Control Material Costs: A 30-Day Plan for Contractors
A dated 30-day plan to control material costs: pull your price history, set PO and matching rules, and walk into the supplier conversation with receipts.
By Emily10 min read
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Tech, Accounting and Integration
Every tech, accounting and integration guide from the CheckMySupply audit desk: 7 articles on what actually shows up on supply-house invoices and what to do about it.
Who Manages Material Costs in a Contractor Business?
Who manages material costs in a contractor business, how to split buying, matching and price history across a 20-person shop, and when to hire for it.
By Emily9 min read
Export Purchase History From Your Supplier Portal
How to export purchase history from a supplier portal as a contractor, which fields you actually need, and what to do when the portal only hands you PDFs.
By Emily10 min read
Why Your Field Service Pricebook Drifts From Real Cost
ServiceTitan and every field service app freezes material cost the day you build the book. How pricebook material cost drift quietly eats your job margin.
By Emily10 min read
QuickBooks Material Items Setup for Contractors
Most shops book material as one lump sum, which erases unit price history at the source. A QuickBooks contractor material items setup that keeps every price.
By Emily10 min read
Contractor Material Cost Software Stack, Layer by Layer
A contractor material cost software stack runs five layers, counter ticket to general ledger. Here is what owns each one, and the middle layer nobody buys.
By Emily10 min read
Scanning Paper Supply-House Invoices From the Truck
Your invoices are paper and they live in the truck. What actually works for capturing them, what OCR gets wrong, and how to stop losing price history.
By Emily11 min read