Photo → Categorized Total

The Shoebox of Receipts, Minus the Shoebox

Send @vustReceiptBot a photo of a receipt and get merchant, date, total with currency, category and items count back — no manual entry. Free 10 receipts a month, then 1✦ each. /month sums your current totals; /export ships them as a CSV.

Free 10 receipts/month · 1✦ after · /month + CSV export.AI extraction, verify important amounts
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Photo in, total outFree 10 receipts/month/month totals + CSV export

Honest scope

An extraction to verify, not a filed accounting record

Every result — the welcome message and every receipt — carries the same line: this is an AI extraction, verify important amounts, not accounting or tax advice. It's built to turn a pile of photos into a running total and a category breakdown fast, not to replace bookkeeping software or a tax preparer for anything that has to be exact.

Photo bytes and itemized lines are never stored — only the compact summary, so /month and /export can work.

See the difference

One photo, a categorized total — free 10 times a month.

The moment this solves

The pile

A drawer, a wallet, or a phone camera roll full of receipt photos — groceries, a coffee run, a hardware store trip — that need to become a number you can actually look at, not just a stack of paper or a folder of images nobody opens.

What @vustReceiptBot returns

Send the photo — back comes the merchant name, date, total with currency, a spending category, and how many items were on it, plus a confidence line. Every result carries the same honest note: this is an AI extraction, verify important amounts, not accounting or tax advice.

A real receipt, worked through

The photo

A crumpled grocery-store receipt with a faded thermal print, photographed on a kitchen table.

The extraction

"Merchant: Fresh Market · Date: 2026-07-05 · Total: $47.32 · Category: groceries · Items: 14 · Confidence: high." No manual entry, no typing the total by hand — just the photo.

Free tier, and the running total

10 receipts a month, no charge

The free tier resets every calendar month (UTC) at 10 receipts — not a rolling 30-day window. A photo of something that isn't a receipt is never charged, on either tier.

Past 10/month

Each additional receipt is 1✦ (a spark via Telegram Stars, no subscription). /month sums the current month's totals per currency plus your top-3 spending categories; /export ships the same data as a CSV file.

02·Practical use cases

Who this fits

Receipt-drawer owners

A phone full of receipt photos with no running total

Send each photo to @vustReceiptBot — merchant, date, total, category and items count come back instantly.

Free-tier expense-watchers

Wanting a categorized monthly total without a subscription

10 free receipts every calendar month; not-a-receipt photos are never charged.

Spreadsheet users

Wanting the data outside the chat too

/export ships an RFC4180 CSV (date, merchant, category, total, currency) ready to open anywhere.

03·How it works

How a scan works

01Send a receipt photo

In Telegram, to @vustReceiptBot — no app, no account setup.

02Get merchant + total back

Merchant, date, total + currency, category, items count, confidence line — an AI extraction, verify important amounts.

03Free 10/month, then 1✦

After 10 receipts/calendar month, each additional receipt is 1✦. Not-a-receipt photos are never charged.

04·Same tool · in Telegram

Telegram

Scan your first receipt for free

@vustReceiptBot · Open @vustReceiptBot, send a receipt photo, get merchant/total/category back in seconds. 10 free every month.

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05·Quality & trust

Honest scope — extraction, not accounting

AI extraction only

Every result — welcome message and every receipt — carries the same disclaimer: an AI extraction, verify important amounts, not accounting or tax advice.

Photos and item lines aren't stored

Only the compact summary (merchant, date, total, currency, category, items count) is kept — no photo bytes, no itemized purchase history.

Not-a-receipt never charged

A photo that isn't a receipt costs nothing on either tier — monthly free slots and paid-tier sparks are both protected.

Frequently asked questions

More ways to turn a photo into a number.

Expensify comparison

Expense-report platform vs a personal receipt chat — the honest trade-off.

Calorie scanner

Same photo-in idea, applied to food instead of receipts.

Pay with Telegram Stars

How ✦ spark pricing works across every VUST bot.

Ready when you are

Free 10 receipts a month. Then 1✦ each.

No subscription, no expense-report workflow — a Telegram chat that turns a photo into a categorized total, plus /month and /export.

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