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.

blitz · invoice capture · review before save
What you uploaded
TAX INVOICE
2025-2026/01438
Dated: 12-Jun-2026
GSTIN 27AABCU9603R1ZX
25MM ELASTIC   45,000 MTR
HSN 5806   @ ₹5.90   18%
₹3,13,290.00

A phone photo is enough. JPG, PNG or PDF, up to 10 MB.

What Blitz filled in
Invoice no.2025-2026/01438
Date2026-06-12
GSTIN27AABCU9603R1ZX
HSN · qty · rate5806 · 45,000 · ₹5.90
CGST / SGST₹28,196 / ₹28,196
Total₹3,69,682.00

You check it. Nothing is saved until you press save.

Upload, review, save. The rate on that line becomes your cost per metre the same day.

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.

From a real factory, not a demo

354 invoices, read and saved.

These are the actual figures from our own floor between May and July 2026 — the factory Blitz was built in, and the one it still runs.

0/354

Number and date

Accepted without correction on every single invoice.

0/354

Invoice total

Matched the extraction. Four needed a correction before saving.

0/28

Purchase orders

Of the POs on file, created by reading the document rather than typing it.

The switchover is visible in the data

76 invoices were typed by hand in March. 88 in April. From June onward, nearly every invoice arrived through the scanner instead. Nobody was told to change how they worked — the slow way simply stopped being worth it.

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.

01 · PAPER

The bill arrives

A supplier bill at the gate, a customer PO on WhatsApp. Photographed, read, checked, saved — today, not in three weeks.

02 · RATE

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.

03 · COST

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?

Across 354 GST invoices scanned on our own floor between May and July 2026, the invoice number and date were accepted without correction on all 354, and the total matched on all but four.

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.

All questions answered

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.