The Story Behind TallyScan

TallyScan didn't start because we wanted to build a SaaS company. It started because we were tired of how we were spending our own time.

Like many small business owners, our month-end was always a headache. We had invoices scattered across three different email inboxes. Every month, we had to go through them one by one, download the attachments, open the PDFs, and manually copy the totals, dates, and tax amounts into an Excel spreadsheet.

It was tedious work, but the worst part was when the numbers didn't match at the end. Because we were doing everything manually, a single typo meant we often had to start the whole process over, re-checking every single invoice because we didn't know which one was wrong.

We looked for tools to automate this, but we ran into two main problems. First, many of the established solutions were built for large companies. They were over-engineered, had too many features we didn't need, and were far too expensive for a team of two or three people.

Second, the tools that were built for smaller teams often required us to grant full read and write access to our entire email inbox. To us, that felt like a step too far. We didn't want to hand over our entire digital life and privacy to a third-party app just to extract data from a few receipts.

We realized there was a gap for a tool that was simple, affordable, and respected privacy. We wanted something where we could simply forward the emails we chose, and have the data extracted automatically without giving away control of our entire inbox.

After trying almost everything available and not finding what we needed, we decided to build it ourselves.

TallyScan is exactly the tool we wanted for our own businesses. It’s built for founders, freelancers, and small teams who want to automate the boring stuff without compromising on privacy or overpaying for enterprise features they’ll never use.