Snap the receipt. Get back to work.
Open Grain AI chat, point your phone camera at a receipt, and tap send. The AI extracts the vendor, total, line items, and tax, then asks which job to attribute the cost to. The receipt becomes a real expense linked to a real job in the time it took you to walk to the truck.
The flow
Photo a receipt, store receipt, gas pump receipt, lumber-yard receipt, directly inside Grain AI chat. The image is uploaded, parsed, and turned into a structured expense record without any typing on your part.
If the AI is uncertain about which job a receipt belongs to, it asks: "Was this for the Henderson kitchen, the Smith deck, or something else?" One reply, the receipt is filed.
- Photo input lives inside the existing Grain AI chat, same UX as voice and text.
- Auto-extracted: vendor name, total, line items (when legible), tax, date.
- AI proposes a job match based on recent activity; you confirm or correct.
- Receipt image is stored alongside the structured record, for audit, for warranty, for the customer.
- Feeds the per-job P&L immediately.
What you get from a scanned receipt
Every receipt becomes a queryable record, not a curling photo in the truck console. Search receipts by vendor, by job, by date range, by amount. Export them at year-end for the accountant or the IRS.
Because the receipt is linked to a job, the cost flows into that job's P&L the same minute the receipt is logged. You see margin in real time, not at month-end when you're piecing together photos.
- Searchable by vendor, job, date range, or amount.
- Original photo retained for audit + warranty proof.
- Auto-categorized expense type (materials, fuel, tools, subcontractor cost).
- Roll-up reports for tax season.
- P&L impact is real-time, no end-of-month reconciliation.
Why this is on Pro
Photo input through the chat surface is the Pro-tier capability, Free chat is text + voice only, no photo upload. The reason is simple: image extraction with the smarter model is the heaviest cost-per-message in the system, and we'd rather price the feature honestly than dilute the AI quality across both tiers.
Pro is $29/month and includes unlimited photo input, unlimited chat turns, and the smarter Sonnet model. The math: a single trade business that scans 30 receipts a month at 5 minutes saved each is recouping the subscription many times over before the year ends.
Available on Pro, $29/mo.
Ready to try Receipt Scanning?
Open Grain AI chat, point your phone camera at a receipt, and tap send. The AI extracts the vendor, total, line items, and tax, then asks which job to attribute the cost to. The receipt becomes a real expense linked to a real job in the time it took you to walk to the truck.