didn't really pay to fork over cash for it.

My mom uses the Neat system at home and loves that she can use her iPhone to take pics of receipts right where she is and the cloud takes care of the rest for her so I can see for a home user or a small business owner the usefulness there!

[mom2boxers]

It is nice that you can run a report and it tallies and totals everything by category and you've got a record of your receipts so you don't have to worry about ink fading on hard copies.

You can also go to Bed Bath and Beyond and some carry it in-store and you can use a 20% off coupon. If you need the MAC version, they have to order it for you there, but they'll let you use the coupon. I think we negotiated with the sales person and they waived the shipping charge. Or you could always try the email coupons and see if that works. It saves some $$ on the initial investment.

[mlgnumbers]

Feb 4, 2015 15:36:54 GMT -5 mom2boxers said:

It is nice that you can run a report and it tallies and totals everything by category and you've got a record of your receipts so you don't have to worry about ink fading on hard copies.

You can also go to Bed Bath and Beyond and some carry it in-store and you can use a 20% off coupon. If you need the MAC version, they have to order it for you there, but they'll let you use the coupon. I think we negotiated with the sales person and they waived the shipping charge. Or you could always try the email coupons and see if that works. It saves some $$ on the initial investment.

That's excellent advice! Thank you!