Features/Budgets
Job budgets
Every job’s budget comes from its signed quotes, split into materials, subs, crew, fees and other. ECHOPS sets it next to what’s committed and paid, and projects the profit while the job runs.
How it works
Features
The signed quotes’ material, labor and fee costs, as they were saved, so the plan matches what you sold.
Materials, subs, crew, fees and other, each with its budget, committed, paid and left.
What the job owes and what’s already paid, side by side, from orders, labor sheets, crew hours and expenses.
Sold for, budgeted cost with the planned margin, cost so far with the share used, and projected profit against plan.
Every order line’s estimate from the quote next to what it really cost.
Add a signed change order’s cost as a budget line; its number and title become the label.
The quotes’ cost split by trade, with job-wide costs on a line of their own.
A cost type over budget, a cost with no budget, a signed change order with no cost yet, or no budget at all.
Profit per job shows each job’s budget, and opens it in one click.
Who uses it
See each job’s projected profit and margin against plan while there’s still time to act on it.
Owners choose who opens Reports. The people they pick track what’s committed on their jobs against the budget.
Records orders, sub payments and expenses on each job, which fill in the actual costs as they happen.
See where a quote’s estimate missed, line by line, and price the next job closer.
What’s included
Try it first. The free trial is 14 days, with no credit card, and your workspace is ready in minutes. See every price on the pricing page.
Questions
Software that sets what a job should cost and tracks it against what it does cost. In ECHOPS, each job’s budget comes from its signed quotes and sits next to what’s committed and paid, by cost type, with the projected profit.
From the costs the signed quotes counted: materials, labor and fees, read as they were saved. Your crew’s part is its own line and the rest of the labor counts as the subs’. Owners and admins add budget lines for anything else.
Its price goes on the project’s contract total and it bills itself. Add its cost to the budget as a budget line; until you do, the job is flagged with a signed change order that has no cost yet.
Committed is what the job owes: materials bought, the labor sheets’ totals, your crew’s logged hours at their rates and expenses filed on the job. Paid is what has gone out: materials marked paid, sub payments paid, expenses and the crew’s logged time.
While a job runs, each cost type counts at its budget, or at what’s committed once that’s more. A finished job counts what it cost. The projected profit is what the job sold for less that, with the margin shown against plan.
The people who open Reports: owners, admins and the people or departments an owner picks. Nobody else sees the Budget tab.
Budgets are where job costing starts. The Budget tab is one job’s plan against its costs; profit per job lines up every job with its budget, margin and missing numbers. See our job costing software.
Yes, once each person’s rate is set: Labor → Crews & rates, or Payroll on Company. Logged hours then count at those rates in committed and paid.
Budgets are in every ECHOPS plan: Solo $149/mo with 3 users, Crew $299/mo with 8 and Company $599/mo with 20. With our special price, your first two months are $49, $59 or $69 a month, then the regular price; spots are limited. Try it free for 14 days with no credit card.
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