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When you connect QuickBooks to your bank, credit cards and other accounts, your transactions are automatically imported for you, helping you ensure that come tax time, your books are balanced, and every rand is accounted for.

Once you find the right QuickBooks product for your business needs on your computer, downloading the QuickBooks companion app turns your phone's camera into an instant receipt scanner. Snap, save and store tax deductible receipts with built-in receipt scanner. Simply take a photo of a receipt and QuickBooks will attach it to the expense in your books. Plus, the scanned receipt is saved as a digital file for documentation at tax time.

Not only does the QuickBooks app come with built-in receipt scanning to help you track and organise your expenses, it can enable you to run your business with the following features:

  • Automatically sort your expenses and save over 40 hours a month
  • Easily send invoices and payment reminders directly from your mobile device, anytime anywhere
  • Imports your transactions for you so you'll spend only minutes reconciling your accounts at the end of the month
  • Create customised reports to get important insights specific to your business.

Join over 5.6 million customers globally and find the QuickBooks plan that works for your small business on www.quickbooks.co.za. Save 30% on your subscription today! Terms and conditions apply.

Intuit, the developers of QuickBooks software was founded in 1983. Our mission is powering prosperity around the world. We build intuitive web, mobile, and cloud solutions that generate more money, more time, and more confidence for approximately 50 million people. Leveraging big data insights, machine learning, and powerful automation, we help consumers, small business owners, and the self-employed achieve their dreams of prosperity. Some of our industry-leading products include Mint, TurboTax and QuickBooks. Ranked the world's number 1 online accounting software with 3.3 million subscribers to QuickBooks Online worldwide we launched in South Africa in February 2018. Locally in South Africa more than 50,000 SMEs enjoy the quick to learn, quick to use accounting package that makes running the financial side of your business, easy. QuickBooks
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