Readings and review

Readings are the base of everything: a wrong reading means a wrong invoice. So they go through review.

How they arrive

The caretaker (or you) photographs the meter with a phone. The app sends only the photo and gets the digits back, filled into the field. The photo stays attached to the reading — it is the proof.

If the AI cannot read the photo — bad light, blur, a dirty glass — nothing stops: the field stays empty and the value is typed in by hand. The photo is still kept. The AI assists; it never gates the reading.

Whoever was at the meter submits it; someone else confirms. The reading enters with the status pending review. Nothing is approved on its own.

The review

Meters → Review.

The list is ordered so the doubtful ones come first. Doubtful means the value does not fit this meter’s history — an apartment that usually uses 300 kWh suddenly reads 1050. Tabloto does not know why; it only knows it is worth your eyes.

For each reading:

• the photo — zoom in and see the digits yourself;
• the value — as read or as typed;
• the previous reading and the difference.

Three options:

• Approve — the value is right. It counts toward the month’s consumption.
• Correct — the digit is wrong. Type the right one and approve. What the AI read is kept separately and never overwritten — it is the record of what the machine suggested, not of what is true.
• Reject — the photo is no good. The meter gets read again.

Approved readings are the ones invoices are calculated from. An unapproved reading does not take part.

If a meter was replaced or rolled over

Consumption is the difference from the previous reading. If a new meter starts from zero, that difference would come out negative. In such a month Tabloto records zero consumption for that meter rather than guessing how many digits the old one had. The month passes; if a correction is needed, it is made deliberately.

Why nothing is auto-approved

Because an invoice issued from a wrong reading is not fixed by editing it — it is fixed with a credit note, after the owner has already seen the wrong amount. Thirty seconds of review costs less.