Improve your margins with accurate job costing

Enterprise gives contractors and professional service firms up-to-the minute information so you can stay on track and react quickly when costs cut into profits.

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Easily track job costs with QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

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Adapt in real-time to maximize your profits

With up-to-the-minute project information, you can react quickly when costs are cutting into profits.

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Nail your estimates

See the difference between estimated costs and actual costs so you can make more accurate budgets in the future.

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Capture every cost

Assign every expense to a project as it is incurred to make sure nothing slips through the cracks.

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Strategically plan for the future

Accurate project expenses let you identify patterns so you can focus your business on your most profitable services.

Built with your business in mind

QuickBooks Enterprise has the most robust job costing of any QuickBooks product, with special features designed for construction & contractors as well as for professional service companies.

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Job costing for contracting and construction

Accurate job costing helps you stay on top of costs and cash flow. You’ll be able see which jobs are making money and which aren’t, so you can make adjustments before it’s too late.

Job Costing Center

The Job Costing Center gives you a snapshot of how your business is doing overall. It summarizes key information on one dashboard. Drill down into the details to see which projects are the most profitable, or which ones need your attention.

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Job Costing Center

The Job Costing Center gives you a snapshot of how your business is doing overall. It summarizes key information on one dashboard. Drill down into the details to see which projects are the most profitable, or which ones need your attention.

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Track costs automatically

Enterprise saves you time and effort by letting you assign material costs to projects as soon as expenses are incurred. Easily attach employee digital timesheet entries to a project. Enterprise does the calculations for your reports and invoices so you’re in control of your costs.

Track costs automatically

Find expenses not assigned to jobs

Enterprise gives you visibility into all expenses not currently assigned to a job so you can make sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Find expenses not assigned to jobs

Flexible billing rates

Assign different hourly rates to different employees. Assign one rate for your foreman and another for your workers. There are no limits on the number of different rates, which are reflected automatically on invoices as well as job cost and profitability report

Flexible billing rates

Easily manage change orders

Eliminate surprises for your clients with accurate, complete estimates, including change orders. Track and highlight changes to existing estimates, showing all change orders and the resulting cost impact, every time.

Easily manage change orders

Committed costs by job report

The committed costs by job report lets you see how much you’ve spent by project, how much you still need to spend to completion, and how far over or under budget you are. It even tracks non-posting costs like open purchase orders and unpaid wages.

Committed costs by job report

Work-in-progress report

The work-in-progress report lets you see the percent complete of each line item in your estimate. It gives you up-to-the-minute information on expected and actual revenue for jobs in progress and tells you what you can invoice for right now.

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Job costs by job

This report lets you see where your money is going by giving you a summary view of job-related expenses for each job you’re working on.

Job costs by job

Employee time tracking

Whether you have workers on multiple job sites, in the field, or multiple offices, everyone can use QuickBooks Time on their mobile devices to track time. Geofencing* gives employees alerts to clock in or out when entering or leaving a job site. And there’s no need to manually comb through timesheets to enter hours in your payroll system – tracked time is imported into QuickBooks with one click to save you time and stop errors.

*Formerly TSheets Elite; per-employee fees apply.

Employee time tracking

Project costing for professional services

From materials to billable hours to payroll, you can track all your costs to keep projects profitable.

Get profitability insights at a glance

See at a glance which projects – and which team members – bring in the most revenue. An interactive dashboard shows you profitability by customer, project, staff, and service. You can modify to show profitability by geography, customer fields, and more.

Get profitability insights at a glance

Get profitability insights at a glance

See at a glance which projects – and which team members – bring in the most revenue. An interactive dashboard shows you profitability by customer, project, staff, and service. You can modify to show profitability by geography, customer fields, and more.

Get profitability insights at a glance

Bill by multiple hourly rates

No matter how many different hourly rates your team bills at, Enterprise can handle it. Costs are calculated automatically based on each employee’s unique hourly rate—and reflected that way on client invoices. You can assign different billing rates by client, project, or service. Consolidated invoices will reflect billable amounts by hours worked, flat fee arrangements, or a combination of both methods.

Bill by multiple hourly rates

Calculate costs automatically

Assign material costs to projects at the time expenses are incurred. Easily attach digital timesheet entries to a project. Enterprise does the calculations for your project cost and profitability reports and invoices so you’re in control of your costs.

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Track unbilled hours and expenses

Get visibility into all your expenses, including hours worked that are not currently assigned to a project. Add unbilled hours to your next invoice. See unbilled hours by person, project, service, client, or any combination of these.

Track unbilled hours and expenses

Track project progress and profitability

Zero in on progress and profitability for specific projects. At any time, you can quickly determine if a project is scheduled to finish on time and if costs will meet, exceed, or fall below your forecasted plan.


Track project progress and profitability

View all project costs by project

See where all the money is going with a summary view of project-related expenses for each project.

View all project costs by project

Employee time tracking

With QuickBooks Time Elite,* time tracking won’t be time consuming. When you have employees at multiple client sites, everyone can use QuickBooks Time Elite on their laptop or mobile device to clock in and out. Then tracked time is imported into QuickBooks with one easy click, saving you time and cutting down on manual entry errors.

*Formerly TSheets Elite; per-employee fees apply.

Employee time tracking

Frequently asked questions

Now available: QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise 24.0.