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What QuickBooks Online Can and CANNOT practise with Job Costing / Project Tracking

Hector Garcia
September 2, 2020

UPDATED 11/08/2021

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What QuickBooks Online Plus or Advanced Can do with Job Costing / Projection Tracking:

Create Projects that belong to a Customer or Sub-customer
Toggle Projects as In-Progress/Completed/Canceled to be able to filter
Assign expense transactions (such as Bills, Checks, and Expenses – such as for debit/credit card transactions) to a item Client, Sub-Customer, and/or Project
Assign a fully burdened price rate including: Wages, Employer Taxes, Worker's Comp, and Overhead to each employee to exist able to track the estimated labor costs for a project using Time sheets. Note: this feature ONLY works if you do NOT run Payroll Within QuickBooks
If you run payroll within QuickBooks, the gross wages and taxes can be assigned to projects as long as the timesheet (with time assigned to projects) is created before running payroll. Annotation: you lot cannot add additional burdened costs such every bit Worker'south Comp, Health Insurance, Overhead, etc.. to the project when running payroll through QuickBooks
Product a Turn a profit and Loss Report past Project
Add notes to a projection
Assign an estimated hourly price to a vendor and a billable rate
Generate a Transactions List report for a specific project
Generate a fourth dimension activeness report for a specific project
Generate an Unbilled Fourth dimension and Expenses study for a specific project
Generate an estimates time price by employee or vendor for a specific project

What QuickBooks Online Plus or Advanced CANNOT do with Job Costing / Projection Tracking:

You cannot create an Estimate with estimated item toll (to summate projected margin in a Project)*
You cannot rail Project's of import dates, such as showtime appointment, estimated completion appointment, actual completion date, etc*
You cannot track or organize projects by Task Type*
Yous cannot create a Project job Condition report *
You cannot generate commonly needed reports such as Estimates vs. Actuals or Job Progress Percentage reports *
You lot cannot create a WIP Report or a committed costs written report **

* All these features are bachelor in QuickBooks Desktop (All versions)
** These features are available in QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

The following cannot be washed by either QuickBooks Desktop or QuickBooks Online, and y'all might need a 3rd party app similar KNOWIFY to reach

AIA-mode billing
Setup and simple consequent maintenance/warranty piece of work to a project
Manage/track job dispatching or scheduling
Create notifications or special proactive dashboard/reports indicating when a projection is out of budget or getting close to it

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This video explains how Chore Costing / Projects for QuickBooks Online in-depth, recorded in Apr 2019, just is 100% relevant still, as these features have not changed