Your bookkeeper wants the receipts in Excel. What you have is a phone full of slip photos, a folder of PDFs, and an inbox of order confirmations. You could open a blank workbook and start typing, but by the tenth coffee you'd be guessing at the totals.
Here is what the Slipsheet export actually gives you, column by column.
How do you export receipts to Excel?
Slipsheet's export is a CSV file that opens straight in Excel, with one row for each receipt you've reviewed. Every row has the same nine columns: date, merchant, total_amount, currency, tax_amount, category, client_tag, notes, and file_name. You download it from your ledger with Export selected or Export all.
The columns, in order
The first row of the file is the header. Every row under it is one receipt:
| column | what it holds | example value |
|---|---|---|
date | The receipt date, written as YYYY-MM-DD. Blank if there's no date. | 2026-09-03 |
merchant | Who you paid, as you confirmed it in review. | Corner Hardware |
total_amount | The receipt total, as a plain number with two decimals and no currency symbol. | 41.30 |
currency | The currency code saved on the receipt. | USD |
tax_amount | The tax on the receipt, two decimals. Blank if there's none. | 3.40 |
category | The category you set. | Supplies |
client_tag | The client or project tag, if you use one. Blank otherwise. | Harbor & Co. |
notes | Anything you typed during review, with line breaks turned into spaces. | shelf brackets |
file_name | The name of the file you uploaded or emailed in, so a row leads back to its slip. | IMG_4412.HEIC |
The order never changes. New columns get added at the end and existing ones aren't renamed, so a SUMIF that points at column C this month still points at the total next month. There's no subtotal column. The file holds the total, the tax, and the currency code next to them.
Three receipts, three rows
Three invented receipts from three places: a phone photo of a thermal slip, a PDF from an online order, and an emailed receipt. In the export file, they come out like this:
| date | merchant | total_amount | currency | tax_amount | category | client_tag | notes | file_name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-03 | Corner Hardware | 41.30 | USD | 3.40 | Supplies | shelf brackets | IMG_4412.HEIC | |
| 2026-09-09 | Staples | 63.45 | USD | 5.22 | Office | Harbor & Co. | staples-order-0909.pdf | |
| 2026-09-12 | Blue Bottle Coffee | 9.60 | USD | 0.79 | Meals | Harbor & Co. | client meeting | receipt-email.pdf |
| Sum | 3 receipts | 114.35 | 9.41 |
Excel may show 41.30 as 41.3 until you format the column. The file itself is plain text, one comma-separated line per receipt, which is why Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice can all read it. The file is named slipsheet-YYYYMMDD.csv after the day you export it.
By hand, in a folder, or exported
Typing receipts into Excel by hand works for a dozen. Past that, you're squinting at faded thermal paper, retyping totals, and catching transposed digits only when the month doesn't add up.
A folder of PDFs keeps every receipt, but it isn't a ledger. Nothing adds up until someone opens each file and copies the numbers out, usually at tax time.
The Slipsheet export starts from the files you already have. A vision model reads each photo, PDF, or forwarded email into a row. You check the row in the review queue, then export. The numbers in the file are the ones you confirmed.
Getting the file
Only reviewed receipts are exported. Export selected downloads the receipts you've ticked, up to 1,000 at a time, and marks them as exported, so next month's New filter only shows what's left. Export all downloads every reviewed receipt and doesn't mark anything, which is handy when someone wants the whole book. Either way you get the same nine columns.
The file is a CSV, not an .xlsx workbook. Excel opens it as a sheet. Save it as .xlsx if you plan to add formulas, formatting, or more tabs, because a CSV only keeps the values.
You can try it on your own receipts with Slipsheet's 14-day trial, no card needed.
A few straight answers
Can I export receipts to Excel with Slipsheet?
Yes. Slipsheet exports a CSV file with one row per reviewed receipt, and Excel opens it directly. It's a CSV, not an .xlsx workbook, so save it as .xlsx in Excel if you want to keep formulas or formatting in the same file.
What columns are included in the export?
Nine, always in this order: date, merchant, total_amount, currency, tax_amount, category, client_tag, notes, and file_name. Dates are YYYY-MM-DD, and amounts are plain numbers with two decimals. Blank fields stay blank.
Does the export work with Google Sheets?
Yes. The CSV is a plain file, so you can bring it into Google Sheets with File > Import and choose to replace or append data. Excel, LibreOffice, and Numbers open it too.
Can I change the column order?
Not inside Slipsheet. The columns come out in the same order every time, so formulas that point at a column keep working from one export to the next. If you want a different layout, rearrange the columns in Excel after you open the file.