# Job Costing Software in Worcestershire > Job Costing Software built and supported in the UK, serving Worcestershire including Worcester, Kidderminster and Redditch. Configured around how you actually work, not the other way round. **URL:** https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/job-costing-software/worcestershire Across Worcestershire we see the same problem in different clothes: information that exists, but not in one place, and not in a form anyone can act on. Job Costing Software is how you stop paying for that twice. ## Details - **Solution:** Job Costing Software - **Group:** Commercial - **Platform:** CubeERP (https://cubeerp.co.uk/platform) - **Location:** Worcestershire - **Distance from our Olney office:** 64 miles - comfortably within a morning’s drive of our Olney office - **Postcode districts:** WR1, WR2, WR3, WR4, WR5, WR6, WR7, WR8, WR9, WR10, WR11, WR12, WR13, WR14, WR15, DY10, DY11, DY12, DY13, B60, B61, B97, B98 - **Also known as:** Job cost software, Project costing software, Work in progress reporting, Contract costing software, Job tracking software ## Coverage Our Worcestershire coverage includes Worcester, Kidderminster, Redditch, Bromsgrove, Malvern and Evesham, and the WR1, WR2, WR3, WR4 and WR5 postcode districts. If you are in Worcestershire and not on that list, we almost certainly still cover you, so ask. ## 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/worcestershire - **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/worcestershire - **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/worcestershire - **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/worcestershire ## 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)