Turn a pile of receipts into a spreadsheet

Drop in a batch of receipts, scans or phone snaps. Orderly reads each one, checks that the numbers add up, shows you anything worth a second look, and gives you an Excel file, CSV or JSON. Twenty pages a month are free and no card is needed.

The reading is the easy part. Any modern tool can pull a total off a receipt. The part that decides whether this saves you an afternoon or costs you one is whether you can rely on what it read without going back to the paper — and that is the part most tools leave to you.

Every document is checked before you trust it

Orderly does arithmetic on every document, because arithmetic cannot be confidently wrong the way a reading can.

✓ Line items have to add up to the total. If the items listed do not sum to the total printed on the page, something was misread. Orderly does that addition on every document and tells you the difference in cents, so you know whether it is rounding or a real error.

✓ Tax is checked against the total. On a tax-inclusive document, tax can never be more than the rate allows. Anything above that is arithmetically impossible, so one of the two figures was misread. Below it is normal, because most baskets mix taxable and exempt items.

✓ Dates that could go either way are marked. 05/06 is the fifth of June in some countries and the sixth of May in others, and the page almost never says which. You tell Orderly which convention your documents use, and it reads every date that way.

✓ The original sits beside the data. Every extracted field is shown next to the document it came from. Checking a figure means glancing right, not opening a folder and finding the file.

✓ Duplicates in the same batch are caught. If the same vendor, date and amount appears twice in one upload, both are marked.

✓ Correct one figure and everything re-checks. Fix a misread total and the arithmetic runs again as you type. You watch it go green instead of re-uploading and hoping.

Very long reference numbers are marked for a look rather than checked, because no arithmetic can confirm them.

Why not just use ChatGPT or Claude?

The same applies to Gemini, Copilot, or whichever one you have open. You can, and for a handful of receipts you should — if that is the whole job, save your money.

It stops working at volume, and it stops for reasons that are not obvious until you are an hour in.

The checking is not done by AI

This is the part that matters. Orderly uses a model to read the page, then checks the result with ordinary arithmetic in code. Adding six line items and comparing them against a total is a calculation, not an opinion, and it gives the same answer every time.

You can ask a chat to check its own totals. It will answer confidently, using the same process that produced the numbers in the first place. That is not a check, it is a second guess.

The limits arrive quickly

Chat tools cap how many images fit in one conversation and how many you can send in a few hours. Two hundred receipts is not one upload. It is an afternoon of splitting the pile, waiting out cooldowns, and keeping track of which ones you have already done — and losing your place is easy, because nothing is keeping the list but you.

Ask twice, get two answers

Not because it is broken, but because a conversation is not a form. Column names drift, fields appear and vanish, dates come back written differently. Orderly decides the shape before it reads anything, so this month's export lines up with last month's and you can paste them into the same sheet.

A folder of clients comes out as a workbook of clients

Drop in a folder per client and you get one sheet per client, with real date cells that sort properly rather than text that looks like a date. Not a table you copy out of a conversation and tidy up by hand.

The difference is whether you spend the afternoon.

What comes out

Format	What you get
Excel (.xlsx)	Real date cells, sized columns, one sheet per client folder
CSV	Plain and unambiguous, ISO dates, safe to open anywhere
JSON	Full structure including every line item, for anything downstream
Zip	One CSV per folder, mirroring the structure you uploaded

Fields include the vendor, date, document number, subtotal, tax, total, currency and every line item, plus whether the arithmetic checked out.

Try it on your own receipts

Twenty pages a month, free, no card. That is enough to run a real batch of your own paperwork and see whether the checking earns its place.

Start with your own files

Common questions

What can it read?

Phone snaps, scans and PDFs. Receipts and invoices share one template, and bank statements have their own. Files are deleted automatically 30 days after upload.

Does it work on handwriting?

Sometimes, and it tells you when a document looked handwritten so you know to check it rather than assuming. Printed documents are far more reliable.

What if a number is wrong?

Fix it in the review screen and the checks run again immediately. Nothing is auto-rejected and nothing is silently corrected — the point is that you decide, with the original in front of you.

How much does it cost?

Free for 20 pages a month. Paid plans run from $19 to $99 USD a month by volume, and there is a $25 one-off pack of 200 pages that never expires for a job that will not come round again. Full pricing.