Customer story
Residential construction

Abode Custom Homes cut invoice data entry by 80%

How one bookkeeper went from hours of manual Procore entry, with 50+ invoices at a time, scribbled job numbers and splits across projects, to an inbox she no longer dreads.

80%
less time spent on invoice data entry
50+
invoices per batch, processed without manual keying
Hours
returned to Louisa's week, every week

“I honestly didn't think there was a way around it, but the inBuild team worked with me over a few sessions and came up with a solution that felt like magic!”

The challenge

Invoices arrived faster than they could be typed

Abode's payables landed in batches of 50 or more, and every one had to be opened, read, and re-typed into Procore by hand. Many weren't clean: job numbers scribbled on by field staff, single invoices needing to be split across several projects before the costs landed in the right place. In Louisa's words, “it was tedious, time-consuming work that ate up a huge chunk of my day, torture!”

The solution

A few working sessions, then the entry stopped

Invoices now arrive in the inBuild payable inbox and are read automatically: vendor, amounts, and line items extracted without keying. Louisa reviews the result, splits a document across projects where it needs splitting, and syncs it straight to Procore. The inBuild team worked with her to get the messier cases handled the way Abode actually works.

01
Invoices land in the inbox
Vendors email them in. No download, no filing.
02
Data extracted, split by project
Line items read automatically, then allocated across jobs.
03
Costs sync to Procore
Approved direct costs land against the right WBS.
The results

80% less data entry, and no dread

Louisa's data-entry time is down roughly 80%. The batches still arrive, but they no longer set the shape of her day: “I no longer dread checking my inbox for new invoices as I know how swiftly they can be processed, I couldn't be happier!”

Company
Abode Custom Homes
Industry
Residential construction
Interviewed
Louisa Shell, Bookkeeper
Stack
Procore + inBuild

“Before inBuild, invoices would arrive in batches of 50+ and take me hours to manually enter into Procore.”

Louisa, Abode Custom Homes