JobCost.com vs Katana

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.

Katana is web-based inventory and order management software with barcode scanning, purchase orders, sales orders and stock alerts. Its permanent Free tier costs nothing, requires no credit card and has no expiry date. Free includes 30 SKUs, unlimited users, unlimited integrations and unlimited inventory locations. Core starts at $299 a month, scales with usage and add-ons, and includes unlimited SKUs, users and integrations with one inventory location. Advantage has no listed price and offers custom integrations, custom dashboards and reports, custom automations and workflows, a dedicated Solutions Engineer, SLA-backed maintenance and regular CSM check-ins. Katana is available on the web, with no mobile apps listed. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. The tiers create a clear capacity trade-off: Free allows unlimited inventory locations but limits SKUs to 30, while Core removes the SKU limit and provides one location.