Now available on the App Store
CoreCredit is a core charge ledger for independent repair shops. Log the charge when the part comes in, get the old unit back to the right vendor before the window closes, and keep the money counted until the credit actually lands.
The problem
A core charge is refundable money your shop has already paid. It comes back only if the old unit reaches the right vendor before the window closes — and only once that vendor actually issues the credit. The gap between those two events is where the money quietly goes missing.
CoreCredit keeps a core counted as money at risk from the day the charge is logged until a real credit is recorded against it. Handing the part to the driver does not settle it. That single rule is the whole product.
How it works
Part, vendor, and the refundable amount printed on the invoice. Scan the barcode or type it in. The vendor's return window sets the due date for you.
The old unit is boxed, tagged and in its bin. Add a photo of the label or the receipt if you want the evidence attached to the record.
Cores group by vendor, so one driver pickup is one return batch with one reference number. The core moves to returned — awaiting credit, still counted.
Enter what the vendor actually credited. Matches in full, it closes. Comes back short, CoreCredit flags the shortfall and opens a dispute you can export.
Features
The dashboard opens on total money at risk, how much of it is already past the return window, and the specific cores that need a hand today — newest problem first, with the days overdue spelled out.
Record what the vendor actually paid. If it is less than the core charge, CoreCredit does the subtraction, marks the core disputed, and keeps the balance in your exposure — with the credit memo number, the credit date and the original invoice sitting right there when you call the counter.
Cores that are ready group themselves by vendor. Build the batch, keep the return reference, and the open returns list shows what each vendor is still holding and what the total owed adds up to.
Everything below runs on the device, and every field can be typed by hand if you would rather not point a camera at anything.
Live mode reads barcodes and highlights printed text for you to tap. Document mode flattens a whole invoice. Both run on device, and neither writes a record on its own — everything lands as a suggestion you confirm.
Part, vendor, expected credit. References, bin, evidence photos and notes stay folded away until you want them. The vendor's return window fills in the deadline.
Every core keeps an append-only history: created, edited, photographed, status changed, batched, returned, credited — each with its amount, its reference and its timestamp. Nothing is rewritten after the fact.
Turn on notifications and CoreCredit tells you before a return window closes rather than after. Off by default, and never required to use anything else.
Find a core by part, part number, invoice, repair order, vendor or bin. Filter by status when you want to see only what is overdue, only what is ready, or only what is still in dispute.
A spreadsheet for the office, a JSON backup for a new phone, a dispute packet for the vendor. Restore reads a backup this app wrote and tells you exactly what it is about to replace before it does it.
On the counter too
The same records, laid out for a bigger screen: a sidebar for Dashboard, Cores, Returns and Settings, and the full list beside it. Nothing to sync and nothing to sign into — each device keeps its own ledger.
Requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later.
Nothing you have already logged is ever locked away, on either plan.
Up to five unresolved cores at a time.
An auto-renewable subscription that removes the five-core limit.
Current pricing is shown in the App Store and inside the app, exactly as Apple reports it for your storefront.
Questions
Owner-operated one-to-five-bay shops — auto, diesel, collision and equipment repair — that do not have usable core tracking in an expensive shop-management suite. If your core log is a clipboard, a whiteboard or a shoebox of invoices, this is built for you.
Neither. There is no sign-in and no server. Put the phone in Airplane Mode and every feature still works except buying a subscription, which goes through Apple.
On your device, and nowhere else. We do not receive it, and there is no analytics or advertising code in the app to send it anywhere. Export a CSV or a JSON backup whenever you want a copy, and see the Privacy Policy for the details.
No. Scanning is a shortcut, never a requirement — the manual entry field is on the scan screen in every state, including when the camera is unavailable or you have declined access. The camera is only ever asked for after you open Scan core yourself.
Creating a sixth unresolved core asks you to upgrade. That is the only thing the limit blocks. Everything already in the app stays fully available to view, edit, photograph, credit and export, and closing a core out — credited or written off — frees the slot again.
No, and it is not trying to. CoreCredit is not a repair-order system, an accounting product or an inventory manager. It does one narrow financial job: tracking refundable core money until it comes back.
Version 1 is offered on the United States App Store, for iPhone and iPad running iOS or iPadOS 18 or later.
Email support@idlery.com. That address reaches the people who make CoreCredit. The support page also lists the things worth trying before you wait on a reply.
Log one core tonight and the dashboard will tell you the number tomorrow morning.
