Doing the jobJob costing

Find out what the job made, while you can still do something about it

Labour, materials and expenses set against the price you quoted, job by job.

Your first 14 days are free, and nothing is charged until they are up.

What this takes off your week

The year was busy and the bank account says otherwise, and you cannot point at which jobs did it.

Every job shows what it was quoted at and what it consumed, so the losing kind of work is nameable.

You know your hourly rate. You do not know what an hour has to earn before you keep any of it.

Your real overhead is turned into the figure a day has to bring in before you make a cent.

Materials are a receipt in the glovebox and a guess in the spreadsheet.

What a litre of paint or a sheet of ply costs you is recorded once, and how much of it a job of this size eats is applied from there.

Labour comes from clocked, approved time against that job. It is not a separate number somebody re-enters.

An expense belongs either to a job or to the business. Keeping them apart is what makes both the job margin and the overhead figure true.

Costs are shown against what you quoted, which is the comparison that tells you whether to price that kind of work differently next time.

Labour, materials and expenses against the price you quoted, so you know what you actually made.

Only approved hours are a cost: Hours still waiting on approval are reported separately and never folded into the total.
An unknown rate is not free labour: Somebody with no hourly rate contributes hours and no money, and the total is marked as knowably short rather than quietly low.
Missing is not the same as nothing: A job with no estimate has no variance and no margin figure at all — it is never reported as on budget.
The estimate is a snapshot: Variance is measured against the costing saved when the quote was written, not against today's price book, and the date of that snapshot is shown beside it.
Nothing is recomputed while a quote sits still: If a costing was saved it comes back exactly as saved — not one field refreshed — so no figure moves under you between one look and the next.
It is a separate read from the quote itself: The quote's own response feeds the PDF and the client's link, so cost and margin cannot leak by accident.
Switched off means refused: Not zeroes. A panel of zeroes reads as a job that cost nothing.

Every plan includes all of it. Plans differ by how many people can work in the account, not by which features they are allowed to use.

Job costing
Labour, materials and expenses against the price you quoted, so you know what you actually made.
Materials on the job
What went on site, what it cost, and what is still to buy.
Expenses and overhead
Record what you spend, split what belongs to a job from what belongs to the business.
Your break-even price
What a day has to bring in before you make a cent, worked out from your real overhead.
Material costs and recipes
What a litre of paint or a sheet of ply costs you, and how much of it a job of this size eats.

Each of these has a page of its own.

The first 14 days are free. Bring your own rates, your own logo and the client list you already have.

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