Photograph a receipt and HiBill reads it, then drafts the transaction for you.
What it extracts
Title — a short name for the expense
Total — the amount actually charged
Currency — read from the receipt itself, not your account default
Date — from the receipt
Line items — individual products, quantities and prices
Tax, tip and service fee — pulled out separately, not mixed in with the items
Currency detection matters most when travelling, which is exactly when you are least likely to notice a €48 dinner logged as $48.
Tax and tip being separate matters too: they become shared costs that spread across everyone, rather than a mystery line somebody has to claim.
It always creates a draft
A scan never saves a transaction on its own. It opens the normal form, filled in, with everything editable. You check it and save.
This is deliberate. A draft you correct costs five seconds; a wrong number saved silently becomes a wrong balance with a friend that nobody catches for a month. You are the only one who knows whether the number on the paper is the number you care about.
Monthly limits
Scanning has a real per-scan cost, so it is metered:
Plan | Scans per month |
|---|---|
Free | 5 |
Pro | 100 |
Ultra | 500 |
The count resets at the start of each calendar month. Free tier's five is meant to cover the cases where scanning genuinely wins — the long restaurant bill, the big supermarket run. Typing in a coffee is faster than photographing it.
Getting a good scan
Receipts are a difficult format — faded thermal paper, creases, several competing totals. To help:
Flatten it. Creases across the total are the most common failure.
Get the whole receipt in frame, including the bottom where the total usually is.
Shoot straight down, not at an angle.
Decent light. Restaurant-table lighting is the usual culprit.
If it gets something wrong
Fix it in the draft before saving — everything is editable. Common ones:
Wrong total. Receipts often print subtotal, total, and cash tendered near each other. Check the figure matches what was charged.
Ambiguous date.
03/04/2026is two different days depending on the country that printed it.A missed line item, particularly where a long product name wrapped onto two lines.
What to do next
Two combinations that work well:
Scan then itemize. Line items come out separated with their quantities, so assigning them to people is a few taps. Good for small groups with a detailed bill — see itemizing a bill.
Scan then share. Accurate total with no typing, then everyone claims their own share. Good for large groups — see open splits.
Attaching the photo
The receipt image can stay attached to the transaction whether or not you scanned it, which is useful when someone queries a bill weeks later. Attachments count against your storage, which varies by plan — see plans and limits and attachments and comments.