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Manual data entry

Type it once. The invoice and the books follow

Manual data entry stops when a job is typed in one place and everything else is made from it. Today it goes in three times: the job tracker, the invoice, the books. Same address, same amount, three chances to get it wrong.

  • 01Each job is typed once, when it arrives.
  • 02The invoice is made from that record.
  • 03Your books get a copy. Nobody retypes it.
What it is costing you

The hour nobody bills for

Twenty minutes of retyping doesn't feel like money. A month of it does. Someone stays late to catch up. You hire for the office instead of the van. And you start to hold the belief that you need more people, when what you need is one fewer keyboard.

The time is the smaller half. Type a price twice and one day the digits come out in the wrong order. You find out when the customer queries the invoice. Now the call is about your paperwork, not your work.

And nobody can tell which copy is the real one. Three places, three numbers, no rule for which wins. So month-end starts with somebody checking the same job three times.

The fix

Income Mavericks holds the one copy

Not a tidier spreadsheet. One record holds the job. The quote, the invoice and the copy in your books are all made from it, so there is nothing to keep in step.

Income Mavericks — what changes
Signed offTYPED ONCE
Harbor Rd, unit 4$1,840 · PO-4417
Mill Lane warehouse$620 · PO-4418
Invoiced+1 · NOT RETYPED
Pier 9 workshop$2,310 · sent Fri
Fig. 02 — What changes
Illustrative. Names are examples.
01

It is typed once, where it arrives

A form, a call, a message or a job booked at the counter becomes one record the first time anyone touches it. That is the only time anyone types it.

02

The invoice is made from that record

We set it up so signing off the job raises the invoice. The address, the amount and the reference come straight off the record. There is no second copy to get wrong.

03

Fix it once, and there's nothing else to fix

Correct a price on the record and the invoice made from it is right too. Nobody goes hunting for the other copies.

Where the record goes

Keep the tools you already pay for. Connect them once, and the job reaches them without anyone typing it again.

Everything it connects to →
In practice

One job, entered once

A job booked on Tuesday morning and invoiced on Friday. Nobody retypes it in between. The steps are the shape of a real run; the address and amount are examples.

Job booked → invoice sent
3 days
✓
Job booked
Harbor Rd, unit 4 · typed once
Tue 8:14 am
✓
Quote out the same morning
$1,840 — the amount on the record
Tue am
✓
Work signed off Friday
One tap on the job, no second form
Fri
✓
Invoice raised
Same address, same amount, same PO-4417
Fri
✓
A copy reaches the books
Nobody retyped anything
Fri
Two ways to get it

Have it wired up, or run it yourself

We build it

We find what you type twice, then stop it

We sit with you and the people doing the typing. We find every place the same thing gets keyed in twice, and put one record under it. You know how the work runs; the build is ours. We quote before we start.

You run it

The platform it runs on, from $49 a month

Income Mavericks is where the record lives: the customer, the job, the price and everything made from them. Rather set it up yourself? It is the same system, without us in it.

Side by side

The same job, without and with Income Mavericks

One job
Without
With Income Mavericks
Typed
Three times: Tue, Wed and Fri
Once, Tue 8:14 am
Address
Harbor Rd, unit 4 · Harbor Road 4 · Harbor Rd U4
Harbor Rd, unit 4, in all three
Amount
$1,480 on the invoice, should be $1,840
$1,840, off the record
Reference
PO-4471 in the books, should be PO-4417
PO-4417 in all three
Copies to check
3, and 2 are wrong
1, typed once

Illustrative. Names and values are examples.

Questions

Questions about manual data entry

How do I stop entering the same data twice?

Type each job in one place, and make everything else read from it. In practice the job, the quote and the invoice live in one system, and your books are connected to it. Then the typing happens once, when the job comes in, and never again.

If it types for us, what happens when it types the wrong thing?

It doesn't type anything, so it can't mistype. There is one record, and the invoice and the books are made from it. A wrong price is wrong in one place, and you fix it once. Today it is wrong in two places and right in the third.

We have years of history in the spreadsheet. Does that come across?

Bring it to the demo and we'll tell you. A clean customer list imports straight in, and we do the import for you. A sheet three people have edited for years needs a decision about what to keep. We make that decision with you before we quote, so it is not a surprise on the invoice.

We already use a CRM. Does this replace it?

Usually, yes. We build on Income Mavericks and only on Income Mavericks, because it is the one platform we know well enough to stand behind. Most businesses we work with don't have a system yet, but if you do, we import your customer list for you. Automations you already run there get rebuilt, and that is quoted separately from setup. If your sales team lives in HubSpot, the two can run side by side instead.

Can it talk to our accounting software?

Yes, if you use QuickBooks, Xero or Wave. The invoice you raise reaches your books without anyone typing it again, and your books stay where they are. Use something else? Bring the name to the demo, and we'll check it before we quote.

Other things that leak

Once the typing stops, the next leak is usually one of these.

Show us what you type twice.

Bring the two windows you copy between to the demo, and we'll show you what it takes to close one.

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