Four months into the job. You will know if it earned when it ends.
Money is committed months before it is invoiced. Materials, labour and subcontractors all belong to a job, and the job has to be readable while it is still running rather than after it closes.
Sound familiar?
If none of these are your business, this probably is not the page for you — and we would rather you found that out here than on a call.
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The job has been running four months. You will find out whether it made money when it finishes.
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Material went to site on a delivery challan and the office never saw it.
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Three jobs share one labour bill, and it gets split by whoever is doing the books that week.
Costs that belong to a job, readable before it closes.
What you will be looking at
The screens this trade lives in
Every one of these exists today. Nothing here is something we would build for you later — that part has its own heading further down.
Costing
Every rupee assigned to the job it belongs to, against what the job was quoted at.
Purchases
Materials and subcontractors, ordered against a job rather than against the month.
Bill desk
Site bills photographed on site, coded to the job before they are lost in a van.
Payroll
Labour costed to the work it was actually doing.
Fixed assets
Plant and machinery, depreciation and disposals.
Reports
What the job has consumed against what it has been paid, today.
What it already does
About the hard part
- Costs assigned to a job and reported against it
- Materials issued and consumed
- Fixed assets, depreciation and disposals
Usually built on top
Progress billing and retention on the terms your contracts are actually written on.
Scoped and quoted in writing before anything is built, and it ships into your own books — so a custom report reconciles to the statutory ones rather than disagreeing with them.
How custom work fits in →Not quite your trade?
The ledger underneath is the same one. What changes is the costing, the chart of accounts and which screens you open first.
Bring a bill you have not entered yet
We photograph it on the call and you watch the draft entry come back. It is a better demonstration than anything we could write here.