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05 Back Office · Job Costing

See where every job stands — while it's still running.

Every PO and vendor bill lands on the budget line it belongs to, and every hour on the clock lands on the job. You see a line running hot while there's still time to fix it — not after the job closes.

Job costing for a medical office building: material budget, committed, invoiced, paid and remaining, with labor budget against actual hours

Most subs find out what a job made after it's over.

Bills sit in a pile until someone codes them. Hours live in a timesheet app. The budget is a spreadsheet nobody has opened since the bid. By the time the numbers meet, the money is spent and the crew has moved on.

Here they're one set of numbers. The budget comes from the bid, POs commit against it, bills land on it and the time clock costs the labor — so job costing isn't a report someone builds. It's what the job looks like right now.

Every line of the budget, with the money against it.

Budget, committed, invoiced, paid and remaining for every material and cost line — with spending from before you switched carried in, so remaining is real from day one.

  • Committed from POs, invoiced from bills, paid from payments
  • Labor cost from the time clock beside it
  • Reallocate between lines with an approval trail
A job's budget by line: budget, committed, invoiced, paid and remaining

Bills that match their PO before anyone pays them.

Every vendor bill is checked against the PO it came from, line by line, and lands on the job's budget the moment it's entered. Approve and pay from the same list — and know exactly what's left to come on every PO.

  • Bills linked to their PO, with what's still committed
  • Scan an invoice and the lines are read for you
  • Approve, pay and record the reference in one place
Vendor bills on a job, each linked to its PO, with pending, approved and paid statuses

Job costing as a byproduct of the work.

Nobody re-tags anything at month-end. The PO, the bill and the punch already know which job they belong to.

01

Committed the moment a PO goes out

Issue a PO and the money shows as committed against the job's budget before the bill arrives. You see what's spoken for, not just what's been paid.

02

Bills read for you

Scan a vendor bill and its lines are read, matched to the PO it came from and put on the job's budget. Your office reviews the exceptions instead of typing line items.

03

Labor from the time clock

Approved hours land on the job they were worked on, beside the labor budget. Payroll runs export for Gusto, ADP or your provider — no timesheets to key.

04

Change orders move the budget

Approve a change order and its money is added to the job's budget, so remaining reflects the contract you're actually building.

05

Reallocate with a paper trail

When one line runs hot and another runs cool, move the money with a request and an approval. Every change stays on record — no quiet edits to the budget.

06

Real from day one

Bringing in a job that's already running? Enter what's been spent so far, and remaining isn't overstated by everything that happened before you switched.

This is where the numbers come home.

Estimating set the budget. Construction Mgmt grew it with change orders. The field app fed labor cost. Job costing is where it all meets the actual: what's committed, what's billed, what's paid and what's left. Every day, not month-end.

01Take-Off
02Estimating
03CRM
04Construction Mgmt
05Job Costing
06Field App
← From Estimating

Bid line items become budget targets. Every actual cost lands against an estimate line so variance analysis is automatic.

← From the Field App

Approved hours become labor cost on the job they were worked on. Payroll runs export the gross wages.

← From Construction Mgmt

Approved change orders add to the budget, so remaining tracks the contract as it changes.

Who actually uses it.

Role 01

Project Managers

Your budget, your POs and your crew's hours on one screen, for every job you run. Move money between lines without a spreadsheet and an email chain.

Role 02

Owners

How every job is tracking against its budget, today — not what the bid said, and not what the bookkeeper reports next month.

Role 03

Office & Bookkeepers

Bills arrive matched to their PO and entered against the job. You review the exceptions instead of chasing PMs for job numbers.

Common questions.

No. Job costing runs on the work itself — budgets, POs, vendor bills and hours — so you can keep your books where they are and still see where every job stands.

From your estimate when you win the bid in Leviathan Built, or from your own numbers when you bring in a job that's already running. Either way it's one line per material or cost item, each with an optional cost code.

Yes. Vendor bills are read and matched to their PO. Approval still happens with a person in the loop — scanning speeds up the data entry, not the decision.

From the field app's time clock. Approved hours land on the job they were worked on, next to the job's labor budget. Nobody re-keys a timesheet.

Run one of your jobs through it.

Start a free trial and try it on a live job, or book a 30-minute consultation and we'll walk through how a real job of yours would look — budget, POs, bills and hours — using your actual numbers.