Tallio reads every receipt, matches it to the right job, and sends it to QuickBooks — automatically. Spend 30 minutes a month, not 10 hours.
Tap once. Twelve receipts in thirty seconds — even with one bar of signal.
Vendor, date, tax, line items, category — all read and filled in. Anything we're not 100% sure about gets flagged for you to check in a tap.
Filed under the right job, with the photo attached. Tap twice by accident? It still only sends once.
Tallio is a receipt app for Canadian contractors. Snap a photo on site — Tallio reads the receipt, matches it to the right job, and posts it to QuickBooks Online automatically, with line items and tax split out. Built for the trades: GST/HST handling, Canadian dollars, and job-level expense tracking.
Yes. Tallio connects to QuickBooks Online and posts each receipt as a Purchase on the right job, with the line items and GST/HST already split out. Your vendors, customers, and chart of accounts sync in automatically.
Receipt scanning uses OCR to pull the details off a photo of a receipt. With Tallio you snap a photo on site; it reads the vendor, date, tax, line items, and category, flags anything it isn't sure about, and drops the receipt in your Inbox to review in a tap.
Yes — up to four receipts in a single photo. Lay them flat and Tallio splits them into separate entries; past four, shoot a second photo so the per-receipt detail stays sharp.
The best receipt app for a Canadian contractor posts straight to your accounting software, handles GST/HST/PST/QST, works in Canadian dollars, and tracks expenses by job. Tallio is built for exactly that — for trades like general contracting, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, and landscaping.
Yes. Tallio runs as an iPhone app and on the web at tallio.ca, with your receipts and QuickBooks connection in sync across both.
To claim vehicle costs, the CRA expects a log of your business kilometres. Tallio tracks your trips automatically and calculates deductible mileage at the CRA per-kilometre rate, rolled up by job alongside your receipts.
Yes. The CRA accepts scanned or photographed receipts as long as they're legible and show the date, vendor, amount, and what you bought. Tallio captures a clear image and reads exactly those fields, so the photo you snap on the job site is audit-ready and you can stop keeping the paper.
The CRA generally requires you to keep your records and supporting receipts for six years from the end of the tax year they relate to. Tallio keeps a digital copy of every receipt you scan — the original image plus the extracted data — so you have a searchable archive instead of a fading shoebox.
Self-employed contractors deduct the costs of earning income — job materials, tools, vehicle and mileage, phone and internet, home office, and 50% of meals — reported on form T2125. Tallio sorts each receipt into tax-ready categories, tracks mileage, and breaks out GST/HST so your totals line up at filing time.
More how-tos in the Help & guides — including adding receipts to QuickBooks and tracking job expenses.
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