Automate Your Expense Tracking with Smart Receipt Processing
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Effortlessly capture and organize your expenses by automatically extracting data from receipts. This workflow integrates receipt scanning with a powerful database, turning your manual tracking into a seamless, automated process.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow is designed to revolutionize how you manage your expenses. It begins by receiving receipt data via a secure webhook. This data is then processed by Mindee, an intelligent document processing API, to extract key information such as merchant, date, time, currency, total amount, and category. The extracted details are subsequently saved into a designated Airtable base, specifically within a 'Receipt' table. Finally, a 'Set' node formats this data for easy consumption, creating a structured record and generating a human-readable summary message for each expense. This eliminates manual data entry and provides instant insights into your spending habits.
Key Features
- Automated Receipt Data Extraction: Leverages AI to pull critical details from your receipts.
- Seamless Airtable Integration: Organizes all your expense data in a structured and accessible database.
- Customizable Expense Summaries: Generates clear, concise messages detailing each transaction.
- Secure Webhook Input: Accepts receipt data from various sources securely.
How To Use
- Set up your Webhook: Configure the 'Webhook' node with a unique path and ensure binary data is enabled. Secure it with header authentication.
- Integrate Mindee: Connect the 'Mindee' node to your Mindee account and specify the binary property name (e.g., 'receipt') where your receipt image will be sent.
- Configure Airtable: Link your Airtable account to the 'Airtable' node. Select your application ID ('appThOr4e97XjXcDu') and the 'Receipt' table. Map the fields extracted by Mindee (category, date, currency, locale, merchant, time, total) to your Airtable columns.
- Format Output with 'Set' Node: In the 'Set' node, define two string values: 'data' to store the extracted fields from Airtable, and 'message' to create a user-friendly summary of the expense using dynamic variables from Airtable.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"id": "947617bd-bb13-4b2b-b632-24c6f2ef4109",
"name": "Automate Your Expense Tracking with Smart Receipt Processing",
"nodes": 18,
"category": "Personal",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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