We used to use Maxwell and while Sage is better in many ways, I think Maxwell did many things better for Job Cost. There was a "master" cost code list that was used to pull in your cost codes for that job when you were setting it up. This allowed us to modify the name of the cost code to add the subcontractor's name or re-use a typical code but change the name a little bit without having to create a whole new account number. If we did this every time we had a little different code or changed a sub, we would have a list of cost codes a mile long! Being able to modify the cost code name from a master list made our job summary report more helpful, since we could see the name of our subs on it. We were also able to memorize our cost codes because they were always the same even if the subcontractor changed for site work, for example, from job to job.

by: Kelly Z. | over a year ago | Project Management