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JobBOSS²
Formerly E2 Shop

Overview

What is JobBOSS²?

JobBOSS² is the evolution of E2 Shop with the addition of features of the JobBOSS manufacturing software, since the acquisition of E2 Shop's developer Shoptech Industrial Software by ECI Software Solutions in 2020.

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Recent Reviews

New JobBOSS² User

10 out of 10
April 02, 2024
Incentivized
We currently operating all manufacturing operations out of JobBOSS². We use JobBOSS² for order entry and control, quality control, load …
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Choose JobBOSS2

10 out of 10
October 29, 2023
Incentivized
We use JobBOSS2 in all areas of our business, from accounting to inventory management to shop floor control. We were looking for a better …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Order entry (24)
    7.3
    73%
  • Inventory tracking (24)
    6.7
    67%
  • Pricing (23)
    6.5
    65%
  • Dashboards (22)
    6.2
    62%

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Pricing

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What is JobBOSS²?

JobBOSS² is the evolution of E2 Shop with the addition of features of the JobBOSS manufacturing software, since the acquisition of E2 Shop's developer Shoptech Industrial Software by ECI Software Solutions in 2020.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

3
Avg 7.2

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

4.9
Avg 7.3

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

7.3
Avg 8.1

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

6.3
Avg 7.0

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

6.7
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

6.9
Avg 7.9

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

4.8
Avg 7.8

Subledger and Financial Process

Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes

2.7
Avg 7.4

Project Financial Management

Project financial management solution including capabilities for project budgeting, cost control, billing and contract management.

9.4
Avg 7.6

Project Execution Management

Project execution management solution including capabilities for project scheduling, resource management, and team member task management.

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Grants Management

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Procurement

Procurement management solution with capabilities for sourcing, contracting, procure-to-pay and supplier management

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Risk Management

Risk management solution with capabilities for managing controls, assessing control effectiveness, certifying controls, and addressing deficiencies

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Avg 6.5

Logistics

Logistics solution with capabilities for transportation planning, transportation execution, trade compliance, customs management, warehouse management and warehouse workforce management.

4.3
Avg 6.9

Manufacturing

Manufacturing solution for managing manufacturing processes and costs.

6.8
Avg 7.5

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Planning solution with capabilities for planning, performance monitoring, change responses and execution.

6.6
Avg 7.2

Product Lifecycle Management

Product Lifecycle Management solution with capabilities for innovation management, product development

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Product Details

What is JobBOSS²?

JobBOSS² is the evolution of E2 Shop with the addition of features of the JobBOSS manufacturing software, since the acquisition of E2 Shop's developer Shoptech Industrial Software by ECI Software Solutions in 2020.

JobBOSS² Screenshots

Screenshot of the management interface for the daily demands of job shops and machine shopsScreenshot of analytics that provide real-time visibility into job profitability

JobBOSS² Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

JobBOSS² is the evolution of E2 Shop with the addition of features of the JobBOSS manufacturing software, since the acquisition of E2 Shop's developer Shoptech Industrial Software by ECI Software Solutions in 2020.

ProShop ERP, MIE Trak Pro, and Fulcrum Pro are common alternatives for JobBOSS².

