ReceiptHero
Founded 2018 · 16 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
ReceiptHero enables merchants to replace paper receipts with digital alternatives that integrate with POS systems and payment networks. The platform serves retailers seeking to reduce operational costs and environmental impact while improving customer experience and loyalty.
Also known as Receipt Hero
Founders & leadership
ReceiptHero was founded in 2018 by Saku Pihlajaniemi.
Investors · 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026ReceiptHero is a Finland-based fintech that replaces paper receipts with itemised digital receipts delivered automatically to the apps consumers already use. When a customer pays by card or phone, the platform matches the transaction to the customer's payment identity through card-linked technology and routes a line-item receipt to their banking, fintech, expense or accounting application, without the customer providing an email address or scanning a code. Where card-linked delivery is not available, receipts can also be delivered by NFC tap (the terminal or a counter tag emulating an NFC tag opens the receipt in a browser), by dynamic QR code shown on the terminal or customer display, or retrieved afterwards via a merchant landing page or secure portal where the customer enters card number, amount and transaction date.
The receipts themselves carry Level 3 / itemised data including products with EAN codes and a full VAT breakdown, and are white-labelled to the merchant's brand. Additional layers include embedded marketing and coupons, private customer feedback capture, ESG and sustainability tracking, and Apple Wallet and Google Wallet loyalty passes, stamp cards and vouchers that can be offered directly from the receipt. Merchants use a dashboard (portal.receipthero.io) for receipt branding, feedback management, a searchable receipt archive with export for accounting and compliance, onboarding of stores, branches and terminals, digital stamp cards and delivery/engagement analytics.
The company positions the service across four segments: retail and hospitality; EV charging, where digital receipts are framed as a route to AFIR compliance without hardware changes; expense and telecom expense management, where real-time card-linked itemised feeds substitute for OCR of photographed receipts; and payment service providers and POS vendors, who transmit Level 3 receipt data to ReceiptHero via API or SDK to add digital receipts to their own offering. The company is PCI DSS compliant, which allows it to store payment data for matching receipts to customer cards.
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Competitors · 1
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Timeline · 13
launches, deals, and filingsReceiptHero and Finnpark announced digital receipts for parking transactions.
ReceiptHero announced a partnership with Taksi Helsinki to deliver fully digital, automated receipts for taxi passengers, covering both in-car and in-app payments.
ReceiptHero partnered with Netvisor, an accounting and financial management solution, to simplify digital receipt management.
ReceiptHero joined Visa Fintech Partner Connect, a program connecting Visa issuing clients with vetted fintech providers, to bring digital receipts to Visa's clients and partners.
ReceiptHero announced a deepened partnership with payments technology company Verifone, which selected it as a global digital receipt partner.
ReceiptHero and Worldline, following ReceiptHero's win in the E-Payments Challenge, became business partners supporting the move from paper receipts to digital checkout.
ReceiptHero announced partnerships with Finnish retailer HalpaHalli, ceramics and textiles brand Pentik, and cashless payment solutions company CoreGo.
Finovate reported new funding for ReceiptHero with participation from SuperHero VC, SeedX VC, LifeLine VC, angel investors and team members. The amount was not disclosed. The company said the funding would accelerate its goal of eliminating paper receipts and creating greater value from real-time receipt data.
ReceiptHero partnered with cash register and payment terminal solution Solmio-kassa and with TuloPOS, a point of sale and ordering system for hospitality.
ReceiptHero integrated with Shopify to bring digital receipts to the e-commerce platform.
ReceiptHero announced a €2 million seed round led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from Superhero Capital and Sweden's Vidici Ventures. Proceeds were earmarked for platform development, PCI DSS compliance, value-added services on receipt data, additional POS and PSP integrations, expansion into the Baltics and Sweden, and hiring developers and country managers. Samuli Leppänen of Lifeline Ventures joined the board.
ReceiptHero announced a partnership with SEB to integrate digital receipts into the Eurocard proposition and later into SEB's retail banking app; the company was already working with Nordea via Nordea Wallet.
Before ReceiptHero, the founding team sold eTasku, a Finnish expense-handling startup, to Accountor Group in 2018.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does ReceiptHero do?
- Finnish fintech delivering itemised digital receipts to shoppers' banking, fintech and expense apps via card-linked matching.
- Who founded ReceiptHero?
- ReceiptHero was founded by Saku Pihlajaniemi in 2018.
- Who are ReceiptHero's investors?
- ReceiptHero's investors include Goose Valley Ventures, Lifeline Ventures, Superhero Capital.