BLT is where the receipt gets photographed, the hour gets clocked, and the dollar gets coded to a phase. Then it hands that record — already coded, already reconciled, already approved — to the payroll processor and the accounting package you have run for eleven years. Nobody is asking your bookkeeper to switch software.
Bank import and exports on Builder · QuickBooks and Xero on StudioEverything BLT connects to falls into one of four lanes. Each one names exactly what crosses the line, in which direction.
Hours come off GPS clock-ins, not a clipboard someone reconstructs on Sunday night. They arrive at the processor already split by employee, job and phase, so job costing survives the trip to payroll instead of collapsing into one line called Labor.
Export the week with the job and the phase intact. Your accountant gets vendor, date, amount, job, phase and category on every row — the same coding the PM chose at the counter, not a guess made three weeks later from a bank line that says HOME DEPOT #4821.
Pull the statement in and BLT matches transactions against expenses that were already photographed, coded and approved in the field. What matches clears. What doesn’t gets a queue, so a $412 charge nobody remembers becomes a question on Friday instead of a mystery in November.
Start by importing the spreadsheet you are already running. The column mapper reads your headers, you confirm which one is the phase and which is the amount, and the ledger is live. Leaving is the same trip in reverse, and it is never a support ticket.
A $550.17 lumber run on Tuesday afternoon, from the moment the card is swiped to the moment it sits in your accounting package coded to Framing.
The PM shoots the receipt at the counter. Ten seconds, gloves on, no signal required.
Receipt OCR pulls five line items and posts them to Maple Ridge #1 · Framing · Materials.
The manager approves, reassigns or flags it in the weekly settle, then locks the period.
The statement lands, the $550.17 charge matches the approved expense, and the row clears itself.
It leaves for QuickBooks or Xero with vendor, date, job, phase and category already on it.
The reason job costing fails is almost never the accounting package. It is that the jobsite record and the financial record are assembled by different people from different paper, three weeks apart, and then argued about. BLT captures the jobsite record where it happens and hands it over already coded — so the two records were never separate to begin with.
Hours are already approved and split by phase. The office exports and moves on.
The weeks were locked as they closed. There is nothing left to reconstruct.
The photograph sits next to the extracted lines. “What was this for?” stops being a question.
Full CSV and a media archive, on demand, without asking anyone’s permission.
Map the columns, tag the phases, and send the first clean export at the end of the week.