Job costing software by SmartTrade is the affordable solution for service businesses and contractors, such as electricians, plumbers and gas fitters. SmartTrade provides quick and accurate costing and estimating, particularly when coupled with electronic price books downloaded from suppliers.

Users equipped with the optional mobile version of SmartTrade (SmartTrade Mobile®) can create quotes and estimates and record the customer’s acceptance on site – sign the customer up before the competitors get a look in.

SmartTrade is not suitable for businesses that require integrated costing and project management or use quantity surveying.

The benefits of using SmartTrade for costing include:

• Prepare quotes and estimates quickly – respond promptly and professionally to customer inquiries.
• Tender for more work – the more quotes and estimates, generally the more work you win.
• Ensure that costings use up-to-date prices from suppliers. – avoid getting caught by out-of-date prices.
• Cut paperwork – generate your job sheet directly from your costing.

SmartTrade’s costing functionality and features include:

• Creating quotes and estimates.
• Using template jobs or duplicate existing jobs to speed up the costing process.
• Entering costing items from a user created database of frequently used items, or direct from imported supplier price books, or as one-off items.
• Creating kitsets (assemblies).
• Pricing using cost plus, trade plus or minus, or fixed sell prices.
• Setting the default pricing basis for costings at the client or job level, and if required edit at the individual line item level.
• Subtotalling items in the costing.
• Inserting and formatting text in the costing, allowing narratives to be included.
• Tracking profitability and margin by job and line item.
• Entering supplier quote references where special prices have been obtained, avoiding price disputes later.
• Selecting the amount of detail to be shown in the quote or estimate.
• Setting an expiry date for the quote or estimate.
• Exporting costings to spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.
• Creating a job sheet with a single click, once the quote or estimate has been accepted.

SmartTrade provides a practical and easy to use costing solution, and for many businesses is a very good choice for job costing software.

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