finstat/industries/appliance & repair shops
For Appliance & Repair Shops

Sales tax collected on each repair, kept out of income.

Give your AI your checking and Visa statements, parts receipts, and flat-rate service invoices. Parts receipts are tied to the job and the card, and the sales tax you collect stays out of income.

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The documents in this sample case.

Give these documents to your AI and say “run my books.”
Republic Parts merchant copy — compressor + relay, $284.20
Flat-rate invoice — dishwasher + dryer, $706.75
Business checking — April
Business Visa — April, paid in full
Ace Hardware — shop supplies, $128.40
Shell — service van fuel, $64.20
Invoice — refrigerator compressor, $495.29
Invoice — washer drum bearing, $274.67

The parts that eat your evening.

  • WA retail sales tax applies to the whole repair charge — parts and labor alike, under WAC 458-20-173 — at Spokane's combined state-plus-local rate, and what you collect is a liability to remit, not income
  • Merchant parts receipts, retail hardware slips, and fuel receipts all need to be matched back to the right job and the Visa card
  • Flat-rate service invoices are AR that may not hit the bank the same month they're billed
What FinStat caught in this case

On the April Visa it reconciles a $1,284.20 balance that's paid in full, then charged back up to the same $1,284.20, and it ties the $284.20 Republic Parts compressor receipt — parts for unit 14820 — straight to the Martinez refrigerator job, so job cost and the sales tax collected on it stay separate.

Reconciled to the bank. Then ask your AI anything about your books.

Checking close · Apr
$15,842.00
Checking close · May
$15,488.00
Chen 2-unit invoice
$706.75
Republic Parts receipt
$284.20

Figures from the Coppervane Appliance Repair LLC sample case — a fictional business — each transaction tied to its source document, balanced and review-ready.

Once connected, two steps.

  1. Give your AI the documents.

    Give your AI your statements, payouts, receipts, and bills — attach them, then say: run my books. Your statements are processed only for the work you ask for and never sold; they go to the AI sub-processors on our subprocessor list to be read.

  2. Ask for any report.

    “Give me a P&L.” “Reconcile May.” “Show the uncategorized transactions.” Review-ready accounting output, in chat. Each entry traces to its source line, so you can question any number in the chat.

Your books

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