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How to automatically archive receipts in Gmail

A step-by-step way to label and archive receipts as they arrive, keep them searchable at tax time, and stop them from filling your inbox.

Conduit LabsOctober 20, 20268 min read

Conduit's AI panel over a dimmed inbox: the typed request "archive receipts older than a month and label them Receipts", a rule card titled "Archive Old Receipts" with an Open button, and the assistant replying that the rule is live and that anything in Transactions older than 30 days now gets labeled Receipts and archived

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