Hello,
One of the Preferred Freelancers in iOS category here.
From my understanding, you want to a iPhone/iPad app with inventory control, user management system, ability to take photos of inventory items/jobs and also be able to send you a email of a report.
I am clear on what exactly your needs are, but the whole process you mentioned for managing the inventory is not clear enough. I need more details, and if possible, a step by step breakdown of the actions a user will take.
The backend of the app will be MySQL database, accessible via a PHP-REST API.
Do you want the email from app be sent from user's email account (they need a email acc setuped) or do you want to use your own dummy SMTP account to send the email ? In latter option, user does not need to setup anything and just hit a button to send the mail.
Feel free to reply to discuss more about the project.
Regards