Consumers

A product breaks and you need the receipt and warranty information for a return. But you haven’t kept your paperwork organized. Instead, you’re buried elbow-deep in yellowed papers, the ink faded beyond legibility. You’re not even sure if you kept the receipt.

You squint at the date and product name on a crumpled register receipt, sigh, and toss it aside. You’ll get to filing them later, when you’re not in a time crunch. Did you buy your iPod at Best Buy or the Apple store? If only you could remember.

Filing receipts is often the last task on a busy person’s to-do list, which often means it doesn’t get done. When a product breaks, you pay the price, settling for store credit if you make a return or paying for repairs because you lost the warranty information.

But if you have a computer, Internet access and a scanner or digital camera, the days of searching stacks of papers for an old receipt are over.

Yarraa.com lets you input all your receipt and warranty information, where it is safely stored on Yarraa’s secure servers. You’ll probably find that entering product receipt information is the feature you use most frequently on Yarraa. How do you do it?

Entering product information is easy and intuitive. On the left side of the screen, after you login and “skip introduction,” click the big green button that reads: “Click here to Add Product.”

On the right side of the screen, enter the requested information. Any information with a red star beside it is required information. When you are finished, click “next.” You will now have the opportunity to enter warranty information and to upload a JPG of a receipt – either a scanned image or a photograph.

If you don’t want to do this right away – perhaps you don’t have the extended warranty information in front of you – you can click “submit” and your product will be saved in the database. You can return at any time to edit the information or add more details about your warranty.

You’ll find the process goes quickly if you want to enter a large backlog of receipts so you can file them away in a box or filing cabinet, or even recycle them. Your information is safe on Yarraa.

Now, with all that paper clutter off your desk, don’t you feel better? And, look, there’s that iPod receipt, at the very bottom of the pile.