Email Forwarding
What Is Email Forwarding?
Email forwarding gives you a unique @in.spentrip.app email address. Forward any receipt email to it — a hotel confirmation, an online order, a restaurant e-receipt — and Spentrip automatically creates an expense from it. Attachments like images and PDFs get scanned by the same AI that powers receipt scanning. Plain-text digital receipts get parsed directly.
Each trip can have its own email address, so forwarded receipts land in the right place automatically.
How It Works
Generate Address
Open a trip's detail page and tap Generate Email Address.
Copy It
Your unique address appears on screen. Tap the copy button to grab it.
Forward Receipts
Forward receipt emails from any email app to your Spentrip address.
Done
Spentrip processes the email and creates an expense automatically.
What Gets Processed
The system handles two types of receipt emails:
Email Attachments
Images and PDFs attached to the email are scanned by AI — just like scanning a receipt in the app.
- JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP
- PDF files
- Multiple attachments = multiple expenses
Text-Based Receipts
No attachments? The email body itself gets parsed. Great for digital receipts that arrive as plain text or HTML.
- HTML email receipts
- Plain text confirmations
- AI extracts merchant, amount, date
When an email has attachments, each one becomes a separate expense. When there are no supported attachments, the email body text is used instead.
Who Can Generate an Address
Only the trip owner can generate or regenerate a trip's email address. All trip members can see and copy it.
Managing Your Address
- Copy to clipboard — tap the copy icon next to your address to grab it quickly
- Regenerate — creates a new address and immediately invalidates the old one. Useful if your address gets unwanted mail
Tips & Details
Works With Any Email App
Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Yahoo — anything that can forward an email works. You can also set up auto-forwarding rules in your email provider to send receipts automatically.
Rate Limit
You can forward up to 20 receipt emails per hour. This limit is per user, not per trip address.
Attachment Size
Individual attachments can be up to 20 MB. Unsupported file types (like .zip or .doc) are silently skipped — only images and PDFs are processed.
Address Security
Your email address is unique and randomly generated. If it ever gets compromised or starts receiving spam, regenerate it — the old one stops working immediately.
No Confirmation Emails
You won't receive a reply or confirmation when forwarding receipts. The expense simply appears in the app. If something doesn't arrive, check that your subscription is active and you haven't hit the hourly limit.