Bill Catcher · Windows app
Every emailed bill, caught and filed on your PC.
Bill Catcher is the emailed-bills reader in the Balaur Data Extractor desktop app. Export your Gmail with Google Takeout, drop the download into Bill Catcher's folder, and it works through the receipts, invoices and payment emails inside, ready for you to check.
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What it does
Bill Catcher at a glance
One folder, the whole inbox
Point Bill Catcher at its folder once. Everything you drop in after that is picked up.
Sorted for you
Receipts, invoices, refunds and failed payments each get their own category, and marketing emails are set aside.
Income and expenses
Sales invoices you sent are told apart from bills you paid, so income is recognised as well as costs.
Line items
Each line on a bill becomes its own row, useful for stock records and job costing.
Review first, then automatic
You confirm the first bill of each layout. After that, bills like it are read the same way.
Zoom on the original
A zoomable preview shows the bill beside its reading, so small print is easy to check.
Ask Claude, if you want it
Optionally let Ask Claude read an unusual file on your own key. Once a layout is learned, it is read on your PC again and again.
Your own file format
Results save to Balaur Data Extractor's own .balaur spreadsheet, so Excel is optional.
How it works
Four steps.
Export
Download your Gmail with Google Takeout.
Drop it in
Put the download in Bill Catcher's folder on your PC.
Check
Confirm the first bill of each layout in the review step.
Use it
Send the rows to Data Tools, Tax mode or your accounting files.
Good to know
- Bill Catcher reads a Google Takeout export saved on your PC. It does not connect to your mailbox.
- Bill Catcher is part of the Windows desktop app.
A person always has the final say: every reading is shown for review, and readings that look off are flagged.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Does Bill Catcher connect to my email account?
No. You export your Gmail with Google Takeout and drop the download into Bill Catcher's folder on your PC. Your mailbox is never connected.
Can it tell income from expenses?
Yes. Sales invoices you sent are recognised as income, bills you paid as expenses, and refunds and failed payments get their own categories.
Does it read line items?
Yes. Each line on a bill can become its own row, which helps with stock records and job costing.
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