Know What Each Job Is Really Costing While It’s Still Running with Projects & Job Costing Software
A job rarely costs exactly what you expected when you quoted it. Materials get used, labour runs on, and extra purchases get added along the way.
Turbo brings those costs back to the project as they happen, so you can see the margin while there is still time to protect it in your Project & Job Costing Software.
Finding out after the job is finished is too late
Material gets used and recorded later, labour builds up, supplier costs arrive as the job progresses, and one-off purchases get made because the work needs them.
Meanwhile, the project can look healthier than it really is.
Turbo gives materials, purchasing, labour, billing and other project costs somewhere to meet while the work is still live. So when the job starts drifting away from plan, you can see it before the work is finished and the next one has already been priced.
A job can be fine on materials and losing money on labour.
Turbo separates labour hours and labour cost from product and material cost, with billed values alongside them. You can see what is moving the margin rather than waiting for one final number at the end.
And when a cost belongs to this job but not your normal product catalogue, free-entry project lines can capture things such as a one-off bought-in item or subcontractor cost.
Material used from stock can be transferred from its warehouse location directly onto the project.
Turbo records where it came from, which project received it and who picked it. Unit cost goes with the material, and batch information can be retained where traceability matters.
Someone still has to record what was used. But when they do, the stock movement and the project cost are recorded together.
Not everything a project needs will already be sitting on the shelf.
When project materials are imported, Turbo can automatically raise RFQs. The material requirement can move from the job into supplier purchasing without somebody typing the same list again.
So identifying what the project needs can start the work of sourcing it.
Turbo can show project material sitting on supplier purchase orders, including the project, supplier, quantity ordered and quantity received.
When goods arrive against the project, they can land directly onto its material record.
So the project manager can see what has been ordered, what has arrived and what is still outstanding without chasing the person who placed the PO.
You can cost a job perfectly and still leave money behind if completed work never reaches the invoice.
Turbo keeps project invoicing alongside the work and includes an UnInvoiced Items report for finding activity that has been done but has not yet been billed.
That gives you both sides of the job: what it is costing and what you still need to charge for.
A customer can approve and sign a quote, the quote can become the project, and a deposit can be taken through Stripe without rebuilding the job somewhere else.
Labour and time recorded against the project feed the job costing, so you can see what the hours are doing to the margin.
Projects have their own QA Checks area, so quality activity stays with the project it relates to.
A job can be fine on materials and losing money on labour.
Turbo separates labour hours and labour cost from product and material cost, with billed values alongside them. You can see what is moving the margin rather than waiting for one final number at the end.
And when a cost belongs to this job but not your normal product catalogue, free-entry project lines can capture things such as a one-off bought-in item or subcontractor cost.
Material used from stock can be transferred from its warehouse location directly onto the project.
Turbo records where it came from, which project received it and who picked it. Unit cost goes with the material, and batch information can be retained where traceability matters.
Someone still has to record what was used. But when they do, the stock movement and the project cost are recorded together.
Not everything a project needs will already be sitting on the shelf.
When project materials are imported, Turbo can automatically raise RFQs. The material requirement can move from the job into supplier purchasing without somebody typing the same list again.
So identifying what the project needs can start the work of sourcing it.
Turbo can show project material sitting on supplier purchase orders, including the project, supplier, quantity ordered and quantity received.
When goods arrive against the project, they can land directly onto its material record.
So the project manager can see what has been ordered, what has arrived and what is still outstanding without chasing the person who placed the PO.
You can cost a job perfectly and still leave money behind if completed work never reaches the invoice.
Turbo keeps project invoicing alongside the work and includes an UnInvoiced Items report for finding activity that has been done but has not yet been billed.
That gives you both sides of the job: what it is costing and what you still need to charge for.
A customer can approve and sign a quote, the quote can become the project, and a deposit can be taken through Stripe without rebuilding the job somewhere else.
Labour and time recorded against the project feed the job costing, so you can see what the hours are doing to the margin.
Projects have their own QA Checks area, so quality activity stays with the project it relates to.
Project & Job Costing Software for Businesses with Work Happening on Site
Turbo Inventory is a strong fit when jobs combine labour, materials, purchasing and customer billing, whether the work lasts a day or runs across a larger project.
Know Where the Margin Is Going Before the Job Is Over
When a project starts moving away from plan, see whether the pressure is coming from labour, materials, unexpected costs or work that still hasn’t been billed while there is still time to act.
And when you price the next job, do it knowing what the last one actually cost.
Keep the Accounts Package You Already Use
The problem may be in the hire operation, not the ledger.
Run the operational side in Turbo and connect the relevant financial activity with supported accounting systems including Big Red Cloud, Xero, QuickBooks and FreeAgent.
Your finance team does not have to take on an accounting migration just because the hire desk, yard and workshop need to work better together.
Integrate with ecommerce platforms to keep workshop management, billing, and inventory control aligned, ensuring faster and smarter hire operations.
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