Guides

Cards, badges and receipts into Google Sheets and Drive

How the filing works, where it fits next to other tools, and what happened when we tested it on photos we did not pick.

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Scan business cards into Google Sheets

Photograph a business card and get a clean row in your own Google Sheet: name, title, company, email, phone, links and notes. No app store install, no CRM, free for 10 cards a month.

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Receipt scanner that saves to your own Google Drive

Photograph a receipt and BusyTrip files the image into a month folder in your Google Drive and adds a row with date, vendor, amount, currency and category to a monthly sheet. Your Drive, not ours.

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Conference badge scanner for attendees

Most badge scanners are lead-retrieval tools sold to exhibitors by the event. BusyTrip is for the attendee: photograph a badge or card, get a row in your own Google Sheet with notes and public links.

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Business card scanner without a CRM

Most card scanners are a CRM in disguise: the scans live in their database and export is the upsell. BusyTrip writes each card to a Google Sheet in your own Drive and keeps no copy.

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Expense receipts to Google Sheets for freelancers

A freelancer's receipt workflow that ends in a Google Sheet your accountant can open: photograph, pick the card it was paid with, and BusyTrip files the image by month and adds the row. $6.99 a month or free for 10 receipts.

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How to organize receipts in Google Drive

A month-per-folder structure for receipts in Google Drive, a naming rule for the files, a sheet per month for the numbers, and how to keep it up by hand or with a scanner.

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Comparison

BusyTrip vs Business Card Reader for Google Sheets

Two ways to get business cards into Google Sheets compared honestly: the dedicated Business Card Reader app from MobileWorks and BusyTrip. Where each one wins, with prices as listed on 2 September 2026.

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Comparison

BusyTrip vs ExpenseBot

ExpenseBot is an expense tool with Gmail scanning, bank reconciliation and accounting exports. BusyTrip is a phone scanner that files receipts into your Drive. Which one you need, with prices as listed on 2 September 2026.

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Test results

What happens when you feed a scanner 102 random photos

51 business card photos and 51 receipt photos pulled at random from Wikimedia Commons, run through BusyTrip on the live site. The numbers, the failures, and why declining a photo is the feature.

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