Receipt Wrangler is an easy-to-use self-hosted receipt manager. Receipt Wrangler helps you quickly create receipts with the help of OCR/AI image scanning. Organize receipts for easy filtering. Share receipts and track expenses among multiple users. Upload receipts directly from your email, web app, and mobile app. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Receipt Wrangler on your Synology NAS using Docker & Portainer.

💡Note: This guide works perfectly with the latest Receipt Wrangler v5.4.1 release.

• STEP 1

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• STEP 2

Install Portainer using my step by step guide. If you already have Portainer installed on your Synology NAS, skip this STEP. Attention: Make sure you have installed the latest Portainer version.

• STEP 3

Go to File Station and open the docker folder. Inside the docker folder, create one new folder and name it receiptwrangler. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

• STEP 4

Now create four new folders inside the receiptwrangler folder that you have previously created at STEP 3 and name them data, db, logs. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

• STEP 5

Log into Portainer using your username and password. On the left sidebar in Portainer, click on Stacks then + Add stack. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 6

In the Name field type in receiptwrangler. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Note: Copy Paste the code below in the Portainer Stacks Web editor.

services:
  db:
    image: postgres:17
    container_name: Receipt-Wrangler-DB
    hostname: wrangler-db
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "pg_isready", "-q", "-d", "wrangler", "-U", "wrangleruser"]
      timeout: 45s
      interval: 10s
      retries: 10
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/receiptwrangler/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB: wrangler
      POSTGRES_USER: wrangleruser
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: wranglerpass
    restart: on-failure:5

  wrangler:
    image: noah231515/receipt-wrangler:latest
    container_name: Receipt-Wrangler
    healthcheck:
      test: timeout 10s bash -c ':> /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/80' || exit 1
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 90s
    entrypoint: ./entrypoint.sh
    restart: on-failure:5
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/receiptwrangler/data:/app/receipt-wrangler-api/sqlite:rw
      - /volume1/docker/receiptwrangler/logs:/app/receipt-wrangler-api/logs:rw
    environment:
       ENCRYPTION_KEY: mariushosting
       SECRET_KEY: XaR7SKwPXkU6uC6voLAqKzVWCdFqvmIa
       DB_USER: wrangleruser
       DB_PASSWORD: wranglerpass
       DB_NAME: wrangler
       DB_HOST: db
       DB_PORT: 5432
       DB_ENGINE: postgresql
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
    ports:
      - 9112:80

Note: Before you paste the code above in the Web editor area below, change the values for ENCRYPTION_KEY. Type in your own username. mariushosting is an example for a username. You should use your own username.
Note: Before you paste the code above in the Web editor area below, change the value for SECRET_KEY. (Generate your own 32 length SECRET_KEY.)

• STEP 7

Scroll down on the page until you see a button named Deploy the stack. Click on it. Follow the instructions in the image below. The installation process can take up to a few minutes. It will depend on your Internet speed connection.

⌛Now just wait because the Receipt Wrangler image is about 3GB.

• STEP 8

If everything goes right, you will see the following message at the top right of your screen: “Success Stack successfully deployed“.

• STEP 9

Go back to STEP 1 or you will deal with karma 🙂

• STEP 10

The installation process can take up to a few minutes or less, seconds. It will depend on your Internet speed connection. Now open your browser and type in http://Synology-ip-address:9112 Type in the default Username and Password, then click Login. Follow the instructions in the image below.

⚠️Warning: the default username is admin and the default password is admin

• STEP 11

Change the default Username and Password. On the left sidebar, click on the user icon then Manage Users. Edit the username and password. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 12

Add your own Receipts. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 13

Access the System Settings. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Enjoy Receipt Wrangler!

🆘TROUBLESHOOTING

If you encounter issues by using this container, make sure to check out the Common Docker issues article.

Note: If you want to run the Receipt Wrangler container over HTTPS, check How to Run Docker Containers Over HTTPS. In order to make Receipt Wrangler work via HTTPS, it’s mandatory to activate WebSocket.

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This post was updated on Friday / November 1st, 2024 at 1:49 AM