QuickBooks Enterprise Job Costing

Included in Every Edition • Up to 20% Off MSRP

QuickBooks Enterprise
Job Costing

Know the true profit of every job. Assign labor, materials, subcontractors, and equipment to each project, compare estimates to actuals in real time, and catch overruns before they eat your margin.

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Plenty of businesses know whether the company made money this year. Far fewer can tell you which individual jobs made money — and which quietly lost it. Without job costing, a profitable-looking year can hide projects that ran over on labor, materials that were never billed back, and bids that were wrong from the start. Job costing turns that guesswork into hard numbers.

Job costing in QuickBooks Enterprise lets you assign every cost — labor, materials, subcontractors, and equipment — to the specific job it belongs to, then compare those actual costs against your estimate in real time. It’s included in every Enterprise edition, and goes deepest in the Contractor industry edition with phases, change orders, and construction-specific reports. CPAWarehouse is an authorized Intuit reseller offering every edition at up to 20% below MSRP.

Everything it includes

QuickBooks Enterprise Job Costing Features

A complete job-costing toolset built into QuickBooks Enterprise.

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Assign Every Cost to the Job

Tie labor, materials, subcontractor bills, and equipment costs directly to the job they belong to. Every purchase order, bill, check, and timesheet can carry a job, so your job cost reports reflect the full, true cost of the work — not just the obvious line items.

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Estimates vs. Actual

Build an estimate for each job, then track actual costs against it as the work progresses. QuickBooks shows budget-versus-actual in real time, so you see a job drifting over before it’s finished — while you can still do something about the margin.

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Phases & Cost Codes

Break larger jobs into phases and cost codes — site work, framing, electrical, finish — and cost each one separately. You see exactly where a job makes or loses money, and your estimating gets sharper as you build a history of real costs by phase.

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Change Order Tracking

Track approved change orders separately from the original estimate, with a clear cost and price impact for each. Job reports always reflect the current contract value, and clients get a clean paper trail that reduces disputes at invoice time.

Billable Time & Expenses

Capture employee and subcontractor time against jobs and mark expenses billable, then flow them onto invoices automatically. Nothing reimbursable slips through unbilled, and labor cost lands on the job where it belongs for accurate profitability.

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Committed Costs & Purchase Orders

Issue purchase orders and subcontractor commitments against a job so you can see committed costs — money already promised — alongside what’s been spent. That forward view keeps jobs from quietly blowing the budget on costs not yet invoiced.

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Powerful Job Cost Reports

Run job profitability, cost-to-complete, estimate-versus-actual, unbilled costs, and work-in-progress reports. More than 200 built-in reports — especially in the Contractor edition — give you the numbers your team, your accountant, and your bonding company expect.

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Progress Invoicing

Bill jobs by percentage complete, by milestone, or against an estimate, converting estimates to invoices without re-entering data. Billing stays tied to the job, so what you invoice and what you’ve costed always line up.

Why it matters

What Job Costing Does for Your Business

Margin lives at the job level — job costing is how you protect it.

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See Real Job Profit

Know which jobs, clients, and types of work actually make money — so you pursue more of the profitable work and reprice or decline the rest.

Catch Overruns Early

Real-time budget-versus-actual flags a job going over while it’s still in progress, giving you a chance to correct course before the margin is gone.

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Bill Everything You Should

Billable time and expense tracking makes sure reimbursable costs and change orders actually reach the invoice instead of eroding profit.

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Bid More Accurately

A history of estimate-versus-actual on past jobs tells you what work really costs, so your next bid is priced on data instead of hope.

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WIP & Bonding Ready

Work-in-progress and cost-to-complete reports give banks and bonding companies the schedules they require, supporting financing and larger contracts.

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One Integrated System

Costs, billing, payroll, and reporting all share the same job data, so your job costs and your financials always agree — no separate spreadsheets to reconcile.

