Enter your figures for Material, Labor, hours, and Expenses. You can create estimates at the overall Job level or for each job task, phase, and milestone. Manage your Job change orders to properly document and bill customers. Optional Microsoft Dynamics CRM quotation integration to Alert Jobs and job costing software provides the streamlined process you are looking for.

Enter your initial Job budgets and ongoing Job change estimates. As you enter resource timesheets, consume expenses, materials, and services let Alert job costing software track and monitor your progress. Alert job tracking software will track percentage completion, report earned revenue generated, show costs incurred, and WIP hours consumed.

Alert job costing software allows you to search for the right resource skills, certificates, and availability. Project managers can drag and drop job tasks for crews or individuals that automatically create calendar entries that are graphical visibility to everyone. Alert's optional Microsoft Exchange support allows for corporate communications as well as individual PDA mobility.

Alert job costing software has optional integration designed for QuickBooks and Microsoft Dynamics GP accounting systems. Alert Job Cost integrates with the powerful accounting functionality of Microsoft Dynamics and gives project managers the ability to proactively manage labor, materials, equipment, subcontractors and other cost categories. Integrated customer billing and accounts receivable, contract administration, payroll, budgeting and reporting.

Time & Expenses

We know time and expense reporting are important sources for billing and payroll, so they need to be accessible. We make it easy for resources to report progress and effort through web portals, Outlook integration, and PDA mobility support.

Can data be collected and maintained as close to its source as feasibly possible to improve accuracy with less administrative effort? Yes, with Alert software you are able to;

• Web Portals -Set up Project Manager, Crew, Contractor, and Customer portals - 24x7 web based accessibility
• Microsoft SharePoint- Incorporate Alert portals within your corporate Microsoft SharePoint portal
• Microsoft Outlook Client - Alert Software Outlook add-in forms allows time, expense, and material entry
• Microsoft Exchange Support - Communicate scheduled appointments directly from Alert software. Need to add or edit an appointment? Alert software's exchange support can do that too!
• Mobility - Enter your time, expense, and materials through your Mobile PDA. Update job progress and capture signatures for completions.

Our configurable work time, overtime, approval, and expense reporting policies allow organizations to effectively collect, manage and track time and expenses based on their unique requirements.

Billing & Revenue Recognition

Alert's Job cost software and Job Cost billing systems provides milestone, time and materials, progress billing, and hold back administration. We covered it all for you. For those using accrual accounting, revenue is recorded when it is earned and realized, regardless of when the customer is invoiced. Similarly, expenses are matched regardless of when they are they are actually paid. That's why in Alert Job Costing; revenues, costs, and gross profit can be recognized each period based on the percentage of completion. We track and provide reporting to support earned revenue and cost accruals.

Optional financial integration to QuickBooks and Microsoft Dynamics provides the enterprise with complete business system.

Reporting

Alert's Job cost software tracks all actual and budget activity. Easily monitor revenue, expenses, variances and profitability. Not only does job costing act as a measure of your success, the historical data that it provides gives you a basis for more accurate estimating of similar jobs that you get in the future. Alert software is 100% web based, so accessibility is 24 hours a day.

Project managers to track actual and budget activity by project, phase, or in further detail and easily track revenue, expenses and profitability. The system allows for business alerts to proactively notify project managers of due dates and job monitoring requirements.

Alert Project infrastructure provides the data sources to confidently delivery project analysis and job cost reporting whether it's different level of management or reporting back to your customers.

Service & Dispatch

Alert software advanced field service management system provides ongoing work order management, contract administration, maintenance schedules and Job change order management.