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PR-5701 · Live

Chem Ledger

When the AR Specialist opens a Job to invoice, the chem usage submitted from the field is already priced and on the Job. The pricebook lookup and the markup math are not part of how she gets there. Billed per Job invoiced.

Built for
the person it works for
Processes
one unit of work
Priced
30 rivets
per job
Returns
10 min
back to the AR Specialist
10 min × $18/hr
$3
Returned Each Run

The promise

When a Job is ready to invoice, the chem line items are already on it. The pricebook lookup and the markup math are no longer hers to do.

How it works

The path from input to value.

  1. 01

    A Job becomes ready to invoice

    When a Job hits a ready-to-invoice state with chem-usage forms attached, the chems on it are picked up right then. By the time the AR Specialist opens the Job, the chem work is done.

  2. 02

    Chems priced against your pricebook

    Each chem captured on the Job is looked up in the pricing source the AR Specialist already maintains. Rounding, minimums, markup, and customer-specific rules apply the way she would apply them.

  3. 03

    Clean captures land; flagged ones queue

    If everything checks out, the priced line items write to the Job's billable section. Captures flagged for review (a new customer, a quantity that looks off, an unmapped chem) sit in a short queue she opens with one click.

  4. 04

    Every decision is on the Job

    When a customer questions a chem charge weeks later, the AR Specialist opens the Job and sees the chain. The tech's form, the chems read off it, the rule applied, the line that landed. One place, no archeology.

The day before. The day after.

Same moments. Lived differently.

  • 7:45 AM

    Before

    Fourteen closed Jobs to invoice. Eight have chem-usage forms she needs to price by hand: pricebook lookup, markup math, line-item typing.

    After

    Fourteen closed Jobs already priced. She clears two flagged captures in five minutes, then opens the day's aging report with twenty minutes to actually read it.

  • 8:15 AM

    Before

    Six clean invoices go out. Eight chem-heavy Jobs are still mid-pricing; she flags them to finish after the morning cadence calls.

    After

    All fourteen invoices out on time. She's already started on the morning cadence list, ten minutes ahead of her usual start.

  • 9:00 AM

    Before

    Cadence calls start with three unbilled Jobs nagging at her. The thirty-day conversations feel rushed; her head's on the chem work waiting after lunch.

    After

    Cadence calls have her full attention. Three customers pay over the phone with a card; one promises Friday and she logs the promise verbatim.

  • 1:15 PM

    Before

    Sixty-day calls compressed into forty minutes. The unbilled Jobs from morning still on her list, blocking the harder accounts.

    After

    Sixty-day calls get the full hour the Controller has been asking for. Two payment plans land; one escalates cleanly to the Service Manager.

  • 4:45 PM

    Before

    DSO down a day. She knows it could be down further if chem-heavy invoices weren't slipping a day on principle.

    After

    DSO down three days, same-day billing holding on every Job. The Friday packet quotes the cleaner trend, and the Controller notices.

What it doesn’t do

The edges we drew on purpose.

A product that tries to do everything ends up doing nothing well. Here’s what we left out, and why we don’t feel bad about it.

  • ×Does not aggregate commercial chem usage into a month-end invoice. A sibling Product handles period-end roll-ups.
  • ×Does not generate the invoice itself. The FSM generates the invoice at Job close from the priced line items already on the Job.
  • ×Does not author or maintain the chem pricebook. The AR Specialist still owns what each chem costs.
  • ×Does not score, rank, or coach technicians on chem-usage data.