VanReceipts turns receipts into job profit for tradespeople. Scan from the van, on-device OCR reads every line, the right job is matched automatically, and every job shows live net profit. Private by default, optional cloud AI for faded receipts. iOS.
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Hey Product Hunt. VanReceipts is a job costing app for tradespeople: electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs, one-van contractors.
The problem: every estimating and invoicing tool tells a tradesperson what a job SHOULD cost. Almost nothing tells them what it ACTUALLY cost, because the actual costs are a pile of receipts in the door pocket of the van and hours nobody wrote down. Margins are discovered at tax time, a year too late.
[1 or 2 personal sentences here: why you specifically ended up building this. Keep it honest and concrete.]
So VanReceipts starts from the receipt. You scan it from the front seat, on-device OCR reads the total and every line item (no upload, receipts are your business data), and it matches the cost to the right job using where and when you scanned. Log your hours at your rate and every job shows live net profit. For badly faded thermal receipts there is an optional cloud AI itemization step, off by default, opt-in per receipt.
A few honest limitations: iOS only for now, and it is deliberately NOT accounting software. It answers one question, "did this job make money", and pairs with whatever bookkeeping tool you already use.
Free to try on the App Store. I would genuinely love feedback on the scan flow, and if you know a tradesperson, I would love to hear what they think even more. Ask me anything.
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honestly love the on-device angle, that is huge for privacy. one thing though, it would be really helpful if you could split a single receipt across materials and labor automatically, or at least let me tag line items by category. right now I think it just totals everything as an expense, which kind of undercuts the per-job profit view when I want to see where the margin actually came from. would make the live profit number way more useful on bigger jobs
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Would love to see mileage tracking built in since I'm already logging receipts from the van anyway. Even just linking trips to jobs via GPS would save me a ton of hassle at tax time.
honestly love the on-device angle, that is huge for privacy. one thing though, it would be really helpful if you could split a single receipt across materials and labor automatically, or at least let me tag line items by category. right now I think it just totals everything as an expense, which kind of undercuts the per-job profit view when I want to see where the margin actually came from. would make the live profit number way more useful on bigger jobs
Would love to see mileage tracking built in since I'm already logging receipts from the van anyway. Even just linking trips to jobs via GPS would save me a ton of hassle at tax time.