How much does Receipt Hog pay?

Receipt Hog is the fourth answer we have found to this question and the first one where the arithmetic finishes. It publishes what a receipt earns, in four bands. It publishes what a coin is worth, at four prices. Multiply the two and the guaranteed half of this app comes to fifty cents a week. The reason nobody quotes that figure is not that it is hidden. It is that the interesting half of Receipt Hog sits above the cap, and none of that half has a number attached to it at all.

What one receipt pays

Receipts from stores that mostly sell consumable goods are Coin-Receipts, and Receipt Hog calls the table below the standard breakdown. It is measured on the transaction total, which its help center defines as the final amount after tax, coupons, gift cards and EBT, SNAP or WIC discounts — what you actually paid, not what the cart rang up to.

• Under $10 — 5 coins. Two and a half cents.
• $10 to $50 — 10 coins. Five cents.
• $50 to $100 — 15 coins. Seven and a half cents.
• $100 or more — 20 coins. Ten cents, and this band has no upper edge.

The cent figures are derived, at the minimum redemption rate of 1,000 coins for $5, which makes a coin worth half a cent. The important feature of the table is the last line: because the top band is open, a $500 trip earns exactly what a $100 trip earns. As a share of what you spent, the best rate in the app is a $10 basket at 0.5%, and a $300 trip returns about 0.03%.

Those percentages are worth stating and then setting aside, because Receipt Hog is a market research panel rather than a cashback app, and comparing it to Ibotta on that number would be a category error. Nothing you buy gets cheaper here. You are being paid a small fee for the record of the purchase, which is why the fee barely moves when the purchase gets bigger. Receipts from restaurants, bars, cafes, bakeries and gas-only stops earn a sweepstakes entry instead, and receipts from clothing, hardware and electronics stores earn one spin of the Hog Slots.

The week stops at fifty cents

Once 100 coins have come from receipts inside one of Receipt Hog's weeks, every further receipt that week earns 5 coins and a sweepstakes entry regardless of the total on it. Three published limits decide how quickly you reach that ceiling, and none of them lets you past it.

• Twenty Coin-Receipts a week, inside a total of 60 paper receipts: 20 coin, 20 spin, 20 sweepstakes. Anything beyond 20 in a category is not accepted and not rewarded.
• Three receipts per store, per transaction date, wherever the branch is and whenever you upload them. They count as they finish processing, so if you send more than three at once the first three to process are the ones that qualify.
• Fourteen days from the transaction, measured on the receipt's own date and time.

So there are two ways to fill a week and they are worth the same. Five receipts over $100 make 100 coins. Twenty receipts under $10 make 100 coins. Either way the week is fifty cents, and the difference between $50 of groceries and $500 of groceries is nothing at all.

The year, and the button that changes it by a quarter

Receipt Hog's weeks are its own: the 1st to the 7th, the 8th to the 14th, the 15th to the 21st, and the 22nd to the end of the month, in UTC. Four to a month means 48 a year, not 52. A year of hitting the ceiling every week is therefore 4,800 coins, and that number is where the redemption ladder starts to matter.

The four prices are identical across PayPal, an Amazon e-gift card and a Visa e-gift card, and they are not proportional:

• 1,000 coins for $5 — 0.500¢ a coin.
• 2,900 coins for $15 — 0.517¢ a coin.
• 4,300 coins for $25 — 0.581¢ a coin.
• 6,500 coins for $40 — 0.615¢ a coin, which is 23% more than the bottom rung.

Now apply that to the maxed-out year. 4,800 coins is $20 or $25 depending on nothing but which button you press. Cashed out at the minimum, it is four redemptions of $5 with 800 coins stranded below the threshold. Held for the 4,300-coin tier, it is a single $25 payment with 500 coins left over. Same shopping, same uploading, twenty-five percent apart. Both figures are derived from Receipt Hog's published cap and published price list.

That is awkward for us, because this site's standing advice is to redeem at the first threshold you are allowed to, and it costs money here. The same thing happened on Swagbucks, where the advice is right and cashing out small carries a surcharge. The resolution is the same as it was there: say what the advice costs on this specific app, then let the reader weigh it. What sits on the other side of the scale is Receipt Hog's own inactivity rule — three months without an upload and the account can be eliminated, with coins, spins and sweepstakes entries expiring with it. Waiting for the top tier means 65 weeks of uninterrupted uploading, and the help center and the terms do not agree on what counts as keeping the account alive. The terms name three ways: uploading receipts, sharing purchase data, or making a redemption request. The help-center article names one, a paper receipt upload.

Two smaller conditions belong with the ladder. A first redemption is gated on completing an introductory questionnaire and verifying your email and device, so the $5 is not reachable on receipts alone. And the Visa e-gift card carries its own clock: three months from redeeming to activate it, six months to spend it.

The half of the app with no arithmetic in it

Everything above the 100-coin ceiling is a draw, and Receipt Hog publishes the prizes for some of them and the odds for none. This is not a complaint about the sweepstakes, which is real, published in full and unusually specific. It is a description of where the numbers stop.

