In the shop, on your phone
Standing in a showroom, take the photo, paste the link, put in the price. It is on the list before you leave the building, and the project total has already moved.
Before you have decided
Add the bed before you have chosen the bed.
An item does not need a price, a picture or a link to exist. Put in "bed" because you know you need one, and it sits on the list until you decide. Mark it confirmed when you have chosen, purchased when you have paid, and it moves through the project with you.
What is still to buy
The list is not only what you have bought. It is what you have decided, what you are still choosing, and what you have not started thinking about — so nothing is forgotten between one shop and the next.
Twenty-five items, one visit
One trip to one shop can produce twenty-five things. Enter the names in one screen, then set the store, the receipt and the delivery window once for all of them rather than twenty-five times.
And the rest of it
A renovation is not only a budget.
Delivery schedule
Give an item a delivery window — a date, or a window with times — and see the whole renovation as a calendar or a list. Mark things confirmed when the store confirms, and delivered when they turn up. And an item does not need a price to be on the schedule. "Internet installation" with no cost still lands on the calendar on the day it happens.
Documents
Quotes, contracts and drawings kept with the project rather than in an inbox. Uploaded once, there for everyone who is allowed to see them.
Receipts
One receipt usually covers several items. Attach it once and point every item on it at the same file, instead of uploading the same photograph six times.
Floor plan and 3D
Keep the floor plan with the project, and link a 3D model of the finished rooms so everyone is arguing about the same picture.
