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Add the bank amount for a foreign receipt while it's still being read

  • iPhone
  • Android
  • Web

On iPhone, you can now enter what your bank charged for a foreign receipt before the scan finishes. Quenta for Android 0.1.0 is on Google Play, and both apps get a Today button in the date picker and clearer Email in settings.

Available inQuenta for iPhone 0.1.3 on the App StoreQuenta for Android 0.1.0 on Google PlayWeb app, from 31 October

Add the bank amount before the scan finishes

  • iPhone

A receipt that is still uploading or being read now shows Foreign receipt? Add bank amount in your receipts list.

  1. Tap Foreign receipt? Add bank amount to open Post to.
  2. Enter the amount from your bank notification. The field is labelled with your bank account's currency, for example Amount charged (GBP).
  3. Tap Save.

The row then shows the figure, for example Bank amount: GBP 12.34. Quenta still reads the original amount and currency from the receipt, keeps them separate and puts them on the Xero transaction. If the receipt turns out to be in the same currency as your bank amount and the two don't match, it goes to Review so you can check it. Neither figure is changed for you.

The field is optional. You can still add or correct the charged amount after the scan, as before.

How to add the bank amount

Quenta for Android on Google Play

  • Android

Quenta for Android 0.1.0 is on Google Play.

Set today's date with one tap

  • iPhone
  • Android

The date picker has a Today button. Tap it to set the receipt date to today's date on your phone.

Choosing a receipt date

Quicker sharing from other apps

  • iPhone

When you share a receipt to Quenta, your saved companies and bank accounts appear in the share panel straight away, while the connection refreshes. Tap Done to save the receipt and close the panel. The upload continues when a connection is available.

Share a receipt from another app

Swipe to delete in Team receipts

  • iPhone

Admins can now swipe a receipt in Team receipts to delete it, with the same confirmation as My receipts. If the receipt has already been submitted to Xero, the confirmation warns you that the Xero transaction will be deleted too.

Team receipts

Email in settings, in two sections

  • iPhone
  • Android

Settings, Email in now shows sender setup in one section and the addresses your receipts are sent to in another, as it has on the web since October.

Email receipts into Quenta
Fixes and improvements
  • iPhone, Android

    Receipt default settings explain the difference between using your last-used company and bank account and a fixed choice.

  • Android

    Company admins can verify email domains for receipt forwarding.

  • Web

    Receipt files you drop, paste or pick before your company and bank account settings have loaded now wait, then upload to that company and bank account once the settings are ready, even if you move to another page in the app. They don't survive reloading or closing the tab.

Share receipts from other apps, and check them before they post

  • iPhone
  • Web

Quenta for iPhone 0.1.2 takes receipt photos and PDFs shared from other apps, lets you correct a receipt before it posts to Xero and can restore deleted receipts for up to two years. Since August, Quenta also reads totals and VAT more carefully, and Xero links back to each receipt.

Available inQuenta for iPhone 0.1.2 on the App StoreWeb app

Share receipts from other apps

  • iPhone

Share a receipt photo or PDF to Quenta from another app. Choose the company and bank account in the share panel, then tap Done.

Share a receipt from another app

Check a receipt before it posts to Xero

  • iPhone

Changing a field no longer submits the receipt straight away. Correct what you need, with total, net and VAT shown and editable together, then confirm and post to Xero. If you close a receipt with unsaved edits, Quenta asks before discarding them.

Review and fix receipts

Restore deleted receipts for up to two years

  • iPhone
  • Web

Open Settings, then Restore Deleted Receipts, to bring back a receipt deleted in the last two years. You can also restore it and resubmit it to Xero. Receipts you haven't deleted don't expire.

Save your preferred company and bank account

  • iPhone
  • Web

Choose the company and bank account new receipts should use. The preference is saved to your login, so it's the same on your phone and on the web.

Separate My receipts and Team receipts, with search and filters

  • iPhone

My receipts and Team receipts are now separate views. Search by merchant, description, category, company, bank account, submitter or amount. Filter by company, bank account, category and date, and by person in Team receipts, using a date preset or a custom range.

Team receipts

Totals and VAT, read more carefully

  • iPhone
  • Web

Quenta tells a receipt's final total apart from subtotals and VAT summaries that cover only part of it, and itemises the Xero transaction only when the breakdown is complete. A VAT summary that covers part of the receipt no longer sets off a total warning. A real conflict still asks you to check, with a message that says what disagrees.

Xero links back to the receipt

  • iPhone
  • Web

A transaction Quenta posts to Xero now carries a link back to its receipt in Quenta.

Verify an email domain for forwarded receipts

  • Web

Company admins can verify an email domain for receipt forwarding. In Settings, Email in now shows sender setup in one section and the addresses your receipts are sent to in another.

Email receipts into Quenta
Fixes and improvements
  • Web

    Editing a receipt no longer submits it. You confirm when it's ready.

  • Web

    Receipt default settings explain the difference between using your last-used company and bank account and a fixed choice.

  • iPhone, Web

    A receipt whose date could be read more than one way goes to Review instead of posting, and clearly read dates raise fewer warnings.

  • iPhone

    Swipe from the left edge to go back from receipt and settings screens.

  • iPhone

    Fixed a crash when swiping to delete a receipt.

  • iPhone

    Dates follow your phone's regional format.

  • iPhone

    Receipts saved offline stay visible in your list, with image previews.

  • iPhone

    Forms keep the field you're typing in above the keyboard.

