Four calls, three supply stops,one clean set of books
Meet Marcus, whose sun visor used to be the accounting department. Here's a normal Tuesday — emergency call included — where every slip made it onto the right job.
The setup — an illustrative scenario, not a customer reviewMarcus runs solo: service calls, the occasional repipe, and a van whose visor once held a season of faded thermal paper. His rule now is muscle memory — scan the slip at the supply-house counter, tap the job, drive.
See Receni for plumbersOne day, recorded
Marcus's day, receipt by receipt
- 1
7:35 am
First stop, first scan
Copper elbows and a wax ring for the morning's calls. Scanned at the counter into the service-calls workspace before the van door closes.
$40.15Apex Plumbing Supply
Parts — service calls
- 2
11:50 am
The repipe's own books
Second stop, bigger list — all for the Hillcrest repipe. Different job, different workspace, one tap on the picker. The repipe's costs stay traceable to the repipe's quote.
$286.70Apex Plumbing Supply
Parts — Hillcrest repipe
- 3
3:20 pm
Emergency part, cash, corner store
A burst-pipe call needs a fitting the van doesn't have and the nearest hardware store takes cash. Manual entry from the customer's driveway — thirty seconds, recorded.
- 4
Fri 5:30 pm
The quote check
Week's end: the Hillcrest workspace against the Hillcrest quote. Parts ran 12% over what he priced — next repipe gets quoted from this one's numbers.
What changed
The shift, in Marcus's scenario
Quotes sharpened
Real per-job parts costs replaced flat-rate folklore — underpriced jobs show themselves the same week.
The visor retired
Every deductible part and fuel stop lives in the app with its image, not in fading thermal paper.
The accountant got itemized data
Year-end is a CSV of every part, tool, and fuel stop — categorized, dated, readable.
The features doing the work
- AI receipt scanning — Supply-house slips scan at the counter — merchant, date, total, category.
- Workspaces — Service calls, big jobs, and van stock keep separate books.
- Manual entry — Cash emergency parts get recorded from the driveway.
- CSV export — Friday exports compare job costs against quotes while it still matters.
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