Job Costing

Our Job Costing feature was specifically designed for service based businesses. It's informative and easy-to-use. Total Office Manager® will tell you if you are making money on a particular job and how much. Easily determine which jobs are most profitable by comparing all job expenses versus revenue. Create job and project estimates quickly by breaking jobs down to the phase level. Review labor expenses by job. Total Office Manager tracks all labor expenditures so you know what jobs are going over your important labor estimates.

• View labor hours by job.
• Compare actual versus estimated labor and material costs.
• Quickly view all invoices billed out for each job.
• Easily create jobs per customer.
• Total Office Manager's Contact Log feature allows you to enter notes, conversations, and other information. This feature works like a contact manager. Entries can be sorted by subject, date, etc.
• Setup as many jobs as you wish per customer.

Here's How Job Costing Works in Total Office Manager

• Job costing is a fully integrated part of Total Office Manager. Whenever you create a proposal or estimate, make a sale, issue a credit, or offer a refund, Total Office Manager allows you to associate a job with that transaction.
• Total Office Manager's job costing allows you to create as many jobs as you wish. You can setup job of jobs of jobs (called phases). You can set credit limits or projections.
• When you enter a bill or write a check to purchase materials or equipment, you can associate a job with that purchase. Total Office Manager even allows you line by line job costing. This means that you can associate jobs to each and every line of a check or bill.
• Total Office Manager allows you to tag each and every labor hour to a job. You can break up the entire day if you wish, so that Total Office Manager tracks every minute!
• Total Office Manager even allows you to make adjusting journal entries by the job. This allows bookkeeping experts to precisely 'tidy up' the entire job costing system and produce the most accurate job costing reports possible.
• Print a detailed profit and loss statement on each and every job you setup in Total Office Manager.