Scan a Purchase Receipt, Skip the Typing: AI-Drafted Inventory Purchases on Biller.app

Published 1 August 2026

Ask a restaurant owner how a supplier's paper receipt turns into an inventory update, and the honest answer is: someone re-types it, line by line, item and price, into a spreadsheet or a POS screen — exactly the kind of clerical work that gets skipped on a busy night and forgotten by morning. Biller.app's new receipt scan turns that same paper slip into a ready-to-review purchase entry, without a line typed by hand.

How it works, step by step

1. On the Inventory screen, tap Scan Receipt and upload or photograph 1-5 photos of a supplier's receipt.
2. AI reads each photo in the background as a durable job — a progress bar tracks it, and it keeps working even if you close the tab and come back later.
3. For each line it finds, AI drafts an item name, quantity and price, and opens the results in the same Add Purchase screen you already use for manual entry — pre-filled, not manual, but nothing is saved yet.
4. Review, edit anything that looks off, and save. Only then does it touch your stock — scanning a receipt never writes to inventory by itself.

What it won't guess

A line whose unit doesn't match your inventory item's unit — or one AI can't match to an item at all — is left with its quantity blank rather than guessed, so you fill it in rather than trust a wrong number. Cross-measure conversions (weight to volume) are never attempted, the same boundary Biller.app holds everywhere else stock is touched. The purchase date is pre-filled from the receipt (capped at one month back) but stays editable. A photo AI couldn't read costs nothing and isn't charged.

What it costs

One credit per photo, and only for photos AI actually managed to read. That's the same flat per-item rate as Biller.app's other metered AI actions — Add ingredients with AI and AI-generated dish photos — not a premium add-on bolted on top.

Where this fits

This sits next to, not instead of, the supplier book and one-tap purchase orders Biller.app shipped for outbound orders: the reorder list gets you from low stock to a sent order fast, and receipt scan gets you from a supplier's paper slip back into the app just as fast once the delivery lands. Stock still only moves the way it always has — when you save a reviewed purchase.

Bottom line

The paper receipt was always the last un-digitized step in restocking — somebody still had to sit down and type it in. Receipt scan doesn't remove the review, but it removes the typing: point a camera at a receipt, check the draft, save. It's live now on Biller.app, no separate add-on required.