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We work with a lot of construction and field service companies and keep running into the same problem nobody seems to have a clean solution for.

Materials go out to a job site. Job finishes. Some materials come back unused. And then what?

From what we have seen it usually goes one of a few ways; the crew drops it in a bin, someone manually counts it later, maybe it gets entered into a spreadsheet, or it just disappears into the warehouse and shows up as ghost inventory six months later. Meanwhile the accounting team has no idea what the actual net material cost of that job was after accounting for what came back.

Curious how other construction and field service businesses handle this. A few specific questions:

•	Do you have a system for logging what comes back and from which job?

•	Does your accounting software ever reflect the true net material cost of a job after returns?

•	Is this actually a big enough pain that you would pay for a simple mobile solution to fix it?

Not pitching anything here, genuinely trying to understand if this is a universal problem or just the companies we happen to talk to. Would love to hear how you handle it in the comments.

Hey guys not sure if this is the right place to do this but I’ve heard from other threads that Reddit can be helpful to find potential customers.

I built a product for retail stores and warehouses and need help finding pilot customers. We have two active users, one is a bike shop, and one is a warehouse that does garage door installment.

These customers have the problem of spending too much time on getting new items from shipments into their inventory. There’s also potential for errors which makes the work messy. We automate the process by reading invoices from vendors and automatically generating all of the data. Then after review, they import directly into their system. This saves a lot of time and reduces errors. It’s also highly accurate. We also integrated with QBO so customers can import all accounting info if wanted by the same invoices.

My first users really like it and said that it’s really helped their inventory entry. These are people I already knew so I need help finding 8 more.

Not here to promote, just hoping to learn from you guys. Built a tool that automatically reads vendor invoices and generates all inventory data in seconds. Saves time, reduces errors, and is highly accurate. Syncs with your existing inventory system and with QBO too.
I have a buddy who runs a warehouse who has been using it and he said he loves it. Does this sound like something that would actually be helpful and that other people would use?

Just built a tool that automatically scans vendor invoices and generates all inventory data in seconds. Very accurate. It saves time and reduces errors. Mainly for small retail stores and warehouses. Thoughts?