A customer who cannot reconstruct an invoice will not pay it on time. They will open a ticket. They will ask for a spreadsheet. They will guess.
Scrip treats that as a defect in the document, not a defect in the customer.
What a line is
A stub is four numbers and a name:
- Quantity
- Unit
- Rate
- Amount
If you cannot point to those four on paper, you do not have a line. You have a summary. Summaries belong in a cover letter, not in the body of an invoice.
Why dashboards fail finance
Product teams like charts. Finance teams like periods. A chart can hide a rounding rule, an inactive seat, or a free-tier exemption. A stub cannot. That is the point.
When we print a period, we print the rule next to the number. Banker's rounding is a sentence, not a surprise.
The audit test
Hand the invoice to someone who does not work at your company. Ask them to recompute one stub with a calculator. If they need a login, the document failed.
That is the test we run before a book can close.
