I am a small business using Quickbooks like most of the US I would imagine. I am looking for something I can use to track profitability per job. I have a pretty good idea, I am looking for something more streamlined and perhaps outside the box of whatever I am trying to be sold.
I have spreadsheets and they work fine, but I was wondering if there was anything anybody was using that they really like and felt like helped them really pin down profitability numbers and labor.
I use Deltek Vision, but we're close to 500 employees. It looks like they do have some solutions for smaller firms
http://www.deltek.com/cloud/professionalservices
We use Deltek Vision also. It is more powerful than I can imagine or understand. I think I use it at about the 1% level. It will generate any report you can dream of!
You might look in to Ajera , which is by the same company that makes Vision, but is intended for smaller businesses.
James Fleming, post: 369896, member: 136 wrote: I use Deltek Vision, but we're close to 500 employees. It looks like they do have some solutions for smaller firms
I looked at Deltek, but that is extremely expensive for a small shop. I think it was around $70 per employee/user. It is really good stuff, just too rich for my blood.
Mark Mayer, post: 369930, member: 424 wrote: You might look in to Ajera , which is by the same company that makes Vision, but is intended for smaller businesses.
We use Ajera...and it does a nice job of keeping track of time. I don't like the way it sets up the invoices, they are a little hard to read.
C.Tompkins, post: 369883, member: 975 wrote: I am a small business using Quickbooks like most of the US I would imagine. I am looking for something I can use to track profitability per job. I have a pretty good idea, I am looking for something more streamlined and perhaps outside the box of whatever I am trying to be sold.
I have spreadsheets and they work fine, but I was wondering if there was anything anybody was using that they really like and felt like helped them really pin down profitability numbers and labor.
What version of Quickbooks are you using. With premium we can track hours and it appears to have reports to track profitability.
"Job costing software"
Like software so bad it'll cost you the job? I think they called it Smartworx......Microstation was pretty weird too. They taught that at Rutgers when I was there, but I think they switched to Autodesk a couple years later. I was kind of annoyed that they taught us Microstation but all the engineering firms around used AutoCAD....
Try paymo. Cheapish and basic but can be nice to track quoted time vs actual time and the like and its online
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John Putnam, post: 370402, member: 1188 wrote: What version of Quickbooks are you using. With premium we can track hours and it appears to have reports to track profitability.
We got with out accountant and she has helped us out a great deal. We just recently updgraded to Premium for that feature and added Tsheets for the crews so they can track time. It is a work in progress, but much cheaper than the $65-125 per employee per month some of the other software companies wanted to charge for basically the same thing. One thing I can say up to this point for the residential jobs that we have worked on and run through the current job costing system is that there is no money in residential small lots and we are trying like to hell to move away from them altogether!!!
Regardless of what software is used, I can't imaging going back to working without monthly reports on profitability, individual job multipliers, employee utilization rates, etc.
