# Receipts

**URL:** <https://community.monzo.com/t/receipts/2003>\
**Category:** Feedback & Ideas\
**Created:** [12 April 2016 14:20 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/receipts/2003 "2016-04-12T14:20:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![rdingwall](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/rdingwall/32/58433_2.png) [@rdingwall](https://community.monzo.com/u/rdingwall)\
**Post date:** [12 April 2016 17:17 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/receipts/2003/2 "2016-04-12T17:17:14Z")

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> [@RossA](#):
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> I like the idea of taking a photograph of my receipts but it’s annoying that they also get saved in my photo stream. Is it possible to not have them save in the photo stream?

Photos are saved to your camera roll as a safety mechanism in case the photo upload fails. 💾

This is something we could potentially look at in future. What’s your specific use case? Are you attaching a high number of receipts?

> [@RossA](#):
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> For those retailers that email you the receipt it would be great if that could be attached (automatically would be great!)

Email receipts capture so much useful information but they’re quite difficult to use in practice. 🙁

@jelmer_snoeck and I did a [hackathon project](https://getmondo.co.uk/blog/2015/11/30/mondohack-2/) on this and we encountered several road blocks:

- No common identifier we can use to link card transactions with email messages
- Different email servers, protocols (not everyone uses Gmail!)
- No standard structure for receipt data - line items, quantities, prices, pictures etc
- PDFs, attached images, message open tracking links etc
- Requires a user to grant full access to their inbox

Instead for now we’re focused on:

- Specific integrations with a few key merchants e.g. TFL 🚄
- Encouraging other merchants (and third-party developers!) to use the Mondo API to enrich their customers transactions e.g. seeing your Nando’s Card balance after a purchase 🐔

We’re hoping in future that merchants could even add _actions_ to transactions. But that’s much further away 😉

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