Receipt merges: finance needs legible totals and statement order—glare beats pretty layout
`receipt-photos-one-file` stacks phone photos for one mobile upload. Rejections come from decimals hugging the crop edge, torn QR corners failing OCR, or mixed currencies without a caption explaining tax rules. Sort by transaction time and mask card digits per policy—not per colleague habit.
`receipt-photos-one-file`: sort by trip time, straighten, pad, then verify totals clear of the bottom crop
- Rotate skewed photos, stack chronologically, and insert text bands when mixing currencies so finance knows which policy applies.
- Leave at least one text-line of margin around every receipt so portal rounding does not eat decimals; faded thermal shots get a note that originals were emailed separately.
- Mask card middles per policy; if PNG exceeds the portal cap, trim decorative whitespace before crushing text-heavy areas or split into two uploads tied to the same expense id.
Receipt merge FAQ: clipped fields, glare rescans, multi-currency labels, portal limits
Finance says a digit disappeared after upload—compression or tight crops?
Zoom to 100% to see if decimals remain; usually bottom-edge tightness or heavy JPEG did it. Re-export with more bottom padding, gentler compression, or lossless PNG plus a text total for humans.
Restaurant glare kills QR—can merging fix it?
No—reshoot flat on white with angled light or use a document scanner mode; attach a tight QR crop labeled authoritative if the collage is only for layout.
Euro and USD receipts in one PNG—reviewer demands split. Annotation workaround?
Prefix each block with colored bars (“EUR batch”, “USD batch”) tied to line items; if the system insists, output two PNGs instead of one ambiguous strip.
Show last four card digits for bank matching but security wants full mask—policy?
Follow the joint finance + infosec rule—usually last-four-only with the rest redacted—and re-export historical templates when the rule changes.
Merged PNG still >5 MB portal cap—how to keep amounts sharp?
Crop empty margins before crushing text; split into two linked files noted “continued”; if PDF is allowed, losslessly merge PNGs then let the PDF pipeline compress.