Which editions include job costing? Job costing is part of every QuickBooks Enterprise edition — Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond. It goes deepest in the Contractor industry edition, which adds phases, change order management, and construction-specific reports like job costs by vendor and cost-to-complete. If projects are central to your business, the Contractor edition is worth a look. Our team will help you choose the right fit before you buy.
QuickBooks Enterprise pricing

QuickBooks Enterprise Cost — Up to 20% Off MSRP

Job costing is included in every edition below. Single user, annual billing — additional users licensed separately.

Edition Job Costing CPAWarehouse Price You Save
Silver ✓ Included $1,498/yr $375
Gold ✓ Included $1,768/yr $442
Platinum ★ Most Popular ✓ Included $2,174/yr $543
Diamond ✓ Included Up to 20% off

Prices shown are for 1 user, billed annually. Additional users licensed separately. Use our price configurator to see your exact cost.

Why CPAWarehouse

Why Buy QuickBooks Enterprise from CPAWarehouse

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Authorized Intuit Reseller

Every purchase comes with official Intuit activation and full eligibility for Intuit support, Priority Circle, and all future updates. Your license is 100% genuine.

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Free Expert Help

Not sure which edition fits your projects? Our team helps you choose by phone or chat — no pressure, just straightforward advice.

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Transparent Pricing

See your exact price instantly by edition and user count — no quote requests, no sales calls required just to find out what it costs.

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60-Day Money-Back Guarantee

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Fast 24-Hour Delivery

Your license key and download link are delivered within 24 hours of purchase — no waiting for physical media or shipping delays.

Common questions answered

Frequently Asked Questions — QuickBooks Job Costing

QWhat is job costing in QuickBooks Enterprise?
Job costing is the practice of assigning every cost — labor, materials, subcontractors, and equipment — to the specific job it belongs to, then comparing those actual costs against your estimate. QuickBooks Enterprise tracks budget versus actual in real time and produces job profitability, cost-to-complete, and work-in-progress reports so you know the true profit of every project.
QWhich QuickBooks editions include job costing?
Job costing is included in every QuickBooks Enterprise edition — Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond. It is deepest in the Contractor industry edition, which adds phases, change order management, and construction-specific reports. It is not as robust in QuickBooks Online, and Pro and Premier offer only lighter job costing.
QCan it track labor, materials, and subcontractor costs?
Yes. You can assign employee and subcontractor time, material purchases, vendor bills, and equipment costs to a job. Every purchase order, bill, check, and timesheet can carry a job, so your job cost reports capture the full cost of the work, not just the obvious items.
QDoes it compare estimates to actual costs?
Yes. You build an estimate for each job and QuickBooks tracks actual costs against it in real time, showing budget-versus-actual as the work progresses. That lets you spot a job drifting over budget while there is still time to protect the margin.
QCan it handle change orders?
Yes — especially in the Contractor edition. Change orders are tracked separately from the original estimate with a clear cost and price impact, so job reports always reflect the current contract value and clients get a clean paper trail that reduces disputes.
QCan I allocate payroll to jobs?
Yes. With QuickBooks payroll (included in Gold and Platinum, or full-service Assisted Payroll in Diamond), you can allocate labor cost to the jobs employees worked on, so payroll flows into job costing and your profitability reflects true labor cost by project.
QDoes it produce cost-to-complete and WIP reports?
Yes. Enterprise includes job profitability, cost-to-complete, estimate-versus-actual, unbilled cost, and work-in-progress reports — the schedules banks and bonding companies typically require — with the most construction-specific options in the Contractor edition.
QHow is it different from job costing in Pro or Premier?
Pro and Premier offer basic job costing, but Enterprise goes much deeper — more users and capacity, 200+ reports, committed-cost tracking, and the Contractor edition’s phases, change orders, and construction reports. For project-driven businesses that have outgrown Premier, Enterprise provides far more control and insight.
Know the profit of every job

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