Receipt Pal: Earn Gift Cards

I have been using this appt for several years. It works as far as your weekly sign in and getting 100 points for automatic scan of your attached email and a handful of apps. It does require time because it takes longer than it should just to open the app. It takes time to submit a receipt. It literally goes through a process for each receipt submitted. You need to check in during the week so that you are able to get the maximum points. The most you can earn is 400 points per week. They only allow you to submit a max of 15 receipts which are good for 300 points and the receipts need to be for the week specified. They do not accept pharmacy or repair receipts. If they do not recognize something on the receipt then you won’t get your entire points receipts. I feel like I spend more time trying to get my points from them because their system invalidates receipts. They don’t notify you to correct the issue or resubmit the receipt(s). You will need to check your account regularly to make sure all your receipts were accepted. Lastly, you can only submit your receipts on Sun, Mon, and Tues. Overall, it’s a legit app and they are quick to issue your cash out for gift cards. It just takes several months before you can cash out because you earn points slowly and it’s limited to a maximum each week.

First, these guys have about the worst app on the planet. It’s always thinking, you try to hit a button and it goes into swirly mode. It takes forever just to be able to start doing whatever you came to the app to do. Trying to take a picture of a real receipt, good luck with that. First of all, this is the only app that I think goes out of its way to try and find something wrong with your receipts. Even if there’s nothing wrong and every other app on the planet says it’s a good solid receipt out of these guys will always find at least one. Always. The app is so slow and ridiculous that it doesn’t even pay the triangle back and dispute it. Then there’s the rewards. I’ve been using it for years and it was kind of nice for a while even deal dealing with all the issues. There was a point a few years ago, where they reduced all of the points that you would get for submitting your receipts. OK, I get it. Now just recently they ran some campaign where they were trying to make it sound, as most of these places do, like they were going to make some changes to benefit us. B. S. It used to be you could get to about $100 gift card in a year maybe a little over if you completed all your cards every week throughout the year. They just changed that all. Greedy corporate policy I guess. They almost doubled the points needed to get the same level reward. Definitely not worth it. Been using it for a long time. But when places keep getting greedier and greedier, goodbye! For the amount of work you have to do, the rewards just aren’t there anymore.

What I do like about this app is that receipts from most places are accepted and they all get the same amount of points regardless of the amount. What I don’t like is that you can only submit a maximum amount of 12 receipts per week to get actual points. You can submit more that will earn you sweepstake entries but there are typically near 500,000 total entries so your chances of winning are extremely slim. I’m not going to waste my receipts on sweepstake entries that will likely not get me anything, so I’m always having to hold on to multiple receipts from the prior week to submit again on Sunday so that I can get points. Really unnecessary. 12 is an extremely low number of weekly receipts, as other apps allow you to submit almost 3 times that much. So yeah, that would be my number one thing to make the app better. Aside from that, it would be nice if they offered a cash option, like Venmo or PayPal for redeeming rewards, but only gift cards are offered. I’m not gonna complain about gift cards but would much prefer cash, as many other receipt apps offer this.