Your material purchase lines

What this shows

Your material purchase lines are the one place in Materials that shows invoice activity exactly as it landed, one line per material line item, rather than a benchmark, a category rollup, or a standardized material name. Everywhere else in Materials (Take Action opportunities, Price vs Peers, Spend Mix, Biggest Gaps) Verinode has already matched your line item to a standard material in the restoration materials catalog before showing it to you. The purchase lines skip that step: they are the closest thing on the page to opening the invoice yourself.

Verinode does not create these entries and there is nothing to add here manually. Each line is a line item Verinode read off a real supplier invoice or bill.

On the web this is a table on its own tab. On the phone it is still a Most Recent row of tiles at the bottom of the Materials page. Both are described below.

On the web: the All Purchases tab

Open Materials from the sidebar (/materials). The page has three tabs under the header: Cockpit (the hero panel and Take Action), Analytics (Apps and the Explore aspects), and All Purchases. The purchase lines live on All Purchases; there is no purchases row on the Cockpit tab any more.

The table holds your 20 most recent material purchase lines, newest invoice first, with these columns:

• Item. The description as the invoice wrote it, title-cased for readability (so an all-caps line from a supplier's PDF still reads cleanly).
• Branch. Shown only when your purchases span more than one branch. A line whose invoice is not tied to a job at a branch shows a dash.
• Unit and Quantity, as read off the line, or a dash when the invoice gave none.
• Unit price and Total, in exact dollars and cents, because these are figures you will be matching against a printed invoice. A dash means Verinode could not read that figure for the line.
• Bought. How long ago the invoice was dated, for example "3d ago", or a dash when the invoice carries no date.

A picker above the table switches between views of the same lines:

• Recent purchases. Newest first, by the date on the invoice. An invoice with no date on it is placed by the day Verinode received it, so one you forwarded today still appears near the top.
• Biggest lines. Largest line total first.
• By branch. Lines and spend per branch, biggest first, with lines tied to no branch grouped last. Only offered when your purchases span more than one branch.
• Repeat buys. Items you bought more than once at a known unit price, with the times bought, the lowest and highest unit price, and the total spent. A highest price at least half again above the lowest is highlighted, because a price that has moved that much is worth a look.
• Not placed. Invoice lines Verinode could not confidently match to a material in the catalog, grouped by how the invoice described them, with how many lines, what was spent, and when the item was last bought. Each row has a picker to name the material it is; one pick places every line in that group as that material, and the group leaves the view. Only offered when you have such lines.

Click a line whose invoice names a job and the job opens. A line whose invoice names no job is not clickable. The Find box narrows the table to matching rows.

When no material purchase has arrived yet, the table is replaced by what would fill it: the documents Materials reads and what each one turns on.

On the phone: the Most Recent row

On the mobile Materials page, Most Recent is the last row, below Take Action, Apps, and Explore. It shows up to 16 tiles, one per material line item, in the same order as Recent purchases on the web: newest first by the invoice date, with an undated invoice placed by the day Verinode received it:

• Label. The description from the invoice, title-cased, or simply "Material" when the line had no description.
• Headline. The line total, rounded for a small screen (for example "$5k" for a line in the thousands). A dash means no total was read for that line.
• Sub-text. The quantity and the unit in plain words, for example "12 Sheet" or "4 Gallon", or "purchase" when no unit was captured.

When there are no material purchases yet, the row is replaced by a single line: "Material purchases appear here as supplier invoices flow in by email, upload, or your accounting connection."

Lines that age out of the table or the row are not deleted. They still feed every benchmark, spend total, and supplier breakdown elsewhere in Materials.

How it fills in

There is no manual entry form for purchase lines, on purpose. A line appears here once a document line item has been read off an invoice or bill and tagged as a material line. That happens through any of the ways material data flows into Verinode:

1. 1Forward a supplier invoice to your Verinode inbound email address. Verinode reads every line item on it.
2. 2Upload a bill, invoice, or A/P aging report through the Add Data button in the Materials page header, or through a Take Action tile that asks for one. The same capture modal also takes a photo, a paste, or a voice note.
3. 3Connect your accounting system (or let an existing accounting connection sync) so bills and payables arrive automatically.

Once a line lands, it can take a short moment to be parsed and tagged before it shows up.

How to use it

1. 1Open All Purchases as a quick sanity check that your invoice flow is actually reaching Verinode: if you sent a material invoice today, its lines should show up under Recent purchases once parsing finishes.
2. 2Use the description, quantity, and amounts on each line to spot-check that Verinode read it correctly, especially right after you start forwarding a new supplier or a batch of older invoices.
3. 3Open Repeat buys to see where the same item has been bought at different prices, and Not placed to name the lines Verinode could not place, so they count as the material they are.
4. 4If a line's amount, quantity, or unit looks off, check the source invoice; the line still counts toward your Spend Mix and Price vs Peers totals, so an error here is worth catching early.

Related reading

• The Materials section for how the All Purchases tab fits alongside Cockpit and Analytics.
• The Explore row and the material aspects for where canonicalized material names, peer bands, and supplier comparisons live.
• Forwarding documents for how email forwarding gets an invoice into Verinode.
• Connecting your data for the full picture of upload, forwarding, and accounting ingest.
• Understanding your margin for how material cost rolls into what you keep on a job.
• How benchmarks work for how a raw invoice line becomes a canonical material used in peer pricing.

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