# Job Costing Software in Amersham > Job Costing Software for businesses in Amersham. CubeERP covers Amersham and Olney, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury, with on-site implementation and support from our Olney office. **URL:** https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/job-costing-software/buckinghamshire/amersham Amersham is well within our regular travel radius from Olney, which means implementation here is done in person rather than over a screen share. That matters more than it sounds: most of what a system needs to know is learned by standing in the building. ## Details - **Solution:** Job Costing Software - **Group:** Commercial - **Platform:** CubeERP (https://cubeerp.co.uk/platform) - **Location:** Amersham, Buckinghamshire - **Distance from our Olney office:** 34 miles - well within our regular travel radius from Olney - **Postcode districts:** HP6, HP7 - **Also known as:** Job cost software, Project costing software, Work in progress reporting, Contract costing software, Job tracking software ## Coverage We cover Amersham and the surrounding area, including Old Amersham, Amersham-on-the-Hill, Chesham Bois, Waterside and Woodside, across the HP6 and HP7 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Olney, Milton Keynes, Aylesbury and High Wycombe and elsewhere in Buckinghamshire. ## What is included - **Labour booked where it happened:** Shop-floor and mobile booking against the job and operation, with clock-on/clock-off, so labour cost is real time rather than reconstructed from memory on a Friday. - **Material at issue:** Stock charged to the job when it is issued, at the valuation method you use, including scrap and over-issues - so a job that is eating material shows it immediately. - **Sub-contract and buy-outs:** Purchase orders raised against the job, committed cost recognised at order rather than at invoice, and receipt matched back to the job automatically. - **Work in progress you can trust:** Live WIP by job, cost centre and period, with accruals your accountant can actually use at month-end instead of a schedule built by hand. - **Drift flagged early:** Jobs tracking over estimate raise an alert at a threshold you choose, while the work is still in progress and something can still be recovered. - **Profitability by anything:** Margin by job, customer, product family, salesperson, site or period - built from the same numbers, so two reports never disagree. ## Real-world use cases ### Profit discovered at year end **Scenario:** A fit-out contractor knew its overall margin annually and its job-level margin never. Loss-making work was only identified when the accountant asked why the year had been disappointing. **Outcome:** Job margin is now visible from week one and reviewed weekly. Two recurring contract types were repriced within a quarter, and a third was declined next time it came round. ### Labour that vanished **Scenario:** A manufacturer recorded labour on paper job cards, keyed weekly, with roughly a fifth never matching a job. That fifth was absorbed into overhead and made every job look better than it was. **Outcome:** Shop-floor booking on tablets removed the paper step. Unallocated labour fell below 3%, and true product-level margin moved enough to change the pricing on two product lines. ### A month-end that took a week **Scenario:** WIP was calculated in a spreadsheet from four exports. It took most of a week, it was always slightly wrong, and it was never available in time to be useful. **Outcome:** WIP is now live and reconciles to the ledger. Month-end takes a day, and the number is available on any day of the month rather than only after it. ## Figures - **Live** Cost while the job is still running - **By line** Actual against estimate, explained - **Days** Month-end WIP instead of a week ## Frequently asked questions **How is overhead allocated?** By the rule you already use - machine hour rate, labour hour rate, percentage of material, per cost centre, or a combination. The rule is explicit and can be changed and re-reported, rather than being buried in a spreadsheet formula. **Does it work for long contracts?** Yes. Multi-stage contracts with applications for payment, retentions, valuations and phased revenue recognition are supported, with WIP and accruals reported per period. **Can we compare against the original quote?** That is the point of it. The estimate is stored with the job, and actual cost is reported against it by category - so you can see whether the problem was the price, the estimate or the execution. **How does time get recorded?** Shop-floor terminals, mobile devices, engineer apps in the field, or a weekly timesheet screen - whichever suits the role. All of them post to the same job cost record. **Does this replace our accounts package?** No. Job costing lives in CubeERP and the resulting journals, WIP and invoices sync to Xero, Sage or QuickBooks. Your accountant keeps their ledger and gains numbers they can rely on. ## Related solutions - **Quoting & Estimating Software** - Build quotes from live material costs, labour rates and real availability - then convert the winners to orders without retyping them. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/quoting-software/buckinghamshire/amersham - **Manufacturing Software** - Bills of materials, works orders, routings, shop-floor booking and real job costing - for businesses that make things to order. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/manufacturing-software/buckinghamshire/amersham - **Field Service Software** - Schedule engineers, dispatch jobs to a phone, capture time, parts and sign-off on site, and invoice from the same record. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/field-service-software/buckinghamshire/amersham - **ERP Software** - One system for quotes, orders, stock, production, purchasing and invoicing - built in the UK for growing businesses. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/erp-software/buckinghamshire/amersham ## Elsewhere in Buckinghamshire See https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/job-costing-software/buckinghamshire for job costing software across Buckinghamshire. ## Contact - **Product:** CubeERP - **Trading name of:** Cube Systems Limited (company number 17220899, ICO registration number ZC216972) - **Email:** hello@cubeerp.co.uk - **Sales:** sales@cubeerp.co.uk - **Support:** support@cubeerp.co.uk - **Telephone:** 01234 672 617 (+441234672617) - **Address:** Unit 11, Olney Business Park, Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP - **Opening hours:** Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm - **Part of:** Crushed Ice Group (https://crushedicegroup.co.uk)