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How It
Works.

No bank access. No magic. Just smart infrastructure.

Overview

SubScouter works without connecting to your bank or reading your email inbox. Instead, you get a private scan address. You forward receipts to it — manually or via an inbox rule — and our AI extracts the billing data instantly. Your raw email is never stored.

1. Free Tier — Manual Forwarding

The Mechanic

When you sign up, you receive a private scan address (e.g. a1b2c3d4@subscouter.com). Whenever you receive a subscription receipt, you forward it to that address. Our system strips the metadata, sends the raw text to our AI parser, and adds the subscription to your dashboard instantly.

The Limits

We parse up to 50 forwarded receipts per month and track up to 5 active subscriptions. It is free because you do the forwarding manually — the computational overhead is minimal.

2. Pro Tier — Full Automation

Auto-Forwarding Rules

Instead of manually forwarding, you set up one inbox rule in Gmail or Outlook that automatically routes any email containing "receipt", "invoice", or "subscription" to your scan address. From that point, everything is automatic.

Advanced Parsing

With unlimited volume unlocked, we deploy heavier AI models to extract merchant name, billing cycle, price, currency, and next renewal date with near-perfect accuracy.

Proactive Alerts

Because we know the exact renewal cadence, we send you alerts 3 to 30 days before each charge and provide one-click cancellation guides.

3. Team Tier — Company-Wide Visibility

The Problem It Solves

In most companies, employees buy software on corporate cards and the receipts land in their personal inboxes. Finance has no visibility — leading to massive shadow IT waste when employees leave or switch tools.

How It Tracks

The Admin creates a Workspace and invites up to 10 team members. Each member gets their own private scan address and sets up their own auto-forwarding rule. All parsed data is funnelled into one centralized admin dashboard.

Admin Superpowers

One-click CSV export of all company subscriptions, duplicate SaaS detection across employees, and a unified bill so employees get Pro features without individual subscriptions.

Slack Renewal Radar

Connect a webhook and every upcoming renewal above your threshold (default: $50) is automatically posted to your team's finance channel — before the charge hits.

What We Never Do

  • Connect to or read your bank account
  • Read the content of your personal, non-financial emails
  • Store your original forwarded emails after parsing
  • Sell your data to any third party
  • Access your email inbox directly
How It Works — SubScouter