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Do you still sell Job Cost? Or, if not a salesperson, would you? Should we? Any better substitute for MAS (for smaller Job Costing companies, not JobOps). It seems like half of our prospects lately want Job Costing.

We still do however I always give the speech about exactly where Job Cost is in the Sage development cycle. Bottom line by parting words/message is: What you see is what you get. Don't buy this thinking Sage is going to put significant resources into improving it because I have not seen that on the roadmap and do not expect it to occur. That being said - most Job Cost users are pretty happy with it so long as it they realize the future development is limited

If you view the job cost module as simply a static data repository that you can run reports from for job profitability, then JC might be the ticket for you. Hard to say anything else about it. You can set up budgets by job code (though difficult to enter). It does integrate with AP, AR, PR, IM, SO and PO (though you can only integrate with WO or JC in PO). You can use VI to import information into it though this is more of a trial and error to make it work. You need the time card module if you want to post labor more frequently than your PR cycle. If end user would like dispatch, scheduling or any other ""standard"" needs that have developed since the 80's, then JC will be a disappointment. I think we all agree that if JC was just put into the business framework to allow customization and scripting, we could sell a lot more.

Thanks for the feedback - sounds like we're still selling, but with ""full disclosure."" I just wanted to see if that was the general consensus.

I do the same with any non-framework module and with MFG