I do not think you understand what is being asked here. The job costing needed is different than what you have in your current system. We need job costing like there is in QuickBooks Desktop. It allows you to create a job and then while you create an invoice, PO, etc., you can apply it to that job. We do not need to track time or tasks associated with projects. Once the job is completed, you can run a profit and loss on that job. I would be happy to show anyone, via screen share, how QuickBooks does it.

Using the Project Module is a "Project" of its own. The projects module is NOT job costing...the projects module is set up for larger scale projects being done by office workers like computer programming...

We are looking for a Job Module that would be set up for a job shop, like a machine shop, small manufacturing, service/repair work...

Jobs need to be able to be quickly started from an estimate or sales order and as simple as them to start, not a project.

Time tracking needs to be able to be done from a simple "time clock" type screen by hourly, shop, or field employees....(enter job order number, and clock in...then clock out when done)

Create a PO and have an option to link a line item on the PO so it is "charged" to a specific job order.

Not like the project module....we do not all have employees sitting at desks with computers....and it is not simple/quick enough to work for job orders.

I am surprised that this simple level of job costing/module has not been done by any of these accounting software programs. I understand that if we want complex job shop software we can use other software, but a simple job costing app/module should not be that hard based on what I can see Zoho has the ability to create.

Job Costing is different than the project module. I do not believe anyone is fully understanding the differences between "projects" and job costing. It would be GREAT if Zoho could get to a point of understanding and adding a basic job costing module that could:

1) create Job/Work Orders from Estimates or Sales Orders
2) collect/track Labor Hours to the Job Orders (not like a lawyer, office worker, "project" time collecting...like true time punching on and off of jobs in a shop or field service work)
3) ability to create PO's and charge required materials line items to Job orders and receive them (understand that not all purchased items are not being sold as-is to a customer, they are being used in the job)
4) ability to add miscellaneous and supply costs to the Job orders
5) Create a shipper/packing slip for the Job line items (with the ability to partial ship)
6) Notify that those line items are ready for invoice
7) Create Job Cost overview report that would report total labor hours/costs, total purchases costs, total misc/other costs.

This would be AWESOME!

I would switch to Zoho if this feature were added.

This would be easily achieved by adding the ability to add a tag to the chart of accounts items.

We switched from Books to Quickbooks specifically for that reason - it was business critical for us.

Completely agree, this would be a unique feature to add to an online accounting software and one that we rely on.

This is real important for us