There is one thing I hear more and more often when I speak to other founders: “I do not want another app.”
And honestly, I get it.
Even tech founders have app fatigue. Most of us already have too many tools open every single day.
But as a founder, you probably already use WhatsApp to run half your company. You message your team, answer customer questions, chase suppliers and stay in touch with leads. It is already where your operational life happens.
So at Husk we asked ourselves a simple question: What if you could manage receipts through the one app you already open every day?
That question led to our newest feature: Whatsapp receipt matching. In this blog I explain how it works, why we built it and how it saves you valuable time.
Receipt matching is still painful for startups
Even with spend management tools, receipt capture is one of the slowest and most frustrating parts of finance.
People forget. They delay it. They lose the paper. They never open the app.
And by the time you try to reconcile everything, the receipt is gone or buried somewhere.
You already know this pain if you:
- chase team members for missing receipts
- manually match images to transactions
- deal with broken OCR
- wait until month-end to clean up the mess
- try to reconcile something that happened 14 days ago
All of this creates friction. And friction always creates hidden costs.
And if there's one thing we've learned from speaking to founders is that startups just don't need more tools.
How Whatsapp receipt matching works
We built this feature with one goal: reduce friction to zero.
Here is what happens when you send a photo of your receipt to your Husk WhatsApp contact:
- Husk reads the receipt
- We identify the transaction automatically
- The expense gets matched and categorized
- Husk posts it directly to your dashboard
- We handle everything else in the background.
So what's in it for you and your team?
You don't need to download another app.
You don't need to create an account.
You don't sign into anything.
You don't need to learn to navigate another tool.
Whatsapp receipt matching is expense management that fits into your day, not the other way around.
Why whatsapp is the perfect interface for this
Most apps demand your attention. WhatsApp sits quietly in your pocket until you need it. That is why it works.
It is the lowest friction environment possible:
- everyone already knows how to send a photo
- no onboarding required
- no extra passwords
- no mobile app to update
- no new habits to learn
If receipt capture is easy, people do it immediately. And when people do it immediately, finance teams stop chasing them and reconciliation becomes real time.
This is what automation should feel like.
This matters for your runway, because...
Every receipt you do not capture on time becomes:
- manual work for finance
- missing data in your tools
- inaccurate reporting
- unexpected end-of-month corrections
- small budget leaks that add up
Small inefficiencies scale faster than revenue does. Which means saving time and removing friction is not just convenience. It is cost control.
Real-time receipts lead to real-time financial visibility, and that is exactly what early-stage companies need.
Part of a bigger mission at Husk
WhatsApp receipt matching is not just a feature. It is part of how we think about the future of spend management.
Our goal at Husk is simple: remove friction from every part of startup finance.
You already see this in:
- virtual cards for every expense
- real-time transaction tracking
- insights that reveal waste before it becomes expensive
- live burn rate and runway visibility
- automated workflows that do not require onboarding
WhatsApp receipt matching is the next step toward making startup finances feel effortless.
Try it yourself
If you want to experience how simple this can be, WhatsApp receipt matching is now live for every Husk user.
Try Husk for free and see your expense management improve drastically.
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