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Now that almost all businesses do transactions digitally, it’s a great time to organize your digital receipts. This post will have everything you need to set up a digital receipts organizer to access your important documents when tax time rolls around.
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Digital Receipts Organizer
Folders that need to be created for these receipts should be clear and descriptive to help you understand what receipts go in those folders. Titles should be the main categories on your tax return, from deductions (expenses). Below are examples of receipts you may want to organize digitally. Remember that this post is just for digital receipts that may be on your bank and credit card statements and petty cash.
You can consolidate some of these categories’ folders below if you want. I placed an * that shows the ones you will most likely need.
Digital Receipts folders to hold the small business receipts.
Accounting/Professional fees* – you can add the legal fees as a subfolder under this section.
Advertising/promotions* – Making subfolders for different companies you advertise with helps keep this organized.
Automobile Expenses* – make a subfolder for each vehicle if you have more than one.
Education*
Dues and subscriptions* – create subfolders for each association you are a member of under this account.
Employee benefit programs
Insurance – Auto, Professional, Liability, etc…* – have a subfolder for each insurance coverage you have.
Interest paid – you can add this subfolder under the automobile or other loans you may have.
Internet domain names, hosting (Affiliate Link), and plugins* – create subfolders for each online company you use. You can even add the month of renewal to the filename.
Home Office deductions* – visit this post for details on everything you can deduct in your office.
Legal fees*
Licenses* – adding a subfolder with the new year
Maintenance and repairs or Building Maintenance* – if you have projects that need completing and there are several things you have to do, make a subfolder for each repair project set of receipts.
Office expenses* – create subfolders by the company if you get several from one company.
Office Supplies* – create subfolders by the reused companies. This will keep all the bills in one location.
Postage and Shipping Expenses*
Printing
Rent/Mortgage
Sales tax Paid – this subfolder can hold the confirmation pages you receive after submitting payment.
Create a folder called “taxes” and add all these as subfolders.
Federal Payroll Taxes Paid
State Payroll Taxes Paid
Local Payroll Taxes Paid
Software* – adding subfolders to your invoices and correspondences in this folder will keep these items more organized.
Material Supplies (Cost of Goods Sold)* – if you have supplies, be sure to have subfolders for them under this folder.
Telephone/Cellphone* – if you have more than one phone company, have subfolders under this folder.
Travel and meals*
Utilities* – Utilities can easily be placed under Home Office deductions in their subfolder since you need them when you set up your Home Office deductions.
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Paper Receipts Organizer
If you still want to keep a paper receipt organizer, check out my post, which shares the complete way to organize all your business files physically and digitally.
Did you know that you must keep all credit card receipts related to your business? Visit our credit card receipts post for more tips.
I hope this helps you get and stay organized with your receipts, whether you organize them physically or digitally. Please leave a question comment below, and I will respond as soon as possible.
Learn how to make a Well Organized Bookkeeping Binder (paper edition)
If you need help setting up this receipt system, check out our virtual consulting services, where I can speak with you virtually to set up digital folders customized just for your business.
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