A worked example · real screens, real numbers

One paper ticket, all the way to the invoice

A driver hands in a ticket for four loads of gravel. Below is exactly what happens to it inside Tragget — the screens, the arithmetic, and the ten seconds of clock between the ticket being saved and the invoice existing.

So you know where you stand: nothing on this page asks you to sign up, and nothing here reaches a customer. It is a worked example plus a calculator you can put your own figures into. Doing it with your real tickets needs an account — step 4 says exactly what that involves, and it is the last thing on the page, not a surprise.

Steps 1 & 2

The real run

Our screens, our numbers, timestamped from the database.

Step 3

Your numbers

Same arithmetic, your rate and your province, in your browser.

Step 4

What it takes

What is actually involved in running your own week through it.

The ticket comes in off the job

This is the paper slip: one truck, four round trips of gravel from the Highway 1 job in Abbotsford down to the Cloverdale pit, at the rate that was agreed for the project. Somebody keys it in once. On a running project the driver logs it from the cab and nobody keys it in at all.

What came in off the job

Date: 14 Aug 2026
Driver: Dave Kowalchuk
Hauled: Gravel
From: Hwy 1 Abbotsford
Dumped at: Cloverdale pit
Loads: 4 rounds
Rate: $145.00 per round

Tragget invoice screen showing ticket BC0000048, 4 rounds, $580.00, on the Tickets tab — Saved, it becomes ticket **BC0000048** and lands straight on the customer’s invoice as a charge: 4 rounds × $145.00 = **$580.00**. No spreadsheet in between.

You approve it — and that writes the invoice

14:55:55 ticket saved → ten seconds → invoice exists 14:56:05

There is no separate “now do the invoicing” job at the end of the week. Approving the ticket is what writes the charge, prices it, and puts the right sales tax on it for the province the job is in. Those two times are read straight off the two database rows, not off a stopwatch.

Tragget invoice INV-2608-001 to Mainland Aggregates: subtotal $580.00, GST 5% $29.00, total due $609.00, marked Pending — Invoice **INV-2608-001** — $580.00 subtotal, GST at 5% because the job is in British Columbia, **$609.00** due. Nobody worked any of that out by hand. It is sitting at *Pending*, waiting for a person to approve it.

Two things that invoice is not

It is not sent. It says Pending, and the two buttons are Return to Draft and Approve. That is deliberate: Tragget writes the invoice, a person releases it. Nothing goes to your customer on its own.

It is not finished. Nobody invoices for a single ticket. Once the project is running, every ticket your drivers log rolls onto the same invoice for that customer and that billing period, and it goes out when the period closes. One ticket shows you the machinery, not the billing habit.

Now put your own numbers in

The fields below start on the ticket you just read, so you can see the shape of it. Change them to yours — your company, your driver, your material, your rate, your province — and press Approve. The arithmetic is the same arithmetic the software runs at step 2: quantity × rate, then your province’s sales tax.

This one runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is saved, nothing is sent, and we never see what you type. It is a calculator, not an account.

Your paper ticket details

Your company

Customer

Driver

Hauled

From

Dumped at

Billed

Rounds

Rate /round

Job is in

In the software, this button is the one at step 2 — the driver’s ticket coming in off the job and you approving it.

Your invoice

Press Approve ticket and the invoice gets written here.

What it takes to do that with your own week

Everything above is a worked example and a calculator. To put your actual tickets through it — the ones on the seat of the truck right now — you need an account of your own, because the invoice has to carry your business number, your customers and your rates. That is the whole catch, and here is what it actually involves:

Opening the account is free and takes a few minutes. Company name, your business number, and the rates you already charge.
Your first invoice can be the same day. Add a customer, key in a ticket off your desk, approve it. That is the run at steps 1 and 2.
Your drivers come later, not first. The office side works on its own; drivers logging their own tickets from the cab is what removes the keying-in, and you can add them once you have seen the rest working.
Nothing reaches a customer until you press send. Same as step 2 — invoices sit at Pending until a person releases them.

Open an account Have someone walk me through it

Or just phone and ask: 236-515-0808

About the example: Fraser Valley Hauling (demo) is a demonstration company we set up to record this. Every company and person named on these screens is invented — the customer, the driver, the project owner and the job — and none of them is a Tragget customer. We are not going to put someone else’s rates on a web page. What is real and unedited is the software: the screens, the tax calculation, the ticket and invoice numbers, and the two timestamps. The calculator at step 3 does its arithmetic in your browser using the same rules as the software; it is not connected to an account and it stores nothing.