Job costing software for manufacturers
Job costing software shows the real margin on every job: materials, labour and outside work against what you charged, while the job is running rather than a month after. Praxa Tech builds job costing into a custom ERP for manufacturers in Australia and New Zealand, from the bills of materials, work orders and time your business already records.
Margin found out a month too late.
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Margin known too late
By the time the numbers are in, the next ten jobs were quoted the same way.
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Labour guessed
Hours are estimated after the fact, if they're recorded at all.
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Quote never meets actual
Nobody compares what was quoted with what it really took.
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Outside work lost
Subcontract and freight costs sit in a different file.
Every cost, landing on the job that caused it.
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Real margin per job
Per job, per customer and per product.
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Labour from real time
Clock-on time by job flows straight into the cost.
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Quote against actual
See where the estimate was right, and where it keeps being wrong.
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Made versus bought
In-house and subcontract costs kept separate and both counted.
Job costing draws on the same records as your quoting, scheduling and stock. Accounting stays in Xero or MYOB.
Where to look next.
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Solution
Shop-floor time tracking
Clock on and off by job, and see where the hours went.
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Solution
Quoting software
Price from real costs, send in minutes, turn a yes into an order.
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Production scheduling
Every work order against the machines and people you actually have.
What people ask first.
Where does the labour figure come from?
From the time staff clock against each job. See shop-floor time tracking.
Can it show margin by customer?
Yes. By job, by customer and by product.
Does it replace our accountant's reports?
No. Your accounts stay in Xero or MYOB; job costing is the operational view underneath them.
Is job costing sold on its own?
It is usually part of a wider custom system. Most builds come in under $35,000, fixed in writing before we start, with no per-user fees. See pricing.
See your margins in a real system.
Tell us how you cost a job today and we'll build a working demo of it, free, in 48 hours.