Reviewers rate Project Costing highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of JobBOSS² are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Scheduling of jobs based on many different options
  • Easy Maintenance, no upgrades
  • Quoting is done well
  • Orders are processed in a timely manner
  • Inventory management
  • Provide Support with more than an email contact or call back abilities, phone extensions to get direct to the support person assisting.
  • Require support to follow up even when a call has run over on time - let the closed call be decided by the customer.
  • Data Collection could use an easier way for the operator to access the documents, for example, setup or inspection paperwork
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Estimating is great once you learn how to use it, and it makes repeat estimates easier than ever.
  • Time tracking is amazing for us. It has taken some time to figure out exactly how we want to use the tracking parts, but it's only because it has multiple ways to do the same thing and finding out what works best for us took some time.
  • Billing and Purchasing are a breeze. The full package is worth the money to fully integrate the entire business into JobBOSS² since it can handle it all.
  • Automated reporting would be great. We can build custom reports, but have to do automated tasks entirely different and having the option to send multiple reports on schedule would be great.
  • Custom reports and automated tasks through knowledge sync are incredibly complex to setup. I am very computer savvy with sql database experience and the way that all works is highly convoluted whether by design or necessity that is my biggest gripe.
  • More customization options to better have this fit our business instead of generically a manufacturing business. For example, if I have a customer that wants price breakouts on individual parts, but wants them as part of a lump order, I cannot lump two estimates together and remove setup, I have re-create multiple estimates. Or, more specifications for time/labor, like weekends are always OT, not the 2 option only system it is now. I have a ton of ideas but they may be more specific to our shop, like selling sheets by the square foot, while also allowing me to set a markup rate rather than a sell rate. I hate the sell rate system, everything is markup based and having it designed for sell price rather than markup on cost seems backwards. Shops that use this are not retailers so prices fluctuate and having to work around everything using sell price is a pain.
  • Allowing us to track gross profit rather than net profit would be great. I like seeing net profit, but the system of burden rate, avg labor rate, billing rate, etc etc is just another weird system making it hard. I assume this is because this is built for machine shops that run a machine at a price but even that seems weird because I enter a work center to run a part at xx price per hour and the ticket is created but needs to be scanned to track it's work, but a guy has to monitor it to ensure the ticket doesn't stay scanned too long even if the machine stops. It would be nice if I could make the software just calculate the cost regardless of whether someone scans the "cut" task for a cnc machine.
April 02, 2024

New JobBOSS² User

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Order Managment
  • Employee time Tracking
  • PO Generation
  • Invoice/Receiving
  • Accounting functions
  • Ordering on the time and attendance page
  • Quoting process
Cacey Obermark | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Multitudes of Standard Reports
  • Ability to Almost Completely Customize Reports & Forms
  • Inclusive Software from Quoting through Manufacturing to Invoicing
  • Return and Rework Tracking
  • Ability to "click-through" from module to module is somewhat quirky and not always do-able
  • Implementation process and initial learning is very independent, more assistance and direction from ECI would be appreciated.
  • Ability to set Product Code at Order level instead of Estimate level would be quite helpful
  • Ability to add WorkCode at Line Item Specification screen would be very useful
  • Ability to enter material quantities at decimal amounts instead of whole numbers. This is a huge disadvantage of JobBOSS²
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Real Time data
  • Email of Invoices and Purchase Orders.
  • Keeps Historical Data
  • Customized Reporting
  • Missing a description field for each Invoices and each Journal Entries
  • Material Requirement Report does not include the available stock on hand.
  • The decimal points rounding is not adjustable.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Inventory.
  • Job routings
  • Time tracking
  • quoting - limited functionality currently
  • costing of jobs and parts - there is very limited information on how their calculations work and limited customization of costing. Most of the job costing or margin reports are inaccurate. Costing is a black box with Jobboss2 that doesn't allow you to better understand how they are calculating nor the ability to tweak the variables of those calculations to align their reports and models with the way your organization costs and prices jobs.
  • Raw material inventory and resource tracking for jobs - we don't even use the raw material function because it's inflexible. When you quote raw material, oftentimes you ask for one size diameter of raw material...but the vendor may not have it and often the next best size instead. When/if this happens, you'd have to delete or re-add the raw material to jobboss2 and re-assign that size to every part that's used. You'd, in theory, have to have every possible size of raw material and every spec of raw material that you use in Jobboss2, and you'd still have to re-assign it all of the time to different parts when you couldn't find the ideal size of material. This is a huge gap.
  • Automatically logs you out while using the platform, even with only one tab open. We'll be actively using jobboss2, and even within a minute of login, you click on a module of jobboss2, and it will ask you to log in again. Very frustrating.
  • Inability to open multiple tabs in Jobboss2. We need to crossreference information all of the time, comparing inventory, last jobs routings & dates, and costs which we try to pull up multiple tabs in jobboss2, but it does not effectively allow you to do this. It's slightly possible, but oftentimes will log you out of your session as soon as you open a new tab.
  • Blanket orders and consignment - Jobboss2 is ineffective at allowing efficient tracking of blanket orders or parts on consignment. There's no functionality for consignment tracking of parts as you try to track replenishment buckets.
  • Customizable reports with more field and table selections - reports can be customized but only with the fields that Jobboss2 provides for that specific report. We need to link other tables from the database to be able to see the information that we need, and jobboss2 does not easily allow you to link a new table into reports to add additional fields that you want or need to see. For example, in Salesforce...you can pick specific tables that you want to link together and pull any field that you need. Jobboss2 only allows you to see the specific tables that they pre-built for reports. If you need another field that's missing on the report, you'd have to know SQL in order to add it vs. a user-friendly report builder that anyone non-technical would be able to use, which is standard in most other software platforms for ERP or CRM.
  • material/inventory forecasting to plan when you need the next job - this is incredibly limited. We typically look out for 2-12 months to plan when we'll need the next lot for a particular part. Jobboss2 material forecast will only let you look at the next 4 months as 4 columns and then it groups any months beyond that into one 5th column. You should be able to set a specific time horizon (i.e. from today to 12 months out and see the stock level and orders needed for each of those next 12 months. As a result, we still have to use manual spreadsheets to plan our production and scheduling jobs.
  • jobboss2 upcharges for most new features or modules that you want to add. For example, they've built reports that would be incredibly useful for the majority of their customers, but they charge to add one simple report because it's considered a customization.
October 29, 2023

