The date column you overwrite
How many times
did they move it?
Your system keeps one promised date, and every update writes over the last one. Drop your saved supplier emails here and get back every date that supplier ever named on a purchase line — in order, with the sentence they wrote it in.
- 01Choose saved messages
- 02Read the timeline
- 03Check your on-time number
This browser will not keep anything between visits — a private window and a blocked-storage setting both do this. The timeline is built from your own files either way; you will just be asked for the folder again next time.
01 / Your source
Start with the supplier's own emails
Save the messages out of your mail application and choose them here. Both Outlook .msg and .eml files are read. Nothing else is needed — no column mapping, no export, no connection to your system.
Drop your saved messages here
Read locally in your browser. Your original files are unchanged.
Watch the folder you save this mail into
Choose the folder once. Every time you open this page it reads that folder again and marks what arrived since you last looked. The folder stays on your computer; only your choice of it is remembered here.
How to save the messages out of your mail application
New Outlook and Outlook on the web
Open the message, choose More actions (…) → Save as. It saves an .eml file. Dragging mail straight into a browser is not supported here, so use Save as.
Classic Outlook for Windows
File → Save As saves an .msg file. You can also select several messages and drag them into a folder, then choose that folder's files here.
Gmail
Open the message, then ⋮ → Download message. It saves an .eml file.
Apple Mail
File → Save As and choose Raw Message Source. It saves an .eml file.
Save the whole thread if you have it. A message you do not save is a promise this timeline never sees.
02 / What they actually said
The dates they named
Dates this reader would not attach to a line
Each of these is a real date in a real message. It is shown rather than guessed at, so you can decide what it belongs to.
Messages read
What this timeline does and does not establish
03 / The number you report
Measure the same receipts against what they wrote
Your on-time figure is measured against a date somebody here typed into the order. This measures the same receipts a second time against the supplier's own quoted date, and shows you both. It does not tell you which one is right — that is your call, and this only puts their sentence next to the arithmetic.
A CSV of received purchase lines, with a header row. Read in this tab like everything else here: not uploaded, not stored, not sent anywhere.
Lines this reconciliation would not measure
Each of these is excluded from both figures, so neither is computed over a set the other never saw.
What was read out of your export
What this reconciliation does and does not establish
Words, not events.
A record of what was said.
This timeline reads the sentences in the messages you chose. Every date it shows is quoted from the supplier's own words, and a date it cannot quote is not shown at all.
It does not know what shipped, what arrived, or who was at fault. A moved date is a reason to ask a question; it is not a breach, a chargeback or a claim.