Bilag
A photo of a receipt becomes a booked entry, ready for e-conomic, Dinero or Billy.
Small companies lose receipts and spend hours typing them into the accounting system. Bilag lets staff take a photo of every receipt or upload the PDF invoice. It reads seller, CVR, date, amount and VAT, suggests the account, warns about duplicates and exports a journal file for e-conomic or a CSV for Dinero, Billy and Excel, with a voucher binder for the accountant.
- Stage
- Live with demo, free trial
- Launch market
- Denmark, then the Nordics
- Revenue
- Monthly subscription
- Price
- Planned DKK 99 to 699 a month
- Buyer
- Owners, bookkeepers, accountants
- Stack
- Node.js · SQLite · Tesseract OCR
The problem
- Receipts fade or get lost, and without the voucher the VAT cannot be deducted.
- Someone types date, amount and VAT from every slip, every month.
- The bookkeeper spends the first week of the month chasing staff for missing receipts.
The product
Staff take a photo in the shop or drag in the PDF invoice. Bilag reads the fields, picks a category mapped to the company's own account numbers and flags duplicates. A person checks and approves, the voucher gets its number, and at month end one export goes into the accounting system. Receipts paid privately are booked as owed to the employee.
- The company signs up and sets its account numbers, or we do it for them.
- Staff upload receipts from their phone as they buy.
- Bilag reads seller, CVR, date, amount, VAT and category.
- The owner or bookkeeper checks and approves each voucher.
- Month end: export to e-conomic, Dinero or Billy and print the voucher binder.
Who pays and why
Business model
| Revenue line | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | DKK 99 a month (planned) | Up to 50 receipts, 1 user. |
| Team | DKK 249 a month (planned) | Up to 300 receipts, 5 users, AI reading. |
| Bookkeeper | DKK 699 a month (planned) | Unlimited receipts and users, set up for them. |
Market and targets
Denmark has well over 200,000 active small companies, and every one of them must keep its vouchers for the tax authority. Most already use e-conomic, Dinero or Billy, so Bilag only has to fill the gap between the receipt and the accounting system.
Targets and prices are planning assumptions.
Go-to-market
Demo and first users
- Live demo with example receipts (done)
- Twenty companies from our own customer base on free trials
- Measure how many fields need fixing per receipt
Bookkeeper partners
- Pilot with 3 bookkeeping firms
- Direct API connection to e-conomic and Dinero
- One login across clients
Self service growth
- Online payment and plans
- Email-in address per company
- Swedish and Norwegian VAT rules
Channels
| Bookkeepers and accountants | One partner brings many clients and decides which tools they use. |
|---|---|
| Our other customers | Tradesman and website customers already work with us. |
| Search | People search for how to keep receipts and deduct VAT. |
Competition
| Alternative today | Why we win |
|---|---|
| Built-in receipt apps in accounting systems | Tied to one system and often basic. |
| Big expense platforms | Built for large companies and priced per user. |
| Typing by hand | Free, slow and full of typos. |
What we measure
- Receipts uploaded per company per month
- Share of receipts approved without changes
- Trial to paid conversion
- Monthly churn
Status and roadmap
- Photo and PDF upload from phone and desktop
- Reading of seller, CVR, date, amount and VAT with Danish and English OCR
- Optional AI reading for hard receipts
- Duplicate warning, expense claims and voucher numbering
- e-conomic journal export, CSV export and voucher binder
- Users, account settings, demo and free trial
- Online payment
- Direct API connection to e-conomic, Dinero and Billy
- Email-in address per company
- Multi-client view for bookkeepers
Risks
| Risk | How we handle it |
|---|---|
| Wrong amounts | Every receipt is checked and approved by a person before export, next to the photo. |
| Accounting systems add the same feature | Work across all three systems and sell through bookkeepers who use several. |
| Data protection | Receipts stay on our own servers, and a company can delete all its data in one step. |
Want a product like this?
We build version one of products like Bilag from about $3,000: web app, admin panel, mobile app and API, live on your own domain. Then we can host and maintain it for $500 a month.