Photograph it.
It is filed.

Why the receipt matters more than the bank line

A bank line proves money left your account. It does not prove what it bought, whether it was for the business, or how much VAT was on it. Only the receipt does that, which is why HMRC asks for receipts rather than statements.

Most lost claims are not aggressive ones. They are ordinary costs whose evidence faded, went in a bin, or stayed in a jacket pocket until nobody could remember what it was.

Three ways in, no filing

• —Photograph it at the counter. Thermal receipts fade within months, so the photograph is often better evidence than the paper.
• —Forward the email. Supplier invoices and online receipts go straight from your inbox without being downloaded and re-uploaded.
• —Let it find them. Bizzle reads your connected inbox and pulls out the receipts and invoices already sitting there unopened.

What gets extracted, and what happens next

Supplier, date, total, VAT amount and where possible the line items. That is enough to post the transaction correctly and to support a VAT reclaim.

The document is then matched to the bank transaction that paid it, so the entry, the payment and the evidence are one record. That is the thing that makes a year end quick and an HMRC question answerable in seconds.

Digital copies are acceptable to HMRC provided they are legible and complete, so the paper can go once the photograph is taken.