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Capture problems
A scan that fails, gets rejected before upload, or looks wrong once it lands.
The on-device quality check rejects a blurry shot or one that doesn’t look like a document before it ever uploads. Lay the receipt flat, avoid glare across the total, and get the whole receipt in frame.
An exact re-upload of the same image is recognised immediately and treated as one capture, not two — you’ll be pointed at the existing record rather than getting an error.
A same-supplier, same-amount, same-day match is only ever soft-flagged for you to check — it is never merged automatically, because two identical purchases on one day can both be real.
Capture a multi-page tax invoice as one multi-page document rather than one photo per page, so the line items reconcile against a single total.
Extraction accuracy and corrections
A field the model got wrong, or understanding why something was flagged.
The model is instructed to leave a field blank rather than guess when it isn’t confident — a wrong figure is worse than a missing one. Fill it in on the review screen.
This shouldn’t happen — once you correct or confirm a field it is locked against being overwritten by a machine re-run. If you’ve seen this, contact support with the document so it can be investigated.
The review screen shows the specific check that failed — an ABN that didn’t validate, a total that didn’t reconcile with the line items, or similar — rather than a generic low-confidence notice.
Check for a transposed digit from the photo first — the checksum is exact. If the ABN is correct and still fails, it may have been re-typed incorrectly during capture; correct it on the review screen.
BAS and GST questions
Understanding a BAS figure, or why some GST shows as unclaimable.
You need a valid tax invoice to claim a GST credit once a purchase reaches $82.50 including GST. A receipt missing required details — often the supplier’s ABN — shows up in the unclaimable-GST report instead of label 1B.
Check whether your workspace is set to Simpler BAS (G1, 1A, 1B only) or the full seven-label method — this is a per-workspace setting.
The report checks 1A against roughly a tenth of G1 and 1B against roughly a tenth of reportable purchases before showing you anything — a flag here means the period is worth a closer look before lodging.
Xero connection
Connecting, syncing, or disconnecting Xero.
Xero limits how many requests can be made per minute per organisation, so pushes go through a queue. A large batch can take a short while to fully land — it hasn’t failed, it’s queued.
Disconnect from your workspace’s connection settings. This revokes the stored access token immediately; it doesn’t remove anything already pushed to Xero.
No — only confirmed, posted transactions sync, so Xero always shows what your books show.
Billing and quota
Plans, scan limits, and what happens when you reach them.
Nothing is ever dropped — the image is still stored and you’ll be offered a top-up. Extraction resumes as soon as quota is available again.
Yes — talk to Support or, on a Practice plan, your firm’s administrator.
Practice billing is managed by your firm, at the firm level, not per client — contact your firm’s administrator first.
Data export and retention
Getting your data out, and how long it’s kept.
Export a tax pack — a CSV of transactions, a PDF BAS summary, and every original receipt image, foldered by quarter and category.
Five years from when a record was prepared or its transaction completed, matching ATO requirements, then it’s removed by an automated purge.
Yes, through Support. Records still inside their mandatory five-year window are closed out of active use but can’t be deleted until that window passes.
Contact support
Couldn't find your answer above? Email support@snapapps.com.au with your workspace name and, if it's about a specific document, its date and supplier so we can find it quickly. If you're on a Practice plan, your firm's administrator can also raise it on your behalf.
Expected response time by plan
| Plan | Typical response |
|---|---|
| Free | Best-effort, typically within 3 business daysDocs and Support search cover most questions. |
| Sole Trader | Within 1 business day |
| Practice | Same business day |
| Practice Plus | Priority queue — within 4 business hours |
These are targets, not a contractual guarantee — see the Terms of Service.
System status
A manually-maintained snapshot, not a live monitoring feed. If something looks wrong here or in the app and it isn't reflected below, contact support — that's the fastest way to reach us about an outage.