EXPENSE TRACKING · SPEND VISIBILITY

Every receipt
through the gate.
Out the other side,
categorized.

Spending happens in small moments — a card tap, a parking meter, a lunch paid in cash — and the paper trail scatters between the inbox, the camera roll and the bin. CashFish reads each receipt where it lands, in Gmail, Outlook or any IMAP inbox, or from a photo taken at the counter, and turns it into a vendor, a category and an amount you can hold against the month.

Receipts by emailPhotos of paperSubscriptionsBudgets & alerts

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01Where receipts go

Three places a receipt ends up.
None of them is a record.

Nobody decides not to track spending. It just happens in moments too small to stop for — and the evidence goes wherever it was easiest to put down.

PLACE 01
The inbox
"Your Bluefern receipt" is the ninth unread message.

It arrived on time. It's under a newsletter and above a calendar invite, and it will stay there until search finds it — which works only if you remember the vendor's name a month from now.

found · by search, sometimes
PLACE 02
The camera roll
IMG_4471.jpg is a lunch. Probably.

You photographed the paper at the counter, which was the responsible thing to do. Three weeks on it's a picture of a receipt among two hundred other pictures, with no amount attached to it.

found · three weeks later
PLACE 03
The bin
The parking receipt didn't make it to the car.

Twelve dollars. Not worth the walk back. Multiply that by every small cash moment in a month and you've stopped counting a number that was real.

found · never

Then the 31st arrives, and the question isn't what the month cost — it's which of these can still be found. Spending becomes a reconstruction. CashFish keeps it a record, built at the moment each receipt exists.

02One receipt, six readings

What enters,
and what happens to it
in the next three seconds.

Follow one $32.00 charge from Bluefern Software through everything CashFish does with it — caught, matched, filed, named as a subscription, checked against a budget, and counted into the month. Pick a reading.

READING 01 / 06BLUEFERN · $32.00
The receipt is caught

A $32.00 receipt from Bluefern Software lands in Outlook. The inbox is checked every 5 minutes, so it's picked up before you've opened the message. The lunch you paid for in cash joins it as a photo from your phone. Nothing waits on month-end memory.

Receipt — Bluefern Software
Outlook · detected automatically
$32.00
Lunch — Corner Deli
photo · uploaded from phone
$23.75
City Parking
Gmail · detected automatically
$12.00
READING 02 / 06BLUEFERN · $32.00
The vendor is recognised

Bluefern already has six charges on file. This one joins that thread instead of floating loose as a seventh unrelated line. A vendor seen for the first time gets a record on first sight.

Vendor: Bluefern Software7th charge on fileMatched in 1.8 s
READING 03 / 06BLUEFERN · $32.00
A category is proposed

Software & tools — because that's where you've filed Bluefern six times before. Move it once and the next charge follows you. The sorting learns your filing; you don't learn its.

Category: Software & toolsSame as your 6 previous Bluefern entriesOne tap to refile — it remembers
READING 04 / 06BLUEFERN · $32.00
The pattern gets a name

Same vendor, same $32.00, the 12th of every month. That's a subscription, so it's filed with the others and a renewal reminder is set for Sep 12. Recurring charges stop hiding inside the month's noise.

Bluefern Software
monthly · renews Sep 12
$32.00/mo
Northgate Storage
monthly · renews Sep 3
$9.00/mo
Pressline Media
annual · renews Nov 20
$216.00/yr
READING 05 / 06BLUEFERN · $32.00
The line before it's crossed

This charge takes Software & tools to $376 of its $400 for the month — 94%. Word goes out now, while there's still budget left to protect, not after the line is crossed. Every category is watched the same way, continuously, against captured spend.

Software & tools
$376 of $400+9%
94% · alert sent before the line
Meals
$184 of $2500%
Travel
$92 of $300−31%
READING 06 / 06BLUEFERN · $32.00
The month gets a number

August closes at $2,140 tracked — 6% above July, with the categories that moved it in plain view. When your accountant wants the detail, the period exports as CSV or PDF with every receipt accounted for.

