When I do my groceries shopping (at Kroger, Costco, Target,…) I get a paper receipt at checkout. Really? And we’re in the 21st century! All stores now have a membership card, so couldn’t they make that receipt information available to me on their web site? Then my personal finance application could import it directly without any need of double entry or complicated user manipulation. Or they could print a QR code on the receipt that would embed all that information. Using my phone I could scan it directly into an app (hello Intuit?).
All companies involved here have a great opportunity to develop some APIs to make the entire communication / information flow a lot more fluid.
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