• The monthly sweepstakes prize table is exact. One user wins 50,000 coins, 500 win 100, 1,000 win 75, 2,500 win 50, 15,000 win 10 and 75,000 win 5. That is 94,001 prizes and 825,000 coins a month, which is about $4,125 at the minimum rate — our arithmetic on their table. It also means about 96% of the prizes are worth five cents or less, and the commonest prize, 5 coins, is what a receipt under $10 pays anyway.
• The odds are not published, because the number of entries is not. Every qualifying receipt earns one, up to 60 a week.
• The Hog Slots pay on three of a kind in the middle row, and the help center says to look in the app for the winning combinations. Receipt Hog's own FAQ post puts the jackpot at up to 10,000 coins, which laddered at the best rate is about $55.
• One Daily Trip Winner a day earns coins equal to the total on their last uploaded receipt, up to 18,000. That is the only place in the app where spending more pays more: a coin a dollar, against a normal receipt's ceiling of 20 coins.
• Levels are counted in weeks, not receipts. There are 40 of them, you earn one XP per week in which you submit a qualifying receipt, and higher levels take more weeks. The bonus is spins at the bottom and coins higher up, and no article we can find says how many.
• Surveys have no published rate at all. The help-center article titled “What do I earn for completing a survey?” answers that surveys mean greater opportunities for larger coin rewards.

Two of those prizes are worth converting, because they put the guaranteed half in proportion. The 50,000-coin grand prize redeems, laddered at the best available tiers, for about $305, and it is 500 weeks of maxed-out receipt uploading, which is more than ten years. The 18,000-coin daily ceiling is about $105, or nearly four years of the same. The lottery half is where the money in this app actually is, which is a legitimate design and the reason the receipt cap can be so low.

What a connected account is worth, in coins

The most useful number on this page for anyone deciding how much of their shopping history to hand over is one almost no reward app prints. Connecting an Amazon account pays 36 coins once — 18 cents — plus five sweepstakes entries for every month the connection stays live, and individual e-receipts earn nothing on their own. The Email Connect Program is described identically, and its article contains two different figures: 36 coins in the list at the top, and “100 bonus coins for 30 seconds of your time” two paragraphs later. We have not found a reading that reconciles them, so both are recorded here as published.

Set that against what the terms say is being licensed. Section 9 grants Numerator a non-exclusive, sub-licensable, fully paid-up, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and transferable right over what you submit, and since the terms dated 12 November 2025 it says explicitly that the material may be used with artificial intelligence systems or machine learning models, including to train or improve them. That is a broad grant and it is not unusual; what is unusual is being able to put a published price next to it. The price of one grocery receipt is 5 to 20 coins.

Our own side of this trade is set out in how reward apps make money and what these apps can see. Ours take an advertising identifier and show ads. Neither arrangement is free, and the only question is which one you mind less.

The whole sum, side by side

Same rows as the other pages in this format, so all four compare. Every Receipt Hog figure is published or derived from a published one, read on 27 August 2026.

The row that matters is the sixth. Everything Receipt Hog guarantees is in the rows above it and adds up to about $25 a year. Everything that could beat that is in the row itself, and none of it can be worked out in advance.

What Receipt Hog does better than we do

This section is on every page we write about a competitor, and on the narrow question this page asks, Receipt Hog beats almost everything else we have looked at, including us.

• It publishes both halves of the fraction. A rate per receipt and a price per coin, both without an account. Mistplay publishes neither, Sweatcoin publishes one, and our own Step and Earn page gives a coin's value without ever saying what a milestone pays.
• The redemption ladder rewards waiting. Most of this category charges you for patience or for the lack of it. Receipt Hog's worst rate is the one you get for cashing out immediately, and 23% is a real difference.
• It pays cash. PayPal, or Amazon and Visa cards if you prefer. Fetch, the other big receipt app, pays no cash at any threshold.
• The effort is retrospective. You already did the shopping. Nothing we make pays for something you finished before opening the app.
• Its ceiling is above ours. Fifty cents a week from receipts beats the roughly thirty-five cents a week Todo and Earn works out at over the forty days it takes to reach $2.00, and that is before a single spin or survey.
• It is on Android, where three of our four are not.

Four ways this question gets answered

With four of these pages written, the pattern has stopped being about individual apps. Which of these four cases you are in tells you what to do next, and Receipt Hog adds the one that was missing.

• Both halves published. Swagbucks. Do the division, read the same reward at every denomination, and the answer is a number you can act on.
• The rate published, the price hidden. Sweatcoin. You can calculate a ceiling to one decimal place and still have no dollar figure.
• Neither published, and the rate is personal. Mistplay, whose terms say different users may be paid differently for identical actions.
• Both halves published for the capped part, and neither for the rest. Receipt Hog, and this page. The arithmetic finishes, and it finishes at fifty cents a week.

The fourth case is the one worth carrying to the next app in this category, because it suggests a rule rather than a verdict. The numbers a company publishes tend to be the bounded ones. Receipt Hog can print the receipt bands and the coin ladder precisely because a week cannot exceed 100 coins. The slot combinations, the level bonuses, the survey rates and the sweepstakes odds have no ceiling written into them, and none of those is printed anywhere outside the app. When you find a company being unusually precise, check what the precision is fencing in.

One number is published about the whole of it and only one. Receipt Hog's App Store listing says its shoppers earn billions of coins every year, and unlike most claims of that shape this one converts, because the price list is public: a billion coins is $5 million at the minimum rate. That is the only figure here we would treat as marketing rather than arithmetic, and it is still the largest published number in this app by a wide margin.