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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "shoeboxed",
 "name": "Shoeboxed",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "shoeboxed.com",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Something else",
 "summary": "Turn paper and digital receipts into organized, IRS-ready expense data with OCR plus human verification — syncs with QuickBooks and Xero.",
 "best_for": "businesses drowning in PAPER receipts — trades, field crews, owners with shoeboxes of history — who want them humanly digitized, verified and IRS-ready",
 "skip_if": "your receipts are mostly digital already (lighter OCR apps cost less), or your accountant's tooling ingests receipts natively",
 "honest_knock": "Its unique trick is the Magic Envelope, where you literally mail a stuffed envelope of paper receipts and humans digitize them. That trick is also the meter to watch: envelope frequency defines the tiers, and heavy paper businesses land in the $179/mo bracket quickly. If your receipts are already digital, cheaper scan-only apps exist; Shoeboxed earns its price precisely when physical paper is the problem.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$97",
  "entry_price_terms": "per year, or $9/mo (50 digital scans/mo)",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Starter",
    "price": "$97/yr or $9/mo",
    "includes": "50 digital scans/mo, 20 paper scans/yr, 1 Magic Envelope/yr, 3 users"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": "$297/yr or $29/mo",
    "includes": "250 digital scans/mo, 50 paper scans/mo, 1 Magic Envelope/quarter, 5 users"
   },
   {
    "name": "Plus",
    "price": "$797/yr or $79/mo",
    "includes": "1,000 digital scans/mo, 150 paper scans/mo, 1 Magic Envelope/mo, 10 users"
   },
   {
    "name": "Paper Plus",
    "price": "$1,997/yr or $179/mo",
    "includes": "5,000 digital scans/mo, 300 paper scans/mo, 2 envelopes/mo, 10 users"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(price re-verified 2026-10-11 against the vendor's own pricing page; prices unchanged since 31 Aug 2026, allowances and overage rates changed) Four plans, each quoted both yearly and monthly: Starter $97/yr or $9/mo (50 digital scans/mo, 20 paper scans/yr, 1 Magic Envelope/yr, 3 users, 3 years of digital scan storage); Pro $297/yr or $29/mo (250 digital scans/mo, 50 paper scans/mo, 1 Magic Envelope per quarter, Gmail receipt sync, QuickBooks Online/Xero, 5 users); Plus $797/yr or $79/mo (1,000 digital scans/mo, 150 paper scans/mo, 1 Magic Envelope/mo, 10 users); Paper Plus $1,997/yr or $179/mo (5,000 digital scans/mo, 300 paper scans/mo, 2 envelopes/mo, 10 users). Pro and up store digital scans 'forever (while your account is active)'. Overages by tier: $0.19/$0.09/$0.09/$0.07 per digital scan, $2.00/$0.97/$0.87/$0.77 per paper scan, $9 per extra envelope. Unlimited mileage tracking on every plan. The page labels the yearly saving 11%, 17% and 19%; recomputed against twelve monthly payments it is 10.2% on Starter ($97 against $108), 14.7% on Pro ($297 against $348), 15.9% on Plus ($797 against $948) and 7.0% on Paper Plus ($1,997 against $2,148) -- the page's figures are how much more monthly costs, not how much yearly saves. On 11 October 2026 the page also showed a banner reading 'Your 25% off for 3 months is locked in', without printed terms. A 30-day money-back guarantee rather than a free trial -- the card is charged at signup, and the vendor asks you not to claim the refund once a Magic Envelope has shipped.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-11",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "(price re-verified 2026-10-11 against the vendor's own pricing page; prices unchanged since 31 Aug 2026, allowances and overage rates changed) Four plans, each quoted both yearly and monthly: Starter $97/yr or $9/mo (50 digital scans/mo, 20 paper scans/yr, 1 Magic Envelope/yr, 3 users, 3 years of digital scan storage); Pro $297/yr or $29/mo (250 digital scans/mo, 50 paper scans/mo, 1 Magic Envelope per quarter, Gmail receipt sync, QuickBooks Online/Xero, 5 users); Plus $797/yr or $79/mo (1,000 digital scans/mo, 150 paper scans/mo, 1 Magic Envelope/mo, 10 users); Paper Plus $1,997/yr or $179/mo (5,000 digital scans/mo, 300 paper scans/mo, 2 envelopes/mo, 10 users).",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-11",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Expensify or Dext",
  "why": "app-first expense tools — Shoeboxed's differentiator is the mail-in human digitization; if you don't need that, compare on OCR quality alone"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/shoeboxed.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/shoeboxed-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/shoeboxed/",
  "vendor_site": "https://shoeboxed.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://referrals.shoeboxed.com/kac02mcjuo9d",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "shoeboxed:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shoeboxed:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shoeboxed:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shoeboxed:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}