Mabel reads the invoices and receipts that land in your inbox, files each one under the right year and supplier in your own Drive, and keeps one spreadsheet that actually adds up. On a schedule you choose, without you.
Prepares your bookkeeping. It never files anything with anyone, and anything it can’t read with confidence waits for you.
Setting up
Nothing to install, and nothing for your accountant to learn.
The mailbox your invoices already arrive in, and the label you already file them under. An app password — no Google review, no IT ticket.
One folder in a Shared Drive. Everything Mabel files goes inside it and nowhere else.
Every night, every Monday, every fifteen minutes. It reads what arrived, files it, and adds the row.
Why you can leave it running
The point is not that it is clever. The point is that it is right, and tells you when it is not sure.
Year, then supplier, inside the folder you chose. The summary columns are the ones you asked for — change them and the loop follows.
A dollar invoice from March converts at March’s ECB rate, and the row records which day’s rate was used. The converted column sums.
No readable total, no date, no exchange rate for that day — it holds the document for you and says why. Nothing is invented to fill a cell.
Every document is recognised by its own contents, so a loop that runs again over the same mailbox quietly skips whatever it has already filed.
Every run keeps a transcript. “What happened at 4am” has an answer you can read, not a log line.
A loop is a schedule, an instruction and an assistant. Chase overdue quotes on Tuesday with the same machinery.
Connect a mailbox and a folder. Watch the first run. Decide from there.