Steel Blue Yearling That's a great idea!  I use Wave to save my business receipts for now and the app does that for me.  And that's in the FREE version of the app.  It shouldn't be too hard to add for us paying YNABers...

PhysicsGal That's awesome! Honestly, i don't even need them to save an image of the receipt or anything (I could see that being a storage issue that could be time consuming/costly for YNAB to solve). Though I can see why people would want a storage option... I'd just be happy if it would enter a transaction for me.

Daniele Hi, I reconcile my cash most weeks and there is usually a small write-off, but over the month if this is less than say £20 I do not tend to worry.  If it is larger than about £20 then with a bit of effort I can usually recall some of the spending.

I used to have a piece of paper in my wallet and would make notes to help me recall and if I am on the phone I will usually add the transaction as I walk away or when I remember or from the receipt in my wallet.

I suspect there are a lot of people using YNAB who set themselves a monthly cash budget for small items and do not actually bother tracking them to the transaction level.  You only need the details if you feel you are spending too much that you cannot account for and want to do something about it, but if your unaccounted for cash is within acceptable limits you will not achieve anything either adding them individually or scanning receipts.

I hope this helps

Turquoise Trombone At the time of purchase, it's too late. You will have better luck checking your category Available BEFORE you go to the store. 

dakinemaui Yes but the point is that if you go too far, the entire money you spent at the supermarket has just one entry. Being able to actually check the bill and go into detail will avoid the overload the month afterwards. I think @torquoise_trombone6  has a point

Daniele It doesn’t have to be just one entry. 

Daniele none on my supermarket bills are ever just one entry in YNAB, they are always a split transaction to capture the level of detail I decided upon when I step my categories.  Most supermarkets these days are large department stores so it is very rare we spend against just one category. Costco is a good example.

Daniele I would also point out that you are justifying having a receipt from which you can split a transaction later. More importantly, you can already do that in various ways at present.

You haven't made a case for having that receipt *in YNAB*. 

Turquoise Trombone That most of the posts in this thread are listed as “1 year ago” (and they’re actually not only a year old, mine at least is more like 22 months; it’s just not two years old yet) ought to tell you where this sits on the priority list. I would figure out how to use the existing functionality to make the splits you need to make at point of sale. And yes, if you are chronically overspending a category, you should check it and move money before you spend. That’s going to help you stop overspending a lot more than any sort of breakout of your groceries is likely to. 

WordTenor Thanks for the tips.  I was replying to (one way) how this specific function would be useful. (There are many.)... I already do make the splits, but there are countless other reasons (listed by other users) why adding receipts would be great. I recognize the thread is old, but also figure that feedback is feedback... and maybe, just maybe... this squeaky wheel will get the grease and *ta da!* there will be a receipt scan function available!

Turquoise Trombone We just got an update about two months ago with  changes to goal functionality that have been promised for four years. I’m just pointing out that I would not get my hopes up, and that if you are wishing for this functionality do do x, I would figure out how to do x without this functionality as it’s not likely to come any time soon. 

Bimbles The ATO has a specific app for deductions that can then be used to assist with your tax return in myGov. 

Also is now only 5 years that you need to keep your documents for after lodging your tax return.

Forest Green Wildebeest That would be brilliant. It's a problem for which my hardcopy-based systems are wholly inadequate to provide a workable solution, so much so that I wasn't even thinking it would be possible.

WordTenor An update was posted earlier in the thread. It looks like there's an issue with the pin, and it's not going to the top of the thread—I'll look into it!

We'll be leaving the thread open to continue collecting any feedback, ideas or suggestions. For those of you who would like to see this added, please submit a Feature Request to pass along any details you think we should know about!

Nicole That makes literally actual no sense whatsoever especially since the company tried to shut down feature request discussion last year. 
 

Shall we start a feature request discussion thread for each of the other feature requests? I am taking from this reply that such threads will no longer be closed? 

I will make a post right away asking about what threads people would like to see! 

WordTenor Since this was a call for opinions directly from our CPO and the feature is still being considered for future implementation, the thread will not be closed.

We haven't closed any recent feature request threads but we haven't officially changed our stance on them. Let's hold off on that call for thread ideas for now. The Feature Request form is still the best way to get them in front of the development team, but we'll take another look at this in the coming week to see if our approach to feature requests should be updated.

Faness I will follow up in one week and anticipate a real policy. 

I really do try not to be a jerk and be useful here. But y’all give me whiplash about this stuff. If it’s not okay to discuss feature requests because they should go in the request form, then certainly a TWO YEAR OLD thread should be closed and the main post updated. That’s just good forum moderation and good business to boot.

