Questions, answered.

Snap-a-Slip is a WhatsApp bot that turns receipts into clean bookkeeping data. You photograph a slip, the AI extracts the merchant, amount, 15% VAT, date and category, and it lands on a dashboard ready for tax or for your bookkeeper.

No. Snap-a-Slip lives entirely on WhatsApp. Save the number, send a slip, done. The dashboard is a website you only open when you want to review or export.

Save +27 67 220 0126 as a contact and send it a message. The bot walks you through a one-minute setup, then you snap your first slip and the data lands on your dashboard.

Yes, for now. VAT and SARS rules are South Africa specific, and the product is built around them. Other markets are not on the roadmap yet.

Till slips, card payment slips, restaurant tabs, fuel slips, and PDFs. Anything paper or digital. The clearer the photo, the better: full slip in frame, no thumbs over the totals.

Up to you. Snap only business slips, or snap everything and sort it on the dashboard with categories and groups. The bot processes it all; you organise it whichever way suits your bookkeeping.

Yes. A grocery run with twelve lines comes back line by line, and so do restaurant tabs and hotel bills with sub-charges. Each line is captured and included in your exports.

Right now each slip gets one category by vendor. If you grab a coffee on a Pick n Pay grocery run, the whole slip lands as Groceries. Per-line splitting, where one slip can carry multiple categories with VAT split per line, is on the roadmap.

Yes. SARS accepts photographed receipts as long as they are clear, complete and unaltered, and legible at audit. A clean photo is often more readable than the original thermal slip, which fades over time.

The standard VAT rate in South Africa is 15%. Snap-a-Slip pulls the VAT amount out separately on every slip so it is ready for your return.

Yes, automatically. The 15% VAT breakdown is separated from the total on every extracted slip, which makes month-end and year-end VAT submission straightforward.

SARS requires you to keep records, including receipts and tax invoices, for five years from the date of submission of the return. Snap-a-Slip stores your slips for as long as your account is active, so they are there if you are audited.

For amounts over R5,000 SARS requires a full tax invoice showing the words "tax invoice", the supplier's name, address and VAT number, the customer's name and address, a serial number and date, a description of the goods or services, and the VAT amount or a statement that VAT at 15% is included. For R50 to R5,000 an abridged tax invoice is acceptable. Snap-a-Slip keeps the original photo attached so the source document is always on hand.

For supplies between R50 and R5,000 an abridged tax invoice is enough. Under R50 a tax invoice is not required, though you still need proof of the expense. Keeping the photo means you have the evidence either way.

If you are a VAT-registered vendor you can claim the input VAT on qualifying business purchases against the output VAT you charge, and pay SARS the difference. You need valid tax invoices to support the claim. Snap-a-Slip separates the VAT on every slip and keeps the invoice photo, which is the paperwork you need.

Output VAT is the 15% you charge customers on your sales. Input VAT is the 15% you pay suppliers on your purchases. A VAT-registered business pays SARS the difference between the two. Tracking input VAT on your receipts is how you avoid overpaying.

Generally, expenses incurred in the production of income and actually used for your business, for example data and airtime, software subscriptions, equipment, business travel, and a portion of home-office costs if you qualify. The rules have conditions, so check with your accountant. The point of Snap-a-Slip is that when deduction time comes, every receipt is already captured and categorised.

To claim a travel deduction SARS expects a logbook with your opening and closing odometer readings for the year and a record of business trips (date, kilometres and reason). Keep it alongside the fuel and maintenance slips, which Snap-a-Slip captures and files for you.

Provisional taxpayers make a first payment by the end of August and a second by the end of February, with an optional third payment by the end of September. Having your expenses captured through the year makes estimating taxable income far less painful.

Yes, with a live integration. Slips push to Xero as draft bills with the source photo attached, so your bookkeeper opens Xero and the receipts are already there, ready for review.

You can export CSVs formatted to import cleanly into Sage and QuickBooks. A live integration like the Xero one is on the roadmap. For now the formatted CSV gives any Sage or QuickBooks user a clean handoff.

Yes. Snap-a-Slip is the WhatsApp capture layer. If you already use Dext or Hubdoc, export a CSV and bring your receipts in. Same job, different front door: receipts arrive over WhatsApp instead of an app.

CSV and PDF exports work for anyone. Open them in Excel or Google Sheets, or send the PDF straight to your accountant. Snap-a-Slip works just as well on its own.

There are four tiers. Free covers up to 15 receipts a month. Pro is R99/month for one user with unlimited receipts. Business is R399/month for up to 10 users. Enterprise is custom-priced for larger teams and multiple businesses, so get in touch for a quote. Prices are in Rand, VAT inclusive.

Per month. It resets at the start of each month, so you can stay on Free indefinitely as long as you fit inside 15 receipts.

Each business gets its own workspace with separate receipts, categories and exports. Business covers small teams, and Enterprise covers multiple businesses and larger teams; if you have an unusual shape, message us and we will sort out the right fit.

Yes, no lock-in. Type "cancel" on WhatsApp and you are out. Your data stays accessible through your final billing period, and you can export everything before it closes.

Yes, within 14 days of your first paid month. After that you can cancel anytime to stop further billing.

Yes. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and held on encrypted cloud infrastructure. We use a small set of contracted service providers for OCR, AI extraction, image storage, the WhatsApp messaging surface and payments, each a sub-processor under POPIA. You can request the current list from our Information Officer.

Yes. Snap-a-Slip is a South African product built for the local regulatory environment. We honour the right of access and the right to erasure, so you can export or delete your data at any time.

Only you and the people you invite to your workspace, such as a teammate, bookkeeper or accountant. Your receipts are never sold or shared with anyone else.

For as long as your account is active. If you cancel, your data stays available for 30 days so you can export everything (CSV, PDF and receipt images), and then it is deleted. You can also delete your data at any time, and you can shorten the retention period in your account settings.