Photograph a material receipt or upload a supplier invoice and FEM reads the merchant, totals, and line items into an editable cost - no typing. It tracks costs against the job, shows your true margin versus the accepted estimate, and can even turn recorded costs into a new estimate with your markup applied.
From the supply counter to your next quote, FEM reads your receipts into per-job costs - so you always know your real numbers.
Photograph a material receipt or upload a supplier invoice - multi-page paper invoices merge so totals reconcile. Prefer not to scan? You can always enter a cost by hand.
Merchant, totals, and line items come back as an editable cost filed by category against the job. Low-confidence fields are flagged, card digits are redacted before storage, and an unverified total is never saved.
Margin is your revenue minus recorded costs, shown read-only on the job and in your CRM. Or roll those costs into a new estimate by category with your markup applied - your own labor billed at your rate, never marked up.
Scan a receipt, see per-job margin, turn costs into an estimate, and export for your bookkeeper.
Snap a material receipt or upload a supplier invoice and the merchant, date, tax, total, and line items come back as an editable cost draft. Multi-page paper invoices merge so the totals reconcile - and nothing saves until you confirm it.
Margin is your paid invoice total - or the accepted estimate amount if it isn't paid yet - minus your recorded costs. It shows on the job and in your CRM lists, read-only, and never touches the revenue you billed. Your own time counts too: set a Default Labor Rate once, log your hours, and FEM costs your labor as hours x your rate - no employees or timesheets required.
Recorded costs seed a Create Docs draft by category with your Default Markup % applied. Materials and subs get marked up; your labor bills at your rate. Edit and send it like any other estimate.
Export your job costs for the bookkeeper. It complements QuickBooks or Wave rather than fighting them - the cost side of the job lines up with the revenue side you already sync.
Material and sub costs creep up every season. Because your estimates are built from what you actually paid, last week's receipt - not last year's guess - sets the price. Pull any recorded cost onto a new estimate and your Default Markup % is applied on the spot.
Every job cost you scan or enter becomes a reusable building block. The number on the line item traces back to a receipt, not a stale price list you forgot to update.
Reuse a past cost and your Default Markup % turns it into a client price right away. Your own labor bills at your rate and is never marked up.
Open Reuse Past Work, pick a recorded cost, and it drops onto the draft. You quote at what materials cost now, so rising prices come out of the customer's total, not your margin.
Photograph a receipt or upload a supplier invoice; FEM reads merchant, date, tax, total, and line items into an editable cost draft you confirm.
Yes - supplier invoices use the invoice reader, and multi-page paper invoices are merged so line items and totals reconcile.
Your paid invoice total (or the accepted estimate amount if not yet paid) minus your recorded costs for that job.
Yes - set a default hourly rate once and log hours; the labor cost is hours x your rate. No employees or timesheets required.
Yes - recorded costs can seed a new estimate by category with your Default Markup % applied (your labor isn't marked up).
It complements them - you can export job costs for your bookkeeping rather than replacing your accounting tool.
Low-confidence fields are flagged and everything is editable; FEM never saves an unconfirmed total, and you can always enter a cost manually.
Yes - card numbers are redacted before storage, and cost data is covered by the same export and account-deletion guarantees as the rest of your account.
Try the workflow that reads a receipt or supplier invoice into editable costs, shows your true margin per job, and turns those costs into your next estimate.
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