$0tracked in August · +6% vs July
Six months of tracked spend · Mar → AugCSV · PDF
03Before the gate / after the gate

What the inbox looks like.
What CashFish sees.

One week of receipts, as they arrive on the left and as they come out on the right. Same files. The five lit on the wall are the five in the rows.

Before the gate41 files · inbox + camera roll
After the gate5 shown · 34 more filed · 2 in review
Bluefern Software
Outlook · detected
Software & tools$32.00
Corner Deli
photo · from phone
Meals$23.75
City Parking
Gmail · detected
Travel$12.00
Northgate Storage
Gmail · detected
Software & tools$9.00
Rail ticket
photo · from phone
Travel$41.20
Five of forty-one, this week$117.95 shown
04Row by row

Six things that happen
without you.

Everything below runs on captured receipts, not on estimates. What you do is glance at the review queue when something is uncertain, and refile a category when you'd have put it somewhere else.

01
Caught wherever spending lands
Receipts are read from Gmail, Outlook or any IMAP inbox on arrival. Paper gets photographed or uploaded as a PDF, so cash spending that never touches email still makes the record.
02
Grouped under the vendor
Charges attach to the vendor they came from, so you see what Bluefern costs you over a year — not seven disconnected lines with the same name.
03
Categories that pick up your habits
Each expense arrives with a category proposal built on your own filing history. Refiling is one tap, and the correction carries forward to the next charge.
04
Recurring charges, noticed early
Vendor, amount and cadence give a subscription away. Each one is gathered into a single view with a reminder set ahead of the renewal — not a surprise after it.
05
Budgets that speak up in time
Set a monthly amount per category and hear about it as captured spend approaches the line. The check runs against real receipts, never against estimates.
06
Compared, then exported
Any period lines up against the last, category by category. The whole record leaves as CSV or PDF the moment someone else needs it.
05The numbers

Four numbers
the gate runs on.

0min
between inbox checks. A new receipt is picked up on the next pass — not at month-end.
0days
of receipts imported when you first connect, so the record doesn't start empty.
0%
extraction accuracy, each reading in under 3 seconds. Anything uncertain waits in review.
$0/mo
average savings reported by subscribers — an average across accounts, not a promise for yours.

Duplicate detection runs on every capture, so a forwarded receipt or a second scan doesn't count twice. Sample amounts on this page are illustrative and internally consistent: one August, one Bluefern, one $32.00.

06Where it reads from

Six doors to the gate.
No new habit required.

Connect the inbox you already use and a folder if you keep one. Every connection shows its health in settings and can be disconnected there at any time.

Gmail
Receipts read as they arrive, with 150 days of history imported at connection.
AVAILABLE
Outlook
The same treatment for Microsoft inboxes, personal or work.
AVAILABLE
IMAP
Any other mailbox, connected by IMAP and checked every 5 minutes.
AVAILABLE
Yahoo Mail
Connected the same way, read the same way.
AVAILABLE
Dropbox
Connects alongside the inbox, so scans and PDFs you keep in a folder are not a separate pile.
AVAILABLE
Google Drive
Connected the same way — receipts saved from a phone or scanner stay reachable from CashFish.
AVAILABLE

Card spending that never produces an email receipt is what bank sync is for — read-only, 12,000+ banks, on Growth and above. QuickBooks and Xero import one way into CashFish. Data is protected with 256-bit encryption (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR).

07Starter, and why

The shoebox never had a chance.
Every receipt sorts itself first.

Nothing on this page waits for a higher tier — capture, categories, subscriptions, budgets, alerts and export are standard on Starter. Step up to Growth only once you want card charges caught even where no receipt was ever emailed.

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08Before the shoebox empties

Before the first receipt.

No. Starter runs entirely from your inbox plus anything you photograph or upload — there is no bank connection involved. Bank sync, which is read-only and part of Growth and above, is for the card spending that never produces an email receipt.

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