Exact Online vs JobCost.com

Exact Online is a cloud-delivered package for accounting and business operations, with accounting and CRM included across its products. Online accounting provides bank feeds and invoicing, while Time & Billing includes time tracking, invoicing, and CRM. Industry solutions are available for manufacturing, wholesale, and professional services. Wholesale offerings list order, relation, and stock management; a listed manufacturing plan includes calculation, planning, and production. The service also includes inventory and order management, and users can work together online. The accountancy solution supports administration management with clients. Exact says around 675,000 companies use Exact Online and that 2,000 specialists are ready to help. Packages are priced monthly and exclude VAT; payments, including extensions, are made by direct debit. The pricing note says From £25/mo, while the listed Accountancy Professional plan costs £91 a month. There is no free plan, and the free trial's duration and feature limits are unstated.

JobCost.com is an integrated job cost management and accounting system designed for construction and service companies. It can be installed in-house or in the cloud, and its single-entry processing requires source documents to be entered once. Modules include accounts receivable, accounts payable, job cost, cash management, general ledger, equipment, billing, payroll, and purchase orders. Job costing tracks phases, estimates, and change orders, with customizable analysis and balance reports. Mobile Resource Manager schedules and dispatches work and monitors field progress in real time. The Field App keeps job data available out of signal range and synchronizes updates when data or Wi-Fi returns. Time cards support regular, overtime, and double-time hours assigned to job and phase codes; field expenses can also be assigned to those codes. The system supports multiple companies, workstations, and bank accounts, and runs on PCs and Microsoft Networks. Pricing is available on request. Job Cost Inc provides personalized training and telephone support; the Mobile Resource Manager help site does not cover custom programming or features.