For Small to Medium businesses

Sage Job Costing is a powerful tool to analyse and manage the costs of your jobs and services. It has all the features necessary to maintain accurate details of jobs, projects and contracts. You can track and evaluate actual costs against budgets and projections, in a wide range of categories such as timesheets, stock, distribution costs, materials and labour. Ensure your future calculations are based on facts, not guesswork. For total control of new and existing jobs, Sage Job Costing integrates with Sage Line 50 and Sage Payroll.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, flexible, easy to use and understand
• Monitor on-going costs against your projections
• Ensure that future calculations are based upon hard facts, not guesswork
• Control business costs, quickly and efficiently
• Estimates for future work can be prepared more quickly, accurately and confidently
• Provides instant and accurate picture of job value to your business
• Quickly see which elements are under or over budget
• Provides your business with a precise breakdown of every job status
• Understand costs of all new and existing jobs
  

Scalability
Can be applied to almost any sized business, from sole proprietor to medium sized businesses.

Versatility
Used by all types of businesses, from tradesmen to bigger companies like those in construction and manufacturing

Job Records
Simple entry of job cost details in Job Record for each job. Maintain job specific information including job, customer, progress and finance details. Instant access to Job Records for reference or updating.

Job Classifications
Record jobs by classification or design your own listings. Analyse jobs using classifications and user defined analysis types. Group your jobs together by classifications and categories so you can refer to them quickly and easily.

Customised cost structures
Select the costs for which you want to charge by allocating various business costs to individual activities. User definable cost structures can be tailored to suit your business. Unlimited number of tiers provides as much detail as your business requires.

Flexible billing
Choose when and how to invoice your customers via the flexible billing sheet. Select from a number of billing methods including cost plus, fixed price or a combination of time and materials charges. Print invoices and invoice backing sheets directly from Sage Job Costing.

Budgets
Set and monitor budgets at individual or group cost level. Revise budget figures at any time while maintaining vision of original set budget. Set overhead percentage mark-up rates and apply individual cost rates per activity.

Analysis features
In-depth enquiry function enabling users to enquire into any job status at any time, including job progress, job costs and revenue incurred to date. Pinpoint loss-making activities. Choose from a wide range of preset reports.

Report Designer
Create user defined reports. Control presentation and content of reports to tailor to individual business needs.

MS-DOS data conversion
Convert data from Sage Job Costing version 5.01 or above for MS-DOS®. Conversion routine transfers opening balances from MS-DOS to Microsoft® Windows®.

Improvements from MS-DOS version
Increased security options, negative stock handling, Report Designer with structuring of reports, printing of invoices and web-enabling.

Integrated solution
Integrates with Sage Line 50 Accounting and links to Sage Payroll, providing comprehensive costing solution. Post stock movements, bank statements, customer invoices or purchase credits to Line 50. Transfer timesheet hours to Sage Payroll.

You must have Sage Line 50 Accountant Plus or Financial Controller (version 6 or higher) in order to run Sage Job Costing. For optimal costing solution, you can also use Sage Payroll (v 7.x or higher).

Recommended System Requirements
Microsoft Windows® 95, 98, 2000 or Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation v4
Intel® Pentium® or higher class processor running at 133MHz or higher
At least 32 MB of RAM
CD-ROM drive
50 MB of hard disk space available (after Microsoft® Windows® has been installed)
SVGA or higher resolution monitor
A printer supported by Windows
Windows compatible mouse or pointing device

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