Receipts from email and Google Drive, attached to your payments
Forward a receipt to your company's own address, or set an email filter that does it for you, and it lands on the payment it proves. You can also pick a Google Drive folder, read-only. Accountable never reads your inbox or changes a file.
Updated · 2 min read · By the Accountable team
The short version
- Each company has its own forwarding address in Settings › Invoices and receipts; it works from any inbox.
- An email filter that forwards your vendors' receipts does the work with no Google connection at all.
- Google Drive connects read-only, and access covers only the folder or files you pick.
- Accountable attaches each receipt or invoice to the payment it proves.
- Disconnecting Drive revokes Google's access, and files already attached stay in Documents.
What Accountable reads
- Receipts you or your team forward to the company's address, attachments and receipts written in the email itself.
- The Drive folder or files you pick, such as Finance / Receipts.
- Nothing else: it doesn't read your inbox and never changes files.
A receipt is attached to the payment it proves
Accountable reads each receipt and links it to the transaction, bill or month it proves when the amount, date and vendor fit. The Documents page shows every file with its tabs, All, Bank statements, Receipts, Contracts, Tax and Board, and an Unlinked filter for what still needs a match.
| Way | What you do | Needs Google? |
|---|---|---|
| Forwarding | Forward the receipt, or set a filter that forwards it | No |
| A Drive folder | Press Connect next to Google Drive, then Choose folder | Yes |
| Upload | Drag files onto any page, or Upload on Documents | No |
How to set it up in three steps
Step 1: Open Settings › Invoices and receipts and press Copy next to the address.
Step 2: In your email, forward receipts to it, or add a filter that forwards mail from your vendors on its own.
Step 3: To bring in Drive files, press Connect next to Google Drive, allow read-only access, then press Choose folder and pick the folder or files.
The step-by-step help article is Forward receipts by email or pick them in Google Drive.
Forwarded and uploaded receipts reach the same place
Every receipt ends up on the same Documents page, whichever way it arrived. Accountable accepts images, PDF, CSV, Excel, Word and text files up to 25 MB each, and files from your team are filed within a minute.
The help article on receipts and statements has the tabs and filters.
Google can end Drive access, and so can you
Google sometimes stops an app's access, for example after a password change. The Google Drive row then says Access expired; press Reconnect and allow access again, and receipts already attached stay attached. To end it yourself, press Disconnect, then Disconnect Google Drive, and Google's access is revoked.
Google also lets you review and remove the apps that have some access to your account data at any time, from your Google Account's linked-apps page.
Questions founders ask
Does Accountable read my email?
No. You forward the receipts you want filed to your company's own address, by hand or with an email filter.
Does it see my whole Google Drive?
No. Drive access covers only the folder or files you pick, not the rest of your Drive.
Can I skip connecting Google?
Yes. Forwarding and uploads work without Google.
What happens to attached receipts if I disconnect Drive?
Files already attached stay in Documents. Disconnecting stops new lookups and revokes Google's access.
Let your books find the receipts
Start free with one company. Forward receipts or pick a Drive folder, and payments get their receipts attached.
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