Receipts, taxes, and getting paper out of your life.
Guides on receipt tracking, tax prep, expense categories and getting paper out of your life.
Resiboo Cloud: sync and share your receipts
Resiboo Cloud is an optional paid plan that syncs your vault across devices and lets you share it with a partner or business co-founder. Here's what it does, what it costs, and what stays free.
Read post →8% tax vs. graduated rates: which one should a freelancer in the Philippines pick?
The 8% flat income tax option and the graduated rates plus percentage tax both apply to self-employed Filipinos and professionals — here's the actual difference and a simple way to work out which costs less.
Read post →Are digital receipts valid for the BIR? What a phone photo actually proves
Scanning a receipt with your phone is a great habit — but does BIR accept a digital copy on its own, or do you still need the paper? Here's what RR 5-2014 actually requires and how to work with it.
Read post →Bill reminders that come from your receipts — and when you'll want them
How Resiboo suggests reminders for recurring bills from the receipts you already scan, and the everyday Philippine situations where that turns out to matter.
Read post →Don't lose your receipts when you lose your phone
Receipts scanned to your phone disappear the moment the phone does. Here's how Resiboo's backup and restore actually works — local, iCloud, Google Drive, and moving to a new device.
Read post →How to categorize expenses so you can actually use the numbers later
A category system for receipts that holds up for freelancers, online sellers, and households in the Philippines — plus how Resiboo learns your categories automatically.
Read post →Duplicate receipts: how to avoid double-counting an expense or a reimbursement
Scanning the same receipt twice, or submitting one for reimbursement more than once, is an easy mistake — here's how Resiboo catches it and what to do when it flags one.
Read post →How to export receipts to CSV — for your accountant or a budgeting app
Where Resiboo's export lives, how to send a bookkeeper a spreadsheet, how to shape a CSV for YNAB or another budgeting app, and how to export just one trip's receipts.
Read post →Tracking business expenses as a freelancer or online seller in the Philippines
You don't need accounting software or a bookkeeper on retainer to keep clean business records — you need every receipt captured, categorized, and exportable when your accountant or the BIR asks.
Read post →A better way for cafes and small shops to log GCash, Maya, and bank payments
If your shop's only record of a digital payment is a screenshot of the customer's phone, here's how to turn that same habit into a categorized, tagged, end-of-day sales record instead.
Read post →How long should you keep receipts for BIR taxes in the Philippines?
A plain-English guide to how long to keep receipts and records for the BIR — the 3-year assessment window, the 10-year retention rule, and what to keep even longer.
Read post →How to digitize paper receipts in the Philippines (and actually find them later)
A practical workflow for turning a drawer of fading thermal receipts into searchable records — what to capture, where to keep it, and what the BIR still wants in original.
Read post →How to register as self-employed with the BIR in the Philippines
The registration steps for freelancers, professionals, and online sellers — RDO, Form 1901, the Certificate of Registration, books of accounts, and invoicing — before you worry about which tax rate to pick.
Read post →How to find an old receipt on your phone in seconds
You remember what you bought but not where you filed it. Here's how receipt search actually works — by merchant, amount, date, tag, and what was printed on the receipt itself.
Read post →When you need the full receipt, not just the total: itemized line items explained
Merchant, date, and total cover most uses of a receipt — but splitting a grocery bill or proving a specific purchase needs the individual line items. Here's how that works and when it's worth turning on.
Read post →Official receipt vs. sales invoice: what's the actual difference now?
The OR/SI split used to matter a lot for BIR compliance in the Philippines. Since the 2024 Ease of Paying Taxes reforms, one document does most of the work — here's what changed and what to ask for.
Read post →Looking for a receipt scanner app without a subscription? Here's what to check
A lot of receipt scanner apps put the actual scanning behind a paywall or a monthly cap. Here's what to look for if you want unlimited scanning without paying for it — and how Resiboo is priced.
Read post →How to track expenses without linking your bank account
Bank-linking apps assume every purchase leaves a clean digital trail. Cash, GCash transfers to individuals, and informal vendors don't work that way — here's how receipt-first tracking covers what a bank feed misses.
Read post →Where did my money go? Reading your spending without a budgeting app
You don't need envelopes, goals, or a budgeting app to answer where your money went — you need your receipts organized. Here's what that looks like.
Read post →How to keep warranty receipts when you buy furniture and appliances
Furnishing a new home or condo in the Philippines? Here's how to keep the official receipt and warranty card together so a claim later is a quick service-center trip, not an argument.
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