Construction Job Costing
Know the true cost of every project and every service call, at any given moment, with job cost software that integrates job costing and back office operations.
30+ Years of Construction Industry Experience And Over 14,000 Successful Users Can’t Be Wrong!
Manage Your Projects by Managing Your Costs
Jonas’ construction job costing software gives Project Managers real-time insights into their jobs to help them control actual costs.
Control Budgets and Track Labor & Material Costs with Precision
Gain real-time visibility into job budgets, allowing you to monitor and control labor and material expenditures as they occur—reducing overruns and increasing financial accountability across every phase of the job.
Reduce Risk and Drive Higher Profit Margins
Identify cost overruns, inefficiencies, and operational risks early in the project lifecycle. With proactive job cost tracking, you can correct course quickly and consistently meet or exceed profitability targets.
Generate Accurate WIP & Billing Reports—Fast
Easily produce Work-in-Progress and Over/Under billing reports with built-in drill-down functionality. Dive into transaction-level details to reconcile costs, billing, and job performance without manual data manipulation.
Flexible Billing Options with Real-Time Accuracy
Whether you bill by progress, AIA, time & materials, or unit pricing, ensure your billing is accurate and up to date. With instant access to billing data, you can streamline invoicing, reduce delays, and keep cash flow healthy.
Integrated to Support:
Stay Agile with Cost Updates
Easily see estimate vs actual costs and keep track of costs for labor, materials, equipment, subcontractor and overhead costs required for a project.
- Get insight into, and compare, estimated vs actual costs so you can see how a job is progressing.
- Easily compare original invoice values with supplier charges.
- Know what to bill and when to bill.
Stay Connected with Full Project Management Integration
The job costing solution is fully integrated with accounting and scheduling, which means that your operations in the field and back office are synchronized. You are fully in control with accurate and real-time data.
- Automatically track and update conflicts.
- Avoid double-booking of equipment and employees.
- Invoice management: Match payments to the invoices and record what has been received
Stay on Top of the Cash Flow
A healthy cash flow is important for construction and service businesses. Without accurate and timely job costing, knowing your true cash flow becomes a challenge.
- Understand where every dollar goes for keeping safe margins.
- Identify issues before they become major problems.
- Monitor job over/under billing for real-time cost control.
- Closely track change orders to better understand the cost impacts of each change and avoid costly overruns.
Stay Informed with Accurate Reporting
Accurate and timely data means your reports have integrity. With job costing reports fueled by real-time data, the information you need to be prepared is always available to you.
- Easily identify sources of cost overrun, and where margins may be more profitable.
- Design and customize reports with a native Business Intelligence solution.
- Identify trends and use the data to make more accurate bids.
Stay Efficient with Smart Automation
Streamline your construction workflows and focus on activities that generate more value. Changes in other modules are instantly reflected in the job costing module so your manual efforts are minimized.
- Automatically create jobs and estimates without the hassle of redundant administrative tasks.
- Import estimates from your favorite third-party construction management software.
- Automatically calculate any labor costs and apply them directly to the job costing.
Stay on Track with Automatic Project Forecasting
Manual job cost forecasting is time-consuming and still leaves room for error. Intelligent projections help you build accurate forecasts and support your data-driven planning. Ensure your jobs stay on budget and according to the plan.
- Track the real costs and projects of your construction job activities.
- Forecast cost-to-complete for every job, no matter how complex
- Attain final costs and measure against estimates and past performance.
Job costing for contractors who run construction and service
Jonas tracks costs across construction projects and service work in a single platform – so your margin visibility extends across your entire operation, not just your project list.
- Service contracts costed the same way as construction jobs - labor, materials, and overhead allocated automatically
- Technician hours allocated correctly whether logged against a project or a service call
- Service billing and construction progress billing in one view
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY:
The main reason we switched to Jonas Construction was its robust job costing feature. It makes our lives easier every day. Our legacy software was inefficient which led to lots of manual work and inaccurate calculations which resulted in lost profitability. Jonas job costing software streamlined our job accounting processes and make us more efficient and profitable.
Client Case Study
Having Jonas in place has provided BCI with:
- Greater insights into their construction business
- Real-time cost information
- Job tracking capabilities
- The ability to ensure that they are not falling behind or losing money before it's too late
Job Costing: FAQ
Job Costing software is software that helps project-focused businesses forecast and track the costs and revenues of a project or job. This means you can subsequently report on the profitability of a job by noticing, observing and assessing estimates vs actuals, which further allows you to provide detailed and accurate price estimates for the services you provide.
Job costing software helps construction companies gain real-time insight into the specific costs for each job for improved project management and cost control. Companies use this software to maintain profitability through the integrated management of pricing, invoicing, change orders, purchase orders, labor costs, budgeting, and more.
Jonas job costing software tracks the following data:
- Quantities/units of production
- Labor and equipment hours
- Extensive job information including name, address, customer, etc.
Both. Jonas tracks costs across construction projects and service work in a single system – which matters for specialty contractors whose technicians move between project sites and service calls in the same week.
For contractors who have kept service and construction costs in separate systems, this integration is typically where the biggest financial accuracy improvement shows up.
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