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Email Receipts to Ledger

Automatically turn purchase receipts in email into bookkeeping entries.

Intermediate14h1–2 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Email Receipts to Ledger for freelancers and small teams in ~14h with 1–2 people. Stack: Gmail API + LLM + Postgres.

Why it wins: Automation that accountants appreciate.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Receipts sit in email and are entered manually at tax time.
02 · Solution
Find receipt emails, extract vendor, amount, tax and category, and produce ledger entries ready for export.
03 · Build
  1. 1Search mail
  2. 2Extract fields
  3. 3Map categories
  4. 4Export ledger
04 · Demo
Process a month of receipts into a ledger.

MVP checklist

  • Receipt detection
  • Field extraction
  • Category rules
  • CSV export

Tech stack

TechRole
Gmail APIEmail data
LLMLanguage model
PostgresRelational database

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