Reading your paperwork
Your paperwork arrives as paper. Blitz reads it the day it lands.
A purchase order reaches you as a photo on WhatsApp or a PDF in an email. An invoice reaches your accounts as a printout. Somebody retypes both, a week later, if they get to it. Blitz reads them, fills the form, and waits for you to press save.
A phone photo is enough. It does not need to be a clean scan.
You check it. Nothing is saved until you press save.
Why it matters
Your June costing was wrong because the bill arrived in July.
Every cost per unit rests on a rate, and every rate comes off a piece of paper. If that paper sits in a folder for three weeks before anyone types it, then for three weeks your costing quietly runs on last month's rate — and every quote you give in that window is built on it.
Call it stale-rate costing. It is the most common reason an owner's cost per unit is confidently wrong, and it is not a maths problem. It is a data-entry backlog. Reading the bill the day it arrives is what closes it.
Why a misread costs you nothing
Nothing is saved until you have looked at it.
Every extraction comes back as a filled-in form, not a finished record. The number, the date, the rate, every line — sitting in fields you can edit, beside the document they came off. You press save. Until you do, nothing has touched your costing, your stock or your reports.
That checkpoint is why accuracy is not really the thing to argue about. Catching a misread on screen costs you ten seconds. Typing a rate wrong at eight in the evening and not catching it costs you every quote you give until somebody notices.
The work this removes is the typing. The checking was always going to stay with a person.
You see it before it counts
The form is a draft until you approve it. Nothing reaches your accounts, your stock or your cost per unit on the strength of a reading alone.
The paper stays attached
The photograph is kept against the record. When a figure looks wrong six weeks later, you open the document it came from and settle it in seconds.
A correction is just a correction
Fix the field and save. There is no re-import, no reversal entry and nothing to unpick downstream, because nothing had moved yet.
Nobody in our own mill was told to stop typing. Photographing a bill and checking a filled-in form simply beat keying it in line by line, and the slow way stopped being worth the effort. That is the only adoption plan this needs.
What comes back filled in
Two documents, both read the same way.
A customer's purchase order
PO number and date, the buyer, the full delivery address including GSTIN, amendment number and remark, the payment, delivery, freight, transport and despatch terms, special instructions, and a row per line item carrying HSN, quantity, unit, rate and GST%.
A Tally GST invoice
Invoice number and date, customer and GSTIN, separate Bill-To and Ship-To blocks, every line with HSN, quantity, rate and the CGST/SGST/IGST split, plus taxable value, round-off, grand total, amount in words and payment terms.
The uploaded file and the raw extraction are both kept against the record, so any figure on a report can be traced back to the document it came off. That trail is what makes the number arguable in the way an accountant needs.
Where this goes next
The chain of custody behind your cost per unit.
Reading paper is not the point. Reading it in time is. This is the link between the document at your gate and the number you quote from.
The bill arrives
A supplier bill at the gate, a customer PO on WhatsApp. Photographed, read, checked, saved — today, not in three weeks.
The rate lands live
That bill sets what your raw material actually cost this week. It goes straight into the same stock pool your machines draw from.
Cost per unit is current
Measured output from the machine, priced at this week's real rate, plus energy, labour and overhead. Not last month's guess.
This is the half of true cost per unit that nobody demos — the machine side is measured by sensors, and this is how the money side stays as current as the machine side. See all four kinds of AI in Blitz, or the full feature set.
Reading your paperwork, answered.
Do I still have to check every extraction?
The form is built for it — nothing is written to your records until you press save. That matters more in a factory than in an accounting package. In accounts, a wrong figure is a wrong ledger line somebody eventually spots. In a factory, a wrong rate silently becomes a wrong cost per unit and a wrong quote on every job after it.
How accurate is it?
Accurate enough that checking beats typing, which is the bar that matters — because a person checks every document before it saves. Printed GST invoices and purchase orders read cleanly; a creased phone photo of a faint dot-matrix print is harder. You always see what was extracted before anything is committed, so a misread costs you a correction on screen rather than a wrong figure in your accounts.
What can I upload?
JPG, PNG or PDF. A phone photo of a purchase order works — it does not need to be a clean scan.
How quickly does it pay off?
Immediately, because the rate on today’s bill is the rate your costing uses today. The gap between paper arriving and the figure reaching your system is where cost per unit goes wrong, and that gap closes on the first document you put through.
Bring one of your invoices.
Book a 20-minute demo, hand us a real purchase order or a real Tally invoice, and watch it come back as a filled-in form. Yours, not ours.