Job Costing
Know what every job really made
Revenue is easy to see. Profit hides. A job that looks great on the invoice can lose money once you count four hours of labor, the parts and the trip back for the thing somebody forgot. Servgrow puts a dollar figure on your crew's time using each person's hourly rate, adds your price book costs and job expenses, and shows labor, total cost and profit right on the job and in your Sales report. Price the next job knowing exactly what the last one earned.
Why Job Costing Changes the Way You Price
Ask most owners which service makes them the most money and they'll name the one they do most. Run the numbers and it's often a different job entirely. Without labor in the math, a two hour job and a six hour job at the same price look identical, and your busiest crew can be the one quietly losing you money. Job costing fixes the blind spot. Once every job carries its real labor, materials and expenses, you can see which services to push, which to reprice and which customers are worth the drive.
On The Job
Profit on Every Job
Open any job and see what it cost and what it earned.
Labor, cost and profit: The job page shows labor, total cost and profit next to the price, so the number you see is what the job actually made.
Who worked and for how long: Time tracking on the job lists everyone who worked it, the type of time, how long it took and what it cost.
Time that records itself: On My Way, Start and Finish log travel and job time automatically, and techs can start their own timer from the job.
Labor Rates
Labor Costs You Can Trust
Labor comes from each employee's hourly rate, so every hour carries its real cost.
A rate for every person: Set what an hour of each employee's time costs you, with wages, benefits and taxes in, so the cost is realistic.
Raises don't rewrite history: Every rate has an effective date, and each hour is costed at the rate that applied the day it was worked.
No surprises on paid time: Before you save a new rate, Servgrow shows how much tracked time it affects and warns you if any of it was already paid.
Materials & Expenses
Every Cost on the Job, Counted
Labor is the cost most software leaves out. Servgrow counts it right alongside your materials and expenses.
Price book costs: Every service and material in your price book carries what it costs you, so the job knows what the parts cost.
Expenses on the job: Fuel, parts, subcontractors and the run to the supply house get logged against the job they were for.
One profit number: Labor, materials and expenses come together into one profit figure you can trust.
Reports
Find Your Most Profitable Work
Job costing really pays off when you look across all of your work at once.
Profit in the Sales report: Labor, total cost and profit for every job, for any date range, filtered down to a single service.
Labor cost by person: The Timesheets report adds up each person's hours and labor cost for any pay period, and exports to a spreadsheet for payroll.
Decisions backed by numbers: See which services earn the most for the hours they take, and price the rest to match.
What is Job Costing?
Job costing is adding up everything a single job costs you, labor, materials and expenses, and comparing it with what you charged, so you know the profit on that job rather than just the revenue. For a service business, labor is usually the biggest cost and the hardest to see, because it is spread across techs, travel and return visits. Servgrow calculates it from the time your crew already tracks and each person's hourly rate, then adds your price book costs and job expenses, so the profit on every job is there without a spreadsheet.
Wrap Up: Price Every Job Like You Know What It Costs
The businesses that grow are the ones that know their numbers job by job. With Servgrow job costing, labor, materials and expenses land on every job automatically, profit shows up where you already work, and the Sales report tells you which work deserves more of your week. Stop guessing at margins and start pricing with confidence.
