Sharing some platforms I tried to earn a little extra money from my shopping receipts

Black Friday + early Christmas shopping did some damage to my wallet, so I thought I'd try earning a bit back. I ended up finding a few apps where you can turn your receipts or Amazon orders into small rewards, so I tested them.

After running a batch of recent orders through them, the payouts per order landed in these ranges:

• Receipt Hog
This one uses a coin system. Different types of receipts earn different ranges of coins, and payouts are based on points (for example: 1,000 coins = $5, more give slightly better rates).

With Amazon orders usually landing somewhere around 5–20 coins for me, the math works out to roughly $0.03–$0.10 per order.

• Fetch
Fetch is pure points. A single Amazon order in my case was typically worth about 25 points, and their catalog is basically 1,000 points ≈ $1 in rewards. That puts an average order at around $0.02–$0.03.

• Shopkick
Shopkick pays in "kicks" that convert into gift cards. I ran through my recent Amazon purchases, most of them ended up being worth around $0.04 or slightly above each.

• ReceiptPal
ReceiptPal is more "slow burn": you fill up cards with uploads and then get a fixed-value reward when a card is complete. When I spread that reward back over the number of receipts it took to fill a card, my average came out to roughly under one cent per order, about $0.008.

• CoinOut
CoinOut gives a small cash amount per upload instead of points. The value per order is randomized, but in my tests it bounced between about $0.01 and $0.07 per receipt.

• DataDance
This one is a bit different because it currently focuses only on Amazon order uploads. You get 10 Points per order, and their redemption rate is 750 Points = $5 in gift cards — which works out to around $0.06–$0.07 per order in my tests.

Here's how I'd look at these apps after trying them:

• If you want higher payouts per order, Receipt Hog, CoinOut, and DataDance were the ones that gave me the most noticeable return.

• If you want the easiest workflow, Fetch and ReceiptPal are the most hands-off, while DataDance's Amazon auto-sync is also convenient if most of your shopping is there.

• If you upload all kinds of receipts (not just Amazon), the older apps like Receipt Hog / Fetch / CoinOut still make more sense because they accept much broader categories.
That's pretty much what I found. If anyone knows apps that give better value for Amazon orders or general receipts, feel free to drop them.