What Stores Does a Receipt Scanner App Support?

The simplest answer: a modern AI receipt scanner reads any clearly printed grocery receipt in a supported country. It doesn't matter whether you shopped at Tesco or a tiny independent grocer — the AI reads the text on the receipt, not a store-specific template. So the right question is really "what countries does the scanner support," and within those countries every major chain works.

This article lists what's covered by Fango in 2026 — by country, then by chain — and explains how AI-based scanners differ from older template-matching ones that did need store-by-store programming.

Why "what stores" is the wrong question

Old-school receipt scanners worked store-by-store. The developer added a template for Tesco, another for Sainsbury's, another for Walmart, and so on — and your scanner only worked on stores that had been explicitly programmed in. New chain? You waited for an update.

AI receipt scanners read the text directly, so they work on any chain whose receipts use standard Latin-script characters and a normal price format. Fango sends the receipt (or its extracted text, on iOS) to Anthropic Claude, which identifies products, prices, currency and date using country-specific rules — not chain-specific ones. So the practical limit is the country, not the store.

Countries Fango supports

Fango covers 34 countries in 2026, grouped here for readability:

Each country has its own price-formatting rules baked into the prompt, so a receipt with European comma decimals (1,99 €) is parsed differently from one with US dot decimals ($1.99). Currency is auto-detected from the receipt itself — EUR, GBP, USD, SEK, NOK, DKK, PLN, CHF, CZK, HUF, RON, TRY, CAD, AUD and a handful more.

Major chains, by country

A non-exhaustive list — any grocery chain in the listed countries works, this just covers the big ones people ask about most:

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This is descriptive, not prescriptive — even if your chain isn't on this list, if you're in one of the 34 supported countries, the scanner will read its receipts. Smaller chains, market stalls and independent grocers work too, provided the receipt is clearly printed.

Online grocery PDFs

PDFs from online grocery delivery scan particularly well because the text layer is already digital — no photography step. Confirmed working:

• UK: Tesco delivery, Ocado, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Asda delivery
• Finland / Nordics: K-Ruoka.fi, Foodie.fi, Prisma verkkokauppa, S-kaupat, Wolt, Foodora
• Germany / EU: Rewe online, Edeka24, Picnic, Flink, Knuspr
• Spain / France / Italy: Mercadona online, Carrefour Online, Auchan Drive, Esselunga online
• USA: Instacart, Walmart Grocery, Amazon Fresh, Target delivery

Fango handles up to 5 pages per PDF. Longer receipts (Costco, big-shop deliveries) show a banner saying the rest needs adding manually.

What doesn't scan well

Being honest about the limits:

• Non-Latin scripts. Russian (Cyrillic), Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai receipts aren't supported in 2026. AI can read them, but Fango's prompt and product database aren't built for these.
• Hand-written market receipts. AI struggles with handwriting; OCR was built for print.
• Heavily faded thermal receipts. If you can barely read it yourself, the scanner can't either. Photograph thermal receipts the day you get them.
• Receipts photographed at sharp angles or with heavy glare. See the receipt scanning speed article for tips on better photos.
• Restaurant, café and hotel bills. Fango recognises these and refuses to add them — they're not grocery shops.

If your store isn't working

Two practical steps:

1. Check the country setting. Settings → Country. If you're in a supported country but the wrong one is selected (e.g. on holiday in Spain with Finland still selected), the scanner will use the wrong rules. Fango usually suggests a country change automatically when it detects a mismatch.
2. Report it. The in-app "Report a problem" link sends a structured report (country, store, receipt type, what went wrong) so we can target the fix to your specific chain.

Summary

An AI receipt scanner like Fango doesn't have a "supported stores" list in the old sense — it has supported countries (34 in 2026), and within those countries every chain whose receipts are clearly printed works. The exceptions are non-Latin scripts and unusable image quality, not specific stores.

Related reading: grocery receipt scanner app overview, how AI reads receipts, how long receipt scanning takes, food waste tracker comparison.

Frequently Asked Questions

What stores does Fango's receipt scanner support?

Fango supports receipts from 34 countries and effectively any grocery chain in those countries — Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl, M&S in the UK; Walmart, Target, Kroger, Costco, Trader Joe's in the US; Edeka, Rewe, Aldi, Lidl, Kaufland in Germany; Carrefour, Auchan, Leclerc in France; S-Market, K-Market, Lidl, Prisma in Finland; ICA, Coop, Willys in Sweden; and the equivalents in the remaining 28 countries. Because the scanner uses AI rather than store-specific templates, it works on any clearly printed receipt in the supported countries.

Does the receipt scanner work on online grocery PDFs?

Yes. PDF receipts from online grocery delivery — Tesco delivery, Ocado, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl Plus, Wolt, Foodora, K-Ruoka.fi, Foodie.fi, Prisma online, Mercadona, Carrefour Online — all scan in Fango. PDFs are often faster than paper receipts because the text layer is already digital. Fango handles up to 5 pages per PDF; longer receipts show a warning that page 6+ wasn't scanned.

What countries does the AI receipt scanner support?

Fango covers 34 countries: all 27 EU member states (Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Denmark, Czechia, Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Luxembourg, Cyprus and Malta), plus UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, USA, Canada, Australia and Turkey. Each country has its own rules for price format, VAT layout and discount handling, so a Polish receipt is parsed differently from a US one.

What if my supermarket isn't on the list?

If your country is supported, your supermarket almost certainly is too — Fango uses AI rather than store templates. The exceptions are receipts in non-Latin scripts (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Asian scripts), hand-written market stall receipts, and very faded thermal receipts. If a specific chain doesn't scan well, the in-app "Report a problem" link sends a structured report (country, store, receipt type, error) so we can target the fix.

Do Costco-style long receipts work?

Yes, with one caveat. Costco, Sam's Club and other warehouse-club receipts scan correctly for the products on the first 5 pages of the PDF or photo. If the receipt is longer than 5 pages, Fango shows a banner on the review screen saying the rest of the items need to be added manually. This cap exists to keep AI processing fast and reliable; a long paper Costco receipt is best photographed in halves and scanned twice.