Project Cost Solutions
Are you looking for more cost control over your construction projects without the risk?
Take a look at our videos below and avoid costly overruns, stay on budget and have more success on your project construction costs
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Watch a short product tour video to see how LiveCosts can bring new tools and efficiences to your construction accounting workflow.Most Recent Videos
Why you shouldn’t use PO Books on site
So, PO books on site are a bad idea. Why? Because we don’t have a connection point between where the costs are being committed to
Reporting Profitability per Project
A common question for us from customers and clients would be how to achieve profitability per project or how to get a real-time view of
How To Track Plant Costs Against Projects
What we need to do is set up a simple database where we can actually see these listed out in terms of its ownership type
How To Track Construction Labour Costs At The Project Level
Tracking labour costs at phase level can be a problem when it comes to us getting an accurate reading of exactly how much our labour
How To Track Project Specific Material Costs in Construction
When it comes to tracking project-specific material prices, this can be a problem because generally we don’t have a way to capture the initial cost
How to 3-Way Match Project Invoices in Sage 50
When tracking your project costs in Sage 50, the first thing we must understand is that Sage 50 was never designed to manage construction project
Linking Your Site Team’s Project Costs to Sage 50
When linking your site team into your project costs and Sage 50, the first thing to understand is that Sage 50 was not designed to
Connecting Project Costs to Sage 50
Sage 50 is a great accounting product, but what it doesn’t do very well is manage project costs.
How To Track Multiple Deliveries Against A Single Purchase Order
When you’re trapped under a pile of invoices, you need a system that’s able to take in multiple deliveries, multiple invoices, and make sense of
How To Manage Team Permissions Inside Construction Project Tracking Software
How to manage user permissions in construction project management software.
Raising Construction Purchase Orders In An Accounting Software
If you’re using an accounting system or software that isn’t construction-specific – Xero, Sage, or Quickbooks – then this video is for you.
Tracking Material Orders Made From Site
How to set up a data stream of material orders from site.
Manually Inputting Invoices or Receipts Against Projects
Save your company significant time and expense by automating your invoices and receipts.
Revenue Versus Costs in Xero
The trouble with tracking revenue vs costs in #xero is that Xero was just never designed for construction projects.
Losing 5% of Your Revenue to Unauthorised Invoices
In this episode of Project Cost Solutions, we explore how you can use LiveCosts to prevent paying out on bad invoices on the blind.
Not Collecting Proof of Delivery
One of the biggest problems that hits construction accounting is not tracking what’s actually been delivered to the construction site.
Finding Cost Overruns When It’s Too Late
There’s nothing worse than doing your post-mortem on a construction project to realise there’s been damage done to your budget, and now it’s too late
Late Subcontractor Invoices
In this episode of Project Cost Solutions, we cover how to manage subcontractor invoices in LiveCosts, and how to deal when those #invoices come