How to match hundreds of missing receipts to expenses automatically
If you're staring at a spreadsheet of expenses with no receipts attached, Plow's receipt-matcher skill can search your Gmail and local files overnight and match them automatically. You install Plow to run an OpenClaw container on your Mac, connect the sources you choose, then paste in the ClawHub skill URL and drop your bank's transaction CSV into iMessage. With a local model, your email and files never have to leave your machine — Plow sandboxes OpenClaw so you stay in control of what it can access.
Chapters
- 0:00 The receipt backlog problem
- 0:20 How Plow and OpenClaw work
- 0:41 Install Plow and enable connectors
- 1:04 Run the receipt matcher skill
Useful links
Full transcript
Do you have this problem where you have hundreds or thousands of business expenses that need receipts? Maybe it's tax season or your boss won't reimburse you without them. I don't know, I just hate matching receipts to transactions. I always put this off and this happens to me. I'm procrastinating and then I have a huge list of expenses with no receipts. I don't even remember what half of these are. So I built the skill which uses OpenClaw with my Plow connectors to search my computer for receipts and match them. But more importantly, it does it while respecting my privacy. So to use it, start by downloading Plow to install the OpenClaw container. Plow sandboxes OpenClaw so that you're in control of your data. Go to plow.co and start an iMessage conversation. After signing up, you'll use the same thread to message your OpenClaw container that's running on your computer. But first, you'll be texted a link to download Plow. Once you download it, just open the DMG and drag Plow into your applications folder. Then open Plow. That'll install a sandbox OpenClaw on your Mac. You'll need to give Plow access to things you want it to use, so enable connectors like Gmail. With Plow, you'll have control over how OpenClaw uses those connectors. And you can monitor it all in your menu bar. Once the Plow Starter container is running with OpenClaw, you can ask it to install the receipt matcher skill by just pasting in the ClawHub URL. While that's installing, go to your bank's website and download a CSV of transactions without receipts. And then just drop the CSV into iMessage and ask it to run. You can see here that it worked through the night and it matched hundreds of receipts to their expenses. That's it. You can use the extra time to go touch grass.