Tuppnet

A small private app for getting paperwork off a work site and into the books, without anybody keying in numbers by hand.

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What it does

Tuppnet runs on a phone. It is used by a very small number of people — the owner of the account and, at most, a handful of crew members — to file business and household expense receipts.

Receipt Capture

This is the app's first and, at the time of writing, only working feature. It works like this:

1. The user photographs a paper receipt with their phone camera.
2. They choose an expense account from a short list — for example Vehicle – Fuel.
3. They tap Send to Hubdoc.

The app then emails that photo, as a normal file attachment, to one fixed bookkeeping inbox at Hubdoc. Hubdoc reads the vendor, amount, date and GST off the picture automatically, so nobody standing at a fuel pump has to type them in.

The user may optionally add a job or purchase-order number, the date on the receipt, their own name, and a short note for the bookkeeper. Everything except the photo and the expense account is optional.

Planned features

The app's home screen has placeholders for three further modules that are not built yet: daily field forms, safety checks, and inventory counts. They appear greyed out and cannot be opened.

How email is sent

Tuppnet sends that one email through the Gmail API, on behalf of the Google account that set the app up. It asks Google for exactly one permission, gmail.send, which allows sending a message and nothing else. The app cannot read, search, download, or delete anything in the mailbox, and it never asks to.

The destination address is fixed in the app's server configuration. It cannot be changed from a phone, and the app will not send to any address supplied by whoever is using it.

Privacy

Tuppnet stores nothing on a server. There is no database and no account to sign up for. The sent email is the only record it creates. Full detail is in the privacy policy.

Who runs it

Tuppnet is a personal project maintained by Brandon Tupper in Vermilion, Alberta, Canada. It is not sold, distributed, or offered to the public.

Questions, or a request to delete something: tupper.brandon@gmail.com