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Interior Designer Guide

How to Automate Expense & Receipt Tracking as a Interior Designer

Tracking trade invoices and client markups gets messy when receipts are buried in email threads or stuffed in your bag after site visits. Missing one Kravet invoice or forgetting to apply the 30% markup on a $2,800 fabric order can cost you thousands in lost revenue each quarter.

The Current Reality

The Manual Way

Manually typing trade costs into spreadsheets, calculating retail markups by hand, and saving PDFs in scattered folders.

4 hours per week
  1. Download PDF invoices from vendor emails or snap photos of physical receipts.
  2. Open your master budget spreadsheet and find the specific project tab.
  3. Type in the trade cost and use a calculator to figure out the client markup price.
  4. Enter both numbers into separate columns and update the running total.
  5. Save the receipt image to a Google Drive folder named after the project.

With Christine AI

The Christine Way

Snap a photo or forward an email, and Christine logs costs, calculates markups, and updates your live budget sheet instantly.

You

Text a photo of the $2,800 Kravet Fabrics trade invoice to Christine.

Christine

OCR pulls the line items, logs the $2,800 trade cost, calculates the $3,640 billed amount (30% markup), and adds it to the Anderson project budget in Google Sheets.

You

Ask 'What is the remaining budget for the Anderson kitchen renovation?'

Christine

Christine adds up all logged expenses against the $45,000 cap and replies with the exact remaining balance plus a list of recent transactions.

Time Saved Per Week

3.5 hours per week

Back in your pocket every single week — just for this one task.

Real Example

See it in iMessage

Just text Christine like you would a friend.

9:41

Christine

AI Secretary

Here's the invoice from Mitchell Gold for the Anderson sofa. Trade price was $4,200.
9:41 AM
Got it. I've logged the $4,200 trade cost for the Anderson project. Based on your standard 30% markup, I've added a pending client invoice line item for $5,460. Your current total spend is now $22,600.
9:41 AM
Did we already pay the window treatment deposit?
9:42 AM
Yes, you sent $1,600 to Shades & Blinds Co on March 4th. It's marked as 'Paid' in the budget sheet. The remaining balance for that line item is $1,600.
9:42 AM
Great. Remind me to bill the client for the fabric markup next Friday.
9:43 AM
Reminder set: 'Bill Andersons for Kravet fabric markup ($840 profit)' for next Friday at 9 AM.
9:43 AM
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