FieldTech Construction Job Cost Tracking Software

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Whether or not you use Zoho now, one thing is for certain.  When you work with a construction company, when you combine physical materials with labor hours, your job costing calculations can be a bit complicated…to say the least.

Obviously, in construction, this is a very common problem to have.  (And, as a tech company, we’ve even been there ourselves.)  Even if everything else about your business looks smooth and elegant, at the end of the day, somebody – maybe even you – has to sit down at their desk and put together how profitable the company is.  And, sometimes, the sheer process of it all is enough to drive you crazy.

No matter how your business may seem, running a construction company with no job costing software system in place takes valuable time away from you, and produces unnecessary stress.

Fortunately, FieldTech construction job costing software is available to solve that very problem, and get you back to what you do best: managing your business.

Features of the Construction Job Cost Tracking Software

construction job cost tracking software

  • Track Labor on Jobs: 

    1. Add supplementary costs to a job for burden rates, adjustments, and overhead.
    2. Manage any change orders against their respective jobs.
    3. Generate invoices based on phase or milestone completion, or based on time & materials consumption.

  • Easy Time Sheets:

    1. Clock-in and Clock-out button for any job.  When a worker is already clocked into one job and clocks into another, the system clocks him out of the first job automatically.
    2. Calculate job prices from a rate card upon setup, or customize them per specific project.  The rate card calculates costs from employees’ payroll amounts.
    3. The system tracks GPS location and drive time.  It also auto-converts appointments to time sheet entries when completed.

  • Standard Reports for Any Job:

    1. Estimated time of completion of a job
    2. Percentage of completion of a job
    3. Project variance: Budgeted versus actual cost, and forecast amount upon completion

How the FieldTech Construction Job Costing Software Works

construction job costing software

This job costing app works in very much the same way you’d expect it to: It combines job data already in your system.  This includes things like time logged against work orders.  (Jobs can be made of multiple sales orders and work orders.)  You can also enter bills and expenses related to jobs.  The system then combines this data with benchmarks you set and gives you profitability statistics on each job you have.

As a result, you’ll see your original contract amounts compared to your change order amounts.  You’ll also see a history of all job stage/milestone completions by time, and cost.  Furthermore, you can easily differentiate between WIP liabilities (not-yet-recognized costs) and WIP revenue (estimated revenue to be booked when a job is closed) from your recognized costs and revenue.  These reports allow you to identify bottlenecks in your process, as well as gauge overall profitability trends.

The FieldTech Suite

Job costing software only works when connected to other parts of your business software system–well, unless you enjoy data entry.  So, rather than make you work harder, this construction job cost tracking software connects to an entire suite called FieldTech. FieldTech is built on Zoho Creator, so it connects to the rest of the Zoho ecosystem, and it’s very customizable.  The suite is designed to help many different kinds of service and manufacturing companies.  The job costing app can be customized to fit your exact construction business processes.

FieldTech includes these apps and features:

  1. Job quoting or estimating
  2. Work Order Scheduling
  3. Field Service work order management
  4. Manufacturing (Production) work order management
  5. Inventory/Product management
  6. Equipment & asset tracking
  7. Invoice & expense tracking
  8. Job costing
  9. Sales commission calculator
  10. And more…

How to begin? Get an assessment.

construction job cost tracking software

You may find yourself struggling with job costing, for one.  And, for that facet of your business to be effective, those calculations need to mesh well with whatever other business software you’re using. And that’s no matter if you use Zoho CRM, Zoho Creator, QuickBooks, or anything else.  You would never deploy new software for your business without knowing how it would affect everything else you’re working with – and neither would we.

Contact us today to get an assessment and see how this Job Costing app would impact the software you already use, and improve operations at your business for now and for years to come.