How many of you remember the idea my friend and partner in crime Lovisa presented in her elevator pitch? She gave you Recitrack, an app collecting and keeping track of all your receipts. Imagine my surprise when I found out that my friend Patrik had been secretly working on the same idea for half a year, and asked his Facebook friends for some help a week ago!
The main idea is that when you buy something the receipt will, either by you scanning a QR-code or automatically, be sent to an app in your phone. Since my friend is in an early stage still developing both the idea and business model, I gave him some advices as a highly enthusiastic future customer.
- In the app you should be able to categorize your receipts – and gladly name your own categories if possible
- The app should be able to send the receipts as PDF’s or similar, while some people (I, for instance) prefer to bring the paper version in case of complaints
- The search engine must be able to use many different filters – if it is a coffee maker, you may forget where you bought it, but remember approximately price and how old it is, etc.
- As a user you should be able to choose which kind of receipts you want to store for a certain amount of time – a few days for certain purchase, and years for others
Did I miss some “need to have”- or “nice to have”-feature? Let me know in the comments below, and I will forward it to Patrik. 🙂
I also helped him by filling out a market research – maybe you could help him by doing the same? (Unfortunately everything is in Swedish, apologize for that!)
The group Emax is the Facebook community associated with the event for young entrepreneurs, which I have been telling you about before.
