Sage 50 Job Costing

Sage 50 Job Costing lets you break down the costs of jobs and projects, helping you stick to your budget and stay on schedule

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• Overview

• Sage 50 Job Costing is truly flexible, so no matter what your requirements it will help you manage your cost control and analysis.  You can choose exactly how costs and revenues are broken down, in as much detail as you want, making it easier to assess and control all of your projects.

• Flexible-billing features to help you to calculate how much you can bill each customer. It lets you:

  • Set and closely monitor budgets for your projects, so you always know exactly where you stand.
  • Keep track of job-specific information including job progress, customer information 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 costs to individual activities or projects.
  • Flexible cost structures can be tailored to suit your business
  • Choose when and how to invoice your customers, and print invoices directly from the software
  • Analyse any job at any time with the in-depth enquiry function, focusing on job progress, costs and revenue to date.
  • Integrates with Sage 50 Accounts Plus, Sage 50 Accounts Professional and Sage 50 Payroll, providing comprehensive cost analysis for your business.

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• Store all your information in one place

• • Job Number.
  • Job Status.
  • Job description.
  • Contact information.
  • Customer details.
  • Billing information.
  • Labour & employee timesheets.
  • Materials used.

• Break down your costs in detail

  • Manage more than one job at a time and analyse and compare their costs and progress.
  • Individually track the different cost elements of any job or project.
  • Accurately analyse your costs against materials, labour, wages and other key costs.
  • Set up to 10 definable analysis codes per job.
  • Create cost analysis codes specifically for each job
  • Group jobs together by code or category for quick and easy analysis.

• Set key milestones

  • Track the status of your jobs as you go.
  • Compare the progress of different jobs
  • Set key milestones and deadlines.
  • Summarise costs, budget, revenue and expenditure and against each key milestone.
  • See the percentage of work completed for each milestone.

• Analyse costs precisely

  • Split costs by their component - labour, Materials and other key costs.
  • Create an unlimited number of multi-tiered cost structures.
  • Analyse individual costs or group them together.
  • Highlight your most profitable jobs.
  • Identify less profitable jobs that might need more focus.

  • In-depth enquiry function

    • See the status of any job at any given time.
    • Extract information for yourself, customers or management.
    • See progress - clearly see timings and percentage of work completed.
    • Cost Summary - monitor actual costs and track them against budget over a period of time.
    • Revenue Summary - view the latest on billing, costs incurred and profit to date.

  • Flexible reporting

    • Range of management analysis reports.
    • Budget.
    • Budget Revisions.
    • Profitability.
    • Cost.
    • Revenue.

  • Manage your finances

    • Record costs, timesheet and billing information.
    • Integrates with Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Professional.
    • No need to re-enter cost data.
    • Removes duplication and saves you time.

  • Manage your customers

    • Post and print invoices directly from Job Costing to ensure speedy payment.
    • Automatic calculations save you time.
    • Let customers know exactly when payment is due.
    • Provide details of you preferred payment methods.
    • Raise credit notes to keep your customers happy.
    • Allocate invoices to specific elements of your job.

  • Manage your people

    • Track how much of each employee's time has been used and on which jobs.
    • Use varied salary rates if need for different employees.
    • Integrates directly with Sage 50 Payroll.
    • Import employee information directly from Sage 50 Payroll.
    • Transfer payroll data directly into Sage 50 Payroll.
    • No need to waste time re-entering payroll data.

    • Technical Specifications

      • An IBM®-compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor
      • At least 1GB RAM
      • At least 1GB of free disk space after Microsoft® Windows has been installed
      • Network users only: 1Gbps network with Microsoft Windows networking
      • Display Settings: 1024 x 768 resolution

      Minimum hardware

      • An IBM®-compatible computer with a 1GHz (or equivalent) processor
      • 512MB RAM
      • 700MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows has been installed
      • Network users only: 100Mbps network with Microsoft Windows networking
      • Display Settings: 1024 x 768 resolution

      Compatible operating systems

      • Windows 2000
      • Windows XP Service Pack 3
      • Windows Vista
      • Windows 7
      • Windows Server 2008
      • Windows Server 2003

      Technical notes

      • Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks, and it only possible to install one copy on a single computer.
      • Works with Microsoft Office 2003 and all later editions, and please ensure you have the latest Microsoft updates installed.
      • This product will not install or run on the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows NT4 operating systems.
      • The latest service packs should be installed for your operating system before installing or upgrading Sage products. 32-bit Operating Systems recommended.
      • Whilst there are no browser requirements for Sage Job Costing, we recommend Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or above for internet access to Sage Support and important Sage updates for your products.
      • A Sage 50 Job Costing licence allows you to install the software on a single workstation. If you would like to use the program over a network you'll need Sage 50 Job Costing Professional.

      Apple Mac compatibility

      Sage software is not compatible with Apple Macs, unless you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 via Apple’s Boot Camp utility.