How to set and manage team permissions on your projects
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So, a common question we are asked by customers is how do I set permission sets that make sense to roles in my company?
Why you shouldn’t use PO Books on site
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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 on the project linked up to any thinking around where the costs are being tracked.
Reporting Profitability per Project
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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 our profitability per project. This comes down to having simple access to the data that you need when you need it and that comes down to the project structure. Once […]
How To Track Plant Costs Against Projects
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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 or the cost that it requires to the project or to the company.
How To Track Construction Labour Costs At The Project Level
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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 is actually costing us on the project.
How To Track Project Specific Material Costs in Construction
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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 quoted from the supplier and then take that information straight from the invoice as it comes in.
How to 3-Way Match Project Invoices in Sage 50
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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 costs.
Linking Your Site Team’s Project Costs to Sage 50
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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 manage project costs.
Connecting Project Costs to Sage 50
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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
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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 it all.