The best WellyBox alternatives for receipts and bookkeeping

WellyBox alternatives at a glance

Entry prices as each vendor lists them on its own pricing page, in the currency shown there, checked on 8 October 2026. Confirm current terms with each vendor before you switch.

What WellyBox includes, and what it charges

WellyBox's pricing page shows a 20% discount for annual billing, and its smallest plan is sold annually only. Basic is $19 a month paid annually, for 2 users, 2 email accounts, 2 WhatsApp accounts, 50 documents a month and receipts pulled from the last 12 months of email. Business is $49 a month paid annually with unlimited users, email accounts and documents and 48 months of email history, or $59 billed monthly with 10 users, 500 documents a month and 24 months of history. Enterprise, with a clients dashboard for accounting firms and bookkeepers, is $99 a month paid annually or $124 monthly.

• Every plan includes advanced OCR, accountant access, Excel export, Google Drive sync and an accounting integration.
• WellyBox collects receipts from Gmail, Outlook and other email providers, and scans paper receipts sent over WhatsApp.
• Its home page shows exports to QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks, Excel, Dropbox and Google Drive.

Sources: WellyBox pricing · WellyBox home page

Why you might look for a WellyBox alternative

WellyBox does one job well: it goes through years of email at once and pulls out every receipt it finds. The reasons to compare are about price and about what happens after the receipt is found.

• If you pay monthly, the cheapest plan is Business at $59 a month, because Basic is sold annually only.
• Basic caps you at 50 documents a month and 2 email accounts.
• You want the tool your accountant already works in, so documents publish straight into the books with review built in.
• You want the bank feed reconciled and anomalies flagged, not only receipts collected. WellyBox's home page describes collection, extraction and export, and does not describe bank matching.

Sources: WellyBox pricing · WellyBox home page

The receipt capture alternatives

If what you use WellyBox for is getting receipts out of your inbox and into your accounting tool, these four do the same job with a different trade between price, sources and who the tool is built for.

• SparkReceipt: Pro is $6.90 a month, or $69 a year, for 50 documents a month, one connected email inbox, one live bank feed, bank statement matching and mileage tracking. Elite is $12.90 a month, or $129 a year, for unlimited documents under fair use, several inboxes and line-item extraction. Both plans list QuickBooks Online, Xero, Zapier and Make, accountant access is free, and there is a 7-day trial.
• Receiptor AI: connects Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, IMAP, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 plus WhatsApp, and syncs to QuickBooks Online, Xero and Expensify. Starter is $29 a month for the first 50 documents, then $0.04 each, with one accounting connection; Growth is $79 a month for 250 documents. There is no free plan, and a scan of past email is sold separately from the subscription.
• Dext: one business plan at $25.21 a month, or $302.50 billed annually, for 250 documents a month and 5 users, with a 14-day trial and no card. It publishes to more than 36 accounting platforms including Xero, QuickBooks and Sage, and nothing publishes without your review. Line items, supplier statements and bank statements are paid add-ons beyond a few free credits.
• Hubdoc: $12 a month after a free 30-day trial with no card. It captures bills, statements, invoices and receipts from mobile photos, desktop upload, email forwarding and scanning, syncs to Xero and QuickBooks Online, and has Apple and Android apps.

Sources: SparkReceipt pricing · Receiptor AI pricing · Receiptor AI home page · Dext pricing · Dext integrations · Hubdoc pricing

The AI bookkeeping alternative

If the receipts are not the hard part and the categorising and reconciling are, one tool works directly inside your accounting file.

• Booke AI: $129 per business per month for daily bank feed categorisation, document matching, requests for missing documents, custom rules, exception review with an audit trail, and OCR for bills, invoices and receipts, all inside QuickBooks Online and Xero. Accounting firms get multi-client management and a white-label client experience, priced on request.

Sources: Booke AI pricing

Where Qoren fits, and where it does not

Qoren is not a receipt scanner. It runs agents, and one of its templates is a bookkeeper. Every morning at 06:00 it reads the receipts inbox, extracts vendor, date, amount, tax, category and payment method from each email, PDF or photo into a ledger file, and archives the source. It then matches yesterday's bank and Stripe transactions to the ledger, files anything unmatched as a provisional entry flagged for review, and messages you only when something looks wrong. On Fridays it sends a spend summary, and on the first of the month a close with an Excel export.

• What it does well: no transaction silently dropped, line-by-line reconciliation with both sides shown, alerts for duplicate charges, a subscription that raised its price or an unknown vendor, changed bank details on a known supplier's invoice flagged as possible fraud, subscriptions renewing in the next 14 days listed every Friday, and each Stripe payout matched to the ledger the day it lands.
• What WellyBox does better: one pass through up to four years of email, many inboxes at once, WhatsApp scanning, online supplier portals, a dashboard, accountant access, and direct exports to QuickBooks, Xero and FreshBooks.
• What Qoren does not offer: no Xero or QuickBooks connector, so the agent keeps its own CSV ledger (or a Google Sheet) and hands your accountant an Excel export. No mobile scanning app, no WhatsApp capture, no supplier portal fetching, and no bulk scan of past email. It never pays, replies to or forwards anything. It drafts and reports.
• Setup is real work: receipts arrive by forwarding them to the agent's own mailbox or through Gmail credentials, bank transactions need your own Plaid keys, Stripe needs a read-only key, and you set up the rest with the agent in its first conversation. Model usage is billed on top of the plan. For an agency or a bookkeeper, each client gets its own agent with its own ledger.

Sources: WellyBox pricing · WellyBox home page

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How to choose

Start from what you want to change about your current setup, not from a feature list, and check each vendor's pricing page on the day you decide.

• The lowest price for a handful of receipts, with your accountant invited for free: SparkReceipt.
• The same inbox-wide receipt search as WellyBox, across many email providers and WhatsApp: Receiptor AI.
• Documents published into Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, the way most accounting firms already work: Dext.
• Cheap capture that syncs to Xero: Hubdoc.
• Categorising and reconciling inside your QuickBooks or Xero file: Booke AI.
• A daily reconciliation, anomaly alerts and a monthly close from an agent you own, next to the other agents you run per client: Qoren.

Sources: SparkReceipt pricing · Receiptor AI home page · Dext integrations · Hubdoc pricing · Booke AI pricing