The other major software I use where I am very active in the user community is Canvas LMS. YNAB could learn a lot about how to do a tech support/user to-user support/feature implementation system from them. They do it very, very well.

WordTenor 

WordTenor said:
I really do try not to be a jerk and be useful here.

 Maybe try a little harder? Obviously you care, but even your caring comes across as threatening and less than helpful. Theres two of you on this forum that look like youd rather be a thorn than a rose. Until YNAB is publicly traded, I dont think theres any reason to get so caught up in how it's run. Theres always room for improvement, but unless you work for them it's not your job to try to force those improvements down their throats.

Til Debt Do Us Part I’m sorry, I missed the part of the thread where you got tagged? 

WordTenor What a peculiar rebuttal to use in a public forum. You weren't tagged before making your first comment. Surely you dont mean you never should have posted?

Hi WordTenor !

We decided that we'll continue to treat feature requests as we have been more recently. An update to the forum guidelines is in the works to better outline how they'll be handled. 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Canvas! We're hoping to make a number of strides in the forum this year.

WordTenor If you have such an issue with how this forum is run why is that you keep coming back?

iwaddo Simple. I like helping people use YNAB. And I like YNAB, and I think the crew which support it can do better than they are doing and I would love to see them do that. Since there's no private way to ask these sorts of questions (all of the staff have their PMs turned off), I wind up having to be more publicly confrontational than I'd prefer to be. But if they don't want to come back in a week to update us, it's appropriate to ask again. 

Thanks for the update, @Faness. You'll note I did not start a thread asking for people to start feature request threads, but I will suggest that perhaps people open a thread for robust discussion when they ask about one. One very useful purpose such threads show is a record of how long a feature has been being requested, which gives a new user some indication of whether or not it is a priority. That is very useful information. 

WordTenor You can send a private message directly to Veronica . Discussion about feature requests are welcome! Most new request posts have that happen organically as folks chime in.

For the idea to be officially considered, submitting the Feature Request form will continue to be the best way to get it to our product team.

WordTenor Helping people use YNAB is great, criticising the forum is not, I think it does a great job.

Having a place to lodge and track feature requests would be great but I think a small number of the more vocal users will be frustrated when the top requests do not get implemented.  It is clear that YNAB is here to serve a purpose and just because a small minority of users want a different purpose does not mean that YNAB should change.

I think many people on the forum lose sight of the purpose of YNAB. It is to help people with 'short' term money issues learn to budget and improve their financial future and it does that extremely well for so many people.

YNAB  is not and should never be a business management package and putting in receipts into the current offering is such a bad idea for so many reasons, I for one will be voting against it. 

WordTenor FYI, what you're doing is not helping me. 

Beanorama Perhaps not, but if you and others continue to whiteknight we'll get the thread so far off track they'll have no choice but to close it, which will further my original objective. So I may not be helping you, but you are certainly helping me! Thanks! 

WordTenor Having abused this forum, no one will fault the moderators for now banning you from it. That would leave the rest of us here to discuss the relevant issue of this thread in a civil fashion.  From now on, I will now observe the precept of community interaction from which I diverged in replying to you: do not feed the trolls.

Beanorama Providing an opinion regarding how to better the forum is not abusing it. The fact is this thread and indeed the entire forum is NOT for feature requests.

If you have an urge to add a "me too" vote, the official process is to make a Feature Request.

It's precisely because so many people continually misunderstand this that WordTenor occasionally speaks out.

Again, a "me too" in this thread does NOTHING. It's effectively a DEAD THREAD for that reason.

But there different ways of expressing an opinion and some are clearly less helpful than others. 

iwaddo I'm guilty of that on occasion as well. All we can do is strive to a) be better and b) assume the other poster is intending to be helpful and not take things so personally. Indeed the Community Guidelines that YNAB recently reposted say much the same.

iwaddo I agree - I thought this was a personal finance tool, not business accounting software.
 I read the arguments for this, none have managed to to convince me.  I have said it before in this thread that I do not want to pay for this feature if implemented.  So if it does go forward, I hope the subscription price is not increased to cater for it.  I really hope they take notice of this kind of feedback.  I know they don't want to have different subscription prices based on feature being opt in or out, but in this case I think they should. 

Doug Most of my larger purchases are receipted by email in someway and for the small number that aren't I can photo\scan and dump in a folder.  This way I am not dependent on YNAB should I wish to try an alternative package.  Exporting transactions and importing them into something else is conceivable, adding receipts to this makes it quite inconceivable. 

Orchid Falafel No where did YNAB say they were going to add this feature so I'm not sure it's fair to say there has been no progress.