URL: Receipthog.com
Download for Android: Google Playstore
Download for IOS: iTunes Store
About this app:
Take pictures of your receipts from any store, restaurant or cafe. Earn Receipt Hog rewards like coins, spins at the virtual slot machine, and sweepstakes prizes. Cash out with PayPal or Amazon gift cards.
Publisher:
ScoutIt Inc
(InfoScout)
322 Ritch Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Email support@receipthog.zendesk.com
Privacy Policy
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Parameters of the program (The legal stuff):
Receipt images uploaded through the app must legibly include the retailer name, all individual items purchased and their prices, the total amount paid and transaction date. If any of this receipt information is illegible or missing, your receipt may not earn Awards.
Receipt images must be uploaded within 14-days of the in-store transaction to be eligible for Awards. The same receipt may not be uploaded more than once. Up to 3 receipts per retailer per transaction date may be eligible for rewards. You may only submit real, unmodified receipts for shopping trips that you were part of.
Receipts that earn coins must be for purchases at stores that sell grocery products as their primary line of business, including: supercenters, grocers, clubs, drug, dollar, pet supply, beauty supply & convenience stores. Receipts that earn spins for the Hog Slots must be for purchases at other stores, including: clothing and apparel stores, electronics stores, home improvement stores, & arts and crafts stores. Receipts that earn coins or spins and receipts from restaurants and gas-only purchases may earn sweepstakes entries. Other receipts such as credit card slips and services invoices are not eligible.
The minimum Award redemption value is $5 (1,000 Coins).
All redemption requests will be processed within 7-days of their submission.
ScoutIt Inc. reserves the right to decide who may use the Receipt Hog app.
ScoutIt Inc. may freeze or eliminate your Receipt Hog Account after three consecutive months of inactivity. This will be at ScoutIt Inc.'s discretion.
ScoutIt Inc. may freeze or eliminate your Receipt Hog Account if fraudulent activity is suspected and/or if receipts submitted are not the direct result of your shopping activity. Specifically, you may NOT submit receipts resulting from shopping trips that you were not a part of or that have been modified in any way.
According to the official website, users of the app are in complete control over the information they choose to share with Receipt Hog. Receipt Hog does not sell personal data to marketers; it is aggregated for use in anonymous market research reports. Receipt Hog will not see credit or bank card numbers. Receipts are legally forbidden to include credit or bank card numbers.
If a user desires any specific items on a receipt to not be visible to Receipt Hog, simply mark over them before taking pictures of the receipt so that they cannot be read.
The official privacy policy of Receipt Hog, as of 2016.
How the program works
Receipt Hog is a program of market research company. ScoutIt Inc. works with the leading consumer goods brands and retailers. Uploaded receipt data along with the answers to any survey questions are made anonymous and summarized in market research reports for the brands that purchase this data. Some of the money from these purchases are then passed on to app users.
Receipt types
Coin-Receipts are receipts from retailers that primarily sell fast-moving consumer products. Coin-Receipts earns coin rewards based on the receipt's total.
Retailer types include:
Grocery / Supermarket
Supercenter
Club (Cash and Carry)
Discount
Health (Chemist)
Bargain (Dollar / Pound Shops)
Drug & Pharmacy
Liquor (Off-License)
Convenience & Corner Stores
Beauty Supply
Pet Supply
Toy Stores
Mom-and-Pops, Bodegas & Newsagents
Spin-Receipts are receipts from all other retailers. Each Spin Receipt earns a spin for the Hog Slots, a casino-style slot game that features various prizes.
Retailer types include:
Apparel
Auto Part Retailers
Department
Home Improvement
Home Furnishings
Office Supply
Electronics
Arts & Crafts
Sports & Outdoors
Sweepstakes-Only Receipts
Every receipt earns an entry into the monthly Sweepstakes drawing. Sweepstake prizes include 20, 200, or 5,000 coins. This includes all Coin-Receipts and Spin-Receipts and:
Gas / Petrol-only Receipts
Receipts from Restaurants & Bars
Receipts from Bakeries, Delis, and Cafes
Receipt Types that Do Not Qualify for Rewards
Ticket Stubs
Service Invoices
Credit Card Slips
Hand-Written Receipts
Receipts Older Than 14 days
Refund/Return of Purchase Slips
Non-Standard Receipts Not Printed From a Cash Register
Receipts From Non-Retailer Businesses (i.e. service, entertainment, government, utilities)
Qualifying
To qualify for rewards, receipt uploads must contain the following in clear & unaltered form:
- Store name
- List of Items Purchased with Prices
- Transaction Total
- Date of Transaction
Receipts with ambiguous store names, missing the purchased items entirely, or receipts that are cut off/too faded in any of those 4 areas will not be rewarded.
This usually means one of the following occurred:
1. Uploading a receipt more than once
If a receipt is uploaded more than once, whether that receipt is still processing or not, the receipt will be flagged as a duplicate.
2. Hidden receipts
Hiding receipts does not delete them. They will continue to process even after being hidden from the Receipts page. If a receipt that was hidden is re-uploaded, whether finished processing or still processing, the receipt will be flagged as a duplicate.
3. Sharing receipts
If a receipt is uploaded that was already uploaded by another Receipt Hog user, the receipt will be flagged as a duplicate.
Rewards may change from receipt to receipt
According to the official website, the accuracy of their database is constantly being evaluated, so corrections to retailer categorizations may occur as companies move around and new products are being introduced into the marketplace. On occasion, stores are re-categorized to a more appropriate industry in the consumer marketplace. Receipts earn rewards depending on retailer type. When a retailer is "corrected", it means they are categorized within the system to reflect the broader marketplace, and re-categorizing it under a different retailer type, (for example, store from grocery to non-grocery or vice versa). This is based entirely on industry standard classifications.
Referral program:
As of this writing, the referral program has been discontinued. In fact, there is of this writing, a waiting list for acceptance into the program.
