Electrical and lighting
1½, 4x4, 20A, 2.5 mm². An electrician's list is a sequence of numbers, and none of them is a quantity. Tablia separates what is a measurement from what is an order and returns the quote for the salesperson to check.
The customer asks three stores and buys from whoever answers first. How long does your salesperson spend decoding descriptions before they even start quoting?
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Good afternoon, I need these items for the job today.
Good afternoon! Send them right here — text, a photo of the list or a file.
6 ring terminal 25 3 galvanised conduit 1 1/2 1 elbow 90 1 1/2 6 straight coupling 1 1/2 3 piercing connector 120mm 2 set 1 switch + socket 20A
Got it. That is 6 items — I am checking them against the store's stock now.
Quote #EC42 is ready. 5 of the 6 items; I marked the 120 mm piercing connector as missing.
📄 quote-EC42.pdf
The set can be from another range, as long as it is 20A.
It can. Here is version 2 of #EC42 with a 20 A set from another range; the previous one is now superseded.
📄 quote-EC42-v2.pdf
Illustrative conversation. Store, brands and codes are examples.
Count the numbers on the left: sixteen. Only six are quantities. The other ten are bore, angle, amperage and cable cross-section.
Store WhatsApp
Good afternoon, I need these items for the job today:
6 ring terminal 25
3 galvanised conduit 1 1/2
1 elbow 90 1 1/2
6 straight coupling 1 1/2
3 piercing connector 120mm
2 set 1 switch + socket 20A
07:12
What Tablia read
5 of 6 items found. Whatever is missing goes to the salesperson with the customer's original wording — nothing disappears from the quote quietly.
Illustrative example. The list and the catalogue names are fictional.
In an electrical supplier the rest of the description is not a detail: it is what separates the right part from the part that cannot be installed.
Delivering 10 A instead of 20 A is not a budget discrepancy — it is a part the electrician returns the same day. That is why amperage, voltage and module count discard a diverging candidate rather than treat it as close enough.
A number is not a quantity
1 1/2 is a bore, 4x4 is a box, 20A is amperage. None of the three says how many pieces the customer wants.
Amperage does not get rounded
10 A and 20 A are different products, with different prices and different uses. Approximating here is a guaranteed return.
The range becomes part of the name
The customer writes the switch range and your catalogue does too — but almost never the same way.
The list is read line by line, and the first number is told apart from the ones describing the part.
1 1/2, 4x4 and 2.5 mm² stay attached to the product. None of them becomes a count, and none is lost along the way.
A diverging specification discards the candidate. A request for 20 A does not get 10 A as a suggestion, even when the rest of the description matches.
“Set 1 switch + socket 20A” finds the item in your catalogue even with an abbreviated description. Alternative names for the same product are searched too.
An item your store does not carry goes to the salesperson with the customer's original wording, instead of vanishing from the list.
The list can arrive as
Handwriting is the only one that does not go in — returning a wrong quantity that looks right is worse than refusing the file.
What you upload
The stock file your store already uses, in CSV, XLS or XLSX. Tablia recognises the code, description and price columns with the help of artificial intelligence, and you check the mapping before it takes effect. All-caps descriptions, abbreviated range names and manufacturer codes do not block the search.
What it does with what it could not find
The item appears to the salesperson flagged as not found, with the customer's original wording. Tablia does not move the amperage up or down to find something similar. The decision is your team's: add the part, propose an equivalent, adjust the quantity or say the store does not carry it.
Nothing is sent to the customer automatically. The salesperson reviews item by item, adjusts quantities, swaps products, sets the price and decides when to send.
In electrical supplies human review is not a formality: it is the person who knows that this customer always takes the cheapest range, and that on that job the socket has to be 20 A.
Tablia takes on
You decide
Yes. Those numbers describe the part and stay part of the item name; only the number that represents a count becomes a quantity. It is the difference between quoting six one-and-a-half-inch couplings and quoting one and a half of something.
They almost never do. Tablia infers the unit from the item and from the context of the other lines — conduit usually comes in lengths, terminals in pieces. The inference appears on screen next to the item, and the salesperson corrects it if they disagree.
No. Amperage, voltage and number of modules are specification: a diverging candidate is discarded rather than offered. Swapping to another range while keeping the amperage is the salesperson's decision — and the customer's, when they authorise it.
No. You upload the stock file you already have, in CSV, XLS or XLSX, and Tablia recognises the code, description and price columns with the help of artificial intelligence. You check the mapping before it takes effect.
It appears to the salesperson flagged as not found, with the customer's original wording beside it. It does not turn into a similar item and it does not vanish from the list. The decision is yours: add it, propose an equivalent, or say the store does not carry it.
PDF, a photo in JPG or PNG, a spreadsheet in XLSX or XLS, a document in DOCX, CSV or typed text. The only one that does not go in is a handwritten list: Tablia does not accept handwriting, so it never returns a wrong quantity that looks right.
Never. Nothing is sent without the salesperson. They review item by item, adjust quantities, swap products, set the price and decide when to send. Tablia takes on the typing and the searching; the decision stays with whoever knows the job.
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In the demo we use a list your store received this week, against your own catalogue. It is the fastest way to find out whether Tablia can handle what you sell.
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