JobCost.com vs Odoo CRM

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.

Odoo CRM helps teams track sales opportunities, plan follow-ups and forecast sales through a Kanban pipeline. Leads can come from email, VoIP calls, social reactions, website visitors, event attendees and support tickets; predictive criteria including past performance estimate their likelihood of success. Users can automate lead creation, team assignment and scheduled activities. Communication channels include email, live chat, SMS and VoIP. CRM reporting includes lead and opportunity analysis, cohort analysis, dashboards and sales KPIs. Odoo Calendar can sync with Google Calendar and Outlook, and opportunity records can be used to create meetings. The Outlook plugin can create opportunities from an email panel in desktop or web Outlook. One App Free costs nothing for one app with unlimited users. Standard costs $24.90 a month billed yearly and the page also shows US$ 31.10 per user per month. Custom costs $49 a month billed yearly and also shows US$ 61.00 per user per month; Odoo.sh hosting costs extra. Odoo is open source, and its Custom plan includes external API access.