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Supplier bills for landscapers: snap the invoice, done

Photograph merchant invoices for turf, plants and aggregates and AI turns them into draft bills on the right job. From about $59£44€52A$84C$83 per user a month.

At a glance

  • What it costs$59–117£44–88€52–105A$84–169C$83–165 a month

  • Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$100£75€89A$144C$141 a month

  • Pays for itselfWithin the month

  • Sign up and configure; no technical skills neededEasy to set up

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked . How we check prices

The problem

Invoices from the turf farm, the nursery, the builders' merchant and the skip firm pile up in the van and get typed in on a Sunday, if at all. Without them on the job, you can't see what a job really cost. Fifty supplier invoices a month at 4 minutes each to type is over 3 hours a month.

What the AI does

Tradify's SmartRead, part of the SmartTools on the Plus plan, creates a draft bill from a PDF or photo of a supplier invoice. You take a photo on your phone or upload the PDF, check the draft against the invoice and approve it against the job. Tradify's help pages warn the read-in details can differ from the document, so the check matters.

A worked example

A landscaping firm in Harrogate with two partners on Tradify handles about 50 supplier invoices a month. They upgrade both users from Pro to Plus and photograph every invoice when it arrives.

Before

50 invoices typed in at about 4 minutes each, 200 minutes a month

After

50 photographed and checked at about 1 minute each, 50 minutes a month

What it's worth

About $100£75€89A$144C$141 a month in time saved, from 2.5 hours a month less typing at an assumed $40£30€36A$58C$56 an hour. For a firm already on Pro, the upgrade to Plus is $9£7€8A$13C$13 per user, $19£14€17A$27C$26 a month for two, so it pays back easily; bought for this alone, two Plus users at $117£88€105A$169C$165 a month would cost more than it saves.

How to set it up

  1. Move to Tradify Plus ($59£44€52A$84C$83 per user a month), the only standard plan with SmartTools.
  2. Photograph each supplier invoice when it arrives, or upload the PDF from your email.
  3. Check every line of the draft bill against the invoice, especially totals and VAT, before approving.
  4. Put each bill against the job it belongs to, so job costs are up to date.
  5. Check whether your main merchants are among the suppliers Tradify can import bills from directly.

What goes wrong

  • SmartRead is on Plus only. Pro and Lite users would need to upgrade, and it's priced per user.
  • The read-in details can be wrong. Approving drafts without checking puts wrong costs on jobs.
  • Receipts that are crumpled or faded read badly. Photograph them flat and in good light, the same day.

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Last updated October 17, 2026.