Sage 50 Job Costing: Features
- Keep track of job-specific information including job and
customer progress and finance details
- Record jobs by classification and add your own additional
analysis fields
- Set the level of cost tracking required for each job,
allocating business costs to individual activities
- User-definable cost structures can be tailored to suit your
business
- Choose when and how to invoice your customers and print
invoices directly from the software
- Set and monitor your budgets
- Analyse any job at any time with the in-depth enquiry function,
focusing on job progress, job costs and revenue to date
- Links to Sage 50 Accounts Plus* and Sage 50 Accounts
Professional* and Sage 50 Payroll,
providing a comprehensive costing solution
Feature comparison table
| Feature |
Sage Job Costing |
Sage Job Costing Professional |
| Define and track all cost elements of every job. With up to 10
analysis codes you can accurately track and analyse your
costs. |
Y |
Y |
| Integrates directly with Sage 50 Accounts, meaning that costs,
timesheets and billing information need only be entered once,
removing duplication and saving time |
Y |
Y |
| Split costs by their constitution component e.g. labour,
materials, etc. enabling you to analyse and report on these
categories |
Y
|
Y |
| Track the status of jobs easily, including milestones,
summarise costs and revenue and budgets |
Y |
Y |
| Track how much of each employee’s time has been used and on
which jobs. |
Y |
Y |
| Invoices can be automatically calculated according to your
choice of billing methods e.g. cost plus, fixed price or
combination of charges based upon time, material and other
costs |
Y |
Y |
| Post invoices against jobs as and when you like, improving cash
flow |
Y |
Y |
| Offers a range of management analysis reports, including
profitability reports that show costs, revenue and profit made
against each job. This ensures that the you know exactly how much
profit has been made on each job |
Y |
Y |
| True multi-user capability, enabling several employees to use
the software simultaneously |
|
Y |
| Raise purchase orders against specific jobs, enabling you to
analyse costs and increase control over what you buy for specific
projects |
|
Y |
| Budget for costs that you have committed to, but haven’t yet
been invoiced for |
|
Y |
| Save time by processing all your timesheets in a single batch
rather than entering all the details on an individual basis |
|
Y |
* Please note: Sage Job Costing only links to
Sage Line 50 Accountant Plus, Sage Line 50 Financial Controller
v9.0 or above, Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Sage 50 Accounts
Professional.