  • iPhone

    View in Xero opens the matching bank transaction.

Tap to focus, and foreign receipts post on an estimate

  • iPhone
  • Web

Quenta for iPhone 0.1.1 adds tap to focus and shows both amounts on foreign receipts. Since the first release, foreign receipts post on an estimated amount, VAT can be edited line by line on the web and licences are sold by the seat.

Available inQuenta for iPhone 0.1.1 on the App StoreWeb app

Tap to focus

  • iPhone

Tap the receipt in the viewfinder and the camera focuses right there. It stays sharp up close too.

Photograph a paper receipt

Foreign receipts post on an estimate and show both amounts

  • iPhone
  • Web

When Quenta has an exchange rate for the currency, it no longer stops a foreign receipt to ask what your bank charged. It estimates the amount and posts it. Without a rate, the receipt still asks in Review. The receipt shows its own amount first and the amount charged to your account underneath, tagged estimated until you enter the real figure.

If Quenta reads the wrong currency, change it and Quenta reposts the receipt.

Foreign-currency receipts

See and edit the VAT

  • Web

A receipt shows Total, Net (before VAT) and VAT together, and you can edit each. Receipts with more than one VAT rate post to Xero as separate lines.

Seats and Billing & users

  • Web

Pro is now sold by the seat. Open Billing & users on the web to choose a plan and how many seats you need. Paid invoices are emailed to the payer and filed as receipts that don't use your scans.

Receipts deleted in Xero come back to Review

  • iPhone
  • Web

If a receipt's transaction is deleted in Xero, Quenta returns the receipt to Review, so you can repost it or dismiss it.

Resolve a Review item
Fixes and improvements
  • iPhone

    The camera no longer uploads a black photo.

  • iPhone

    A receipt saved offline says it's safe, and an upload in progress shows as a filling Uploading meter.

  • iPhone

    The Sign in with Xero button follows Xero's light theme.

  • iPhone, Web

    Your Xero history with a merchant helps choose the category, and a receipt still asks when the history isn't clear.

  • Web

    My receipts and Team receipts are separate tabs, and Team receipts can be searched and filtered, including by amount.

  • Web

    View in Xero opens the transaction itself, each receipt has a link you can share, and a date filter offers This month, Last month, Last 3 months, This year or a custom range.

  • Web

    Delete a receipt from the list or from the receipt itself, after one confirmation.

  • Web

    Dates follow your regional format, and View PDF opens a PDF receipt.

  • iPhone, Web

    On a receipt with split VAT, the zero-rated line uses Xero's Exempt Expenses where your organisation has it.

Quenta for iPhone: photograph a receipt and it posts to Xero

  • iPhone
  • Web

The first Quenta for iPhone release. Photograph or upload a receipt, and Quenta reads it and posts it to Xero with the image attached, asking only when something needs you.

Available inQuenta for iPhone 1.0 on the App StoreWeb app at app.quenta.so

Photograph a receipt and Quenta posts it to Xero

  • iPhone
  • Web

Sign in with Xero and connect your company. On iPhone, tap + and photograph the receipt, or import a photo, image file or PDF. On the web, upload the file.

Quenta reads the receipt and posts a bank transaction to Xero with the contact, a reference and the receipt image attached. Anything it isn't sure about goes to Review instead.

Scan a receipt

Review at the top, in red

  • iPhone
  • Web

Receipts that need you are pinned to the top in red, with the reason in plain words. Everything else is listed newest first. A Submitted receipt opens its transaction in Xero.

Resolve a Review item

Quenta remembers how you code a merchant

  • iPhone
  • Web

The first time Quenta meets a category, it asks which account to use and ranks its suggestions. Tick Remember this choice and the next receipt from that merchant is coded the same way.

How Quenta applies what it has learned

Change a receipt after it's submitted

  • iPhone

Open a Submitted receipt to recode it on the same Xero transaction, move it to another company or bank account, or delete it. If Xero refuses because the period is locked or the transaction is reconciled, Quenta tells you why.

Change a Submitted receipt

Receipts are saved on your phone first

  • iPhone

A capture is saved on your phone before anything is uploaded. With no connection it shows as Queued offline and uploads when you're back online.

When you are offline

Team receipts

  • iPhone
  • Web

Invite your team. Admins see team receipts according to their Xero role, and members who can only submit capture receipts for an admin to allocate a bank account.

Team receipts

Forward emailed receipts

  • iPhone
  • Web

Each company gets an email address. Forward a receipt to it and Quenta handles it like an upload.

Email receipts into Quenta

10 free receipts a month

  • iPhone
  • Web

Every organisation gets 10 free receipts a month. Pro is bought on the web, not through the App Store.

Fixes and improvements
  • iPhone, Web

    Choose the company with Submit to and the bank account with Paid from, and mark favourites in either list. Your top favourite becomes the default when you switch company.

  • iPhone, Web

    Search your receipts and filter by company, bank account or category.

  • iPhone, Web

    Departments map to Xero tracking categories, with a default department and a company-wide option to hide any of them.

  • iPhone, Web

    Admins can choose which bank accounts each member sees, and hide accounts for the whole company.

  • iPhone

    Several captures can upload at once, and swipe to delete removes a receipt.

  • iPhone

    A scan that fails gets a Retry button in Review.

  • iPhone

    Quenta sends push notifications, and keeps them silent while the app is open.

  • iPhone, Web

    Xero errors are explained in plain words, and a receipt shows exactly what was posted.