Category: Knowledge Base
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4 Tips for setting job costing goals for the new year
Starting out the new year is a great time to plan ahead and set new year goals for your business. Depending on what you’re hoping to achieve, sitting down with your management team, business advisors, or consultant may be a good idea. Whatever your goals or methods, here are a few tips for creating strong…
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3 more reasons why job costing & invoicing need to happen together
Keeping your invoices and job tracking together helps you get paid more easily for the work you’ve done. Because completing the work and invoicing go hand in hand, keeping them on the same platform makes sense. To drill down further on why keeping job costing and invoicing together could be beneficial, we’ve pulled together a…
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Job Costing Software is not one size fits all: identifying your unique industry needs.
Guest blog in collaboration with Laurus Bookkeeping Why you should identify your job costing needs Every business is different, and so are its job costing needs. Ignoring the factors that make your business unique in the search for easy “one-size-fits-all” solutions could result in missing out on huge benefits that other options could offer. Identifying…
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4 Ways Job Tracking Software Is Good For Team Morale
In a recent blog, we covered the importance of building a happy team and how you can do it. You can use a lot of the features in job tracking software like WorkGuru to help boost the happiness of your team. Read previous article: How to keep manufacturing teams happy & why it’s important In…
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3 Reasons Job Costing & Invoicing Should Happen Together
Do you use the same tools to manage your job costing and invoicing? When you have software that treats business functions as separate processes there could be opportunities you’re missing out on. When you think of features as part of the same process in your business then you can use them to your advantage. That’s…
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Xero’s 2022 Predictions & What They Mean For Fabricators
Xero has released their new insights for 2022, so we’ve taken the top predictions to explain what they might mean for fabrication businesses heading into 2022. The past few years have seen massive changes, but one thing that has stayed consistent from their 2021 predictions is the improvement of technology to help small businesses. It…
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Make Moving to New System Simple With These 4 Tips
Getting started with any new system can feel like an uphill battle, but with the right tools, you can save yourself the headache. If you’re moving from a pen and paper to software or upgrading to bigger and better tools, here are a few things you can do to make implementation easier. Make it bite-sized While…
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Choose the right project management tools with 4 secrets
Finding the right project management tools helps your business grow & generate incredible results. Sustainable growth is difficult if not impossible without a tool that will scale with your business. Changing your project management system can also mean potentially long periods of decision making, testing, switching and adapting ahead of you, so it is crucial…
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Find Out How Much Free Spreadsheet Templates Really Cost
When your business is growing, looking for ways to support it’s growth is essential to keep the momentum going. Looking for cheap or free ways is always tempting, but when it comes to choosing free spreadsheets over proper project management and job costing options, it could cost your business more than you realise. 5 Ways…
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Top 4 ways to avoid “scope creep” in your projects
Do you find your projects nearly always go over time, over budget or cost you more than you thought they would? Scope creep can be one of the biggest killers of project profitability. What is scope creep? According to the dictionary, Scope creep is “uncontrolled growth in the scope or requirements of a project”. But…
