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Used to hand him a paper invoice, now I'm uploading photos to an app for every cabinet job in Akron
Back around 2016 I did a kitchen remodel in Akron and the whole job ran on a legal pad and a flip phone. I'd write the measurements on site, drive home, type them up, print two copies, and mail the invoice out hoping the check showed up in ten days. Now I take a photo of the wall, punch the numbers into an app on my phone, and the client taps approve before I even load the truck. The weird part is I get paid faster but I feel less in control, because when it was paper I knew exactly where every job stood just by flipping pages. Last month I had six jobs going and spent about forty minutes a night scrolling through thumbnails trying to remember which cabinet run I'd already quoted. The old guys I learned from would call that a rich man's problem, and they're probably right. Anybody here still keeping a paper log alongside the digital stuff, or did you cut it loose completely?
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skylerrobinson6d ago
I still keep a clipboard in the truck with a sheet per job, just the address, the date, and what stage it's at. When I get home I write one line in a notebook, like "Ellet job, uppers quoted, waiting on countertop." Takes me two minutes and I never have to scroll back through pics to figure out where I left off. The app handles the money and the client, the paper handles my memory. Feels dumb sometimes but I've stopped quoting the same cabinet run twice.
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