Sage Job Costing

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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 and Sage 50 Payroll, providing comprehensive cost analysis for your business.

Sage 50 Job Costing Professional

Sage 50 Job Costing Professional offers additional features, such as purchase order processing and batch timesheet entry, that are ideal for larger companies with more complex requirements. Call 0800 33 66 33 to find out more.

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In-depth information about Sage 50 Job Costing

• Track the status of jobs easily, including milestones, summarise costs and revenue and budgets
• Define and track all cost elements of every job. With up to 10 analysis codes you can accurately track and analyse your costs.
• Split costs by their constitution component e.g. labour, materials, etc. - enabling you to analyse and run reports on each category.
• Use a range of management analysis reports, including profitability reports that show costs, revenue and profit made against each job. This ensures you know exactly how much profit has been made on each job.
• Automatically calculate invoices according to your choice of billing methods e.g. cost plus, fixed price or combination of charges based upon time, material and other costs.
• Post and print invoices against jobs whenever you like, helping you to get paid on time and improving your cash flow.
• Track how much of each employee’s time has been used and on which jobs.
• Integrates directly with Sage 50 Accounts, meaning that costs, timesheets and billing information need only be entered once, removing duplication and saving time.

Recommended hardware

• 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.