#39885 - 01/16/14 05:47 AM
Re: Job Cost Software??
[Re: Michael_Arbeau]
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Adagio God
Registered: 03/10/02
Posts: 4511
Loc: Wynnewood, PA
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Hi Michael
I am a reseller/consultant, with many construction clients using Adagio JobCost. In fact, my father was a home builder (about 100 homes a year) and he was my first "client", so it's a specialty of mine. It works nicely.
What it doesn't do well is integrate with an estimating system, or print AIA bills (but you are in Canada so maybe that doesn't matter). What it does particularly well, in conjunction with Adagio PurchaseOrders, is warn you if you try to enter an invoice that causes the actual to exceed contract. It also handles integration to the GL very well, whether you want to recognize revenue as a percent of completion or once a job is fully complete. The standard reports aren't very good, but the data itself is well structured, so I use Adagio GridView to create reports that are exactly what my clients want.
Steve
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#39892 - 01/16/14 07:51 AM
Re: Job Cost Software??
[Re: Michael_Arbeau]
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Waterloo Guy
Registered: 04/04/06
Posts: 1738
Loc: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Hi, We concur with Steve. We also have many clients using Adagio Job Cost for general contacting (commercial) and domestic construction, Job Shop manufacturing, and landscaping maintenance. Job Cost can really work well but the proper configuration scares many off from a really good solution, unfortunately.
There are multiple ways to configure and we have seen numerous bad configurations, so make sure that your consultant knows how to configure properly. And don't be scared off by comments that it doesn't work, because in responding to sites that say it doesn't work, it's almost always a configuration issue.
The reports have room for improvement, the estimating simply records estimate values instead of creating an estimate document, and change order control has more room for improvements, but the data stored in the data base, is readily accessible and very useful for Gridview and Crystal Reports.
You might also consider our Link2JobCost Add-On as an efficient solution to manage your WIP, which is usually an issue in most Job Cost sites.
If you go with Job Cost, you must consider Adagio Purchase Orders, Gridview and possibly Crystal reports for Adagio. If you don't get PO's and GV, then you will feel shortchanged with your solution. It's that important.
Best, Brian
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#52532 - 02/02/17 08:28 AM
Re: Job Cost Software??
[Re: Michael_Arbeau]
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Stranger
Registered: 01/07/17
Posts: 3
Loc: France
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Hello Michael, We are also in real estate business. We use both Adagio and online bookkeeping soft Zipbooks. We use both of them at a time. Its like two accountant for same business. Accounting in real estate business is really crucial and we want to be flawless.
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#67333 - 12/01/21 09:34 PM
Re: Job Cost Software??
[Re: Douglas Dickie]
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Stranger
Registered: 12/01/21
Posts: 1
Loc: United States
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Hi Michael, We are also in a real estate firm. We utilize both Adagio and cloud-based free accounting software Akounto. We utilize the two of them at a time. I am familiar with Adagio when I was working. But with this option, it does seem expensive.
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