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UK Job costing system for surveyors and consulting engineers

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Amber-JCS overview

What is Amber-JCS?

Amber-JCS is a UK job costing system for small and medium-sized surveyors and consulting engineers.

It's suitable for those service companies which need to track costs on their projects, and/or see job profitability and/or fully invoice their clients.

The core system covers timesheets, expenses, purchases, invoicing and reporting while other features if required include quotes, contact management, and email filing.

Optionally, Amber-JCS can link to Accounting systems such as Sage, and to Microsoft Outlook.

The core process is as follows:-

Enter your timesheets (or expenses) against a job and job task (E.g. Job '1010' for Job Task 'Survey'). At the end of a period, generate a draft sales invoice for that job, from the new timesheets. Overwrite the calculated fee with a fixed fee if required, allocate the next invoice number, and send the invoice. The Send option will pop up an Outlook email using a template message, and the pdf invoice will be attached.

Key benefits of using Amber-JCS

Benefits include:-
Visibility on job profit, leading to a deeper understanding of the job financials of your business. See job profit by job, by task or by staff.
Better pricing on future jobs, by understanding profit on past jobs
Streamlining, leading to simplicity, significant time-savings and data accuracy. Spreadsheet solutions work but can become increasingly cumbersome over time. with much double-entry of the same information. A database solution such as Amber-JCS has a great many advantages over spreadsheets.
Better cost control, with quick information enabling early corrective action
Central contact database, for clients. suppliers and other contacts. You and your team can quickly and easily see what contacts were related to which jobs

Starting price

10per user /
per month

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Amber-JCS's features

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Access controls/permissions
Accounting
Accounting integration
Approval process control
Approval workflow
Billable & non-billable hours
Billable items tracking
Billing & invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Calendar management
Contact database
Cost-to-Completion tracking
CRM
Customizable invoices
Customizable reports
Data import/export
Document management
Document storage
Email management
Employee database
Employee management
Employee scheduling
Expense tracking
Financial management
Forecasting
Hourly billing
Invoice creation
Invoice history
Invoice management
Invoice processing
Job management
Job tracking
Leave tracking
Multiple billing rates
Offline time tracking
Online invoicing
Online time tracking
Overrun Reporting
Overtime calculation
Percent-Complete tracking
Project billing
Project management
Project time tracking
Project tracking
Projections
Purchase order management
Quotes/Estimates
Real-Time data
Real-Time reporting
Real-Time updates
Recurring/Subscription billing
Reimbursement management
Reporting & statistics
Reporting/Analytics
Resource allocation & planning
Summary Reports
Task management
Task scheduling
Third-Party integrations
Time & expense tracking
Time tracking
Time tracking by client
Time tracking by project
Timer
Timesheet management
Vacation/Leave tracking

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Amber-JCS support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Phone Support
Email/Help Desk

Training options

In Person
Documentation
Live Online
Videos

Amber-JCS FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Amber-JCS offer?

Amber-JCS has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: £10.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of Amber-JCS?

Amber-JCS has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Small Business


Q. What languages does Amber-JCS support?

Amber-JCS supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Amber-JCS support mobile devices?

Amber-JCS supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone


Q. Does Amber-JCS offer an API?

No, Amber-JCS does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Amber-JCS offer?

Amber-JCS offers the following support options:
Phone Support, Email/Help Desk

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