Choose JobBOSS2

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Great reports.
  • Training and tech support.
  • Job process is laid out in a logical, accountable way.
  • Report designer could be more user-friendly.
  • Better explanation of month-end journal entries that are needed for financial reports.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Inventory Management
  • Job Costing/P&L Reports
  • Quality Control (NCRs & CA Tracking)
  • Estimating/Quoting
  • Data Collection
  • Editing forms or documents if needed is very difficult
  • Scheduling Whiteboard is not super user friendly and takes a lot of time to learn
  • Harder to setup for a Service Based Industry - But very possible
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer service and Technical Support respond quickly and work diligently to fix any issue I may run into so I can continue to work without any large delays.
  • I love how easy it is to open additional copies of JobBOSS² as I usually work in several places at once in the system and have anywhere from 3 to 5 open at a time.
  • All of the different areas of JobBOSS² that I use were incredibly easy to learn, and I love that everything you need to see or enter is on the same page without having to click on additional tabs to enter information.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Job Costing
  • Invoicing
  • Purchase order creation
  • CRM is bare bones and requires an external program to be more effective
  • Automatic Job Scheduling is hard to master - another program for project management is required
  • Internal communication is limited. We rely on other systems to support communication
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cloud based, very easy to login from anywhere
  • Tracking invoices and pulling reports for AR & AP works well.
  • Database of customers and vendors
  • Custom Development team provides quotes in a reasonable timeframe
  • Custom reports - support for this should be included, and not an added cost.
  • Margin Summary cost data is broken, duplicating costs. Cannot be used for analysis.
  • Scheduling module is difficult to use, difficult to adjust for changing team size and capacities.
  • Subassembly jobs show $0 Job Value; this creates a mess when trying to gauge the $/hr profitability of individual job numbers. Because all of the profit is in the parent assembly, most of the hours are stuck with the child jobs showing $0 in sales value.
  • My customer service rep cannot answer any technical questions, I'm referred to a support queue.
  • Support reps are quick to call an issue DONE and close out my ticket, without verifying that my problem has been addressed.
  • I cannot look at my sales backlog and show how many dollars from jobs are scheduled due for this week, next week, the week after, etc.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Quotes
  • Job Costing (Without the purchase of scheduling)
  • Reporting!! PLEASE!!!
  • API Integrations - If your system cannot do it - Let us see if we can find one that can!
  • Put URL's for email addresses, and User Fields (Custom)
  • Ability to put notes as CRM systems do
October 20, 2023

JobBOSS² is the BOSS

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tracking of inventory
  • Tracking of cost per job
  • Invoicing customers
  • Ease of tracking employee time
  • Ease of tracking time per job
  • Ease of tracking job from beginning to end
  • We would like to be able to add a skid count to our BOL
  • I would like to be able to see OPEN accounts payable without having to close the month.
October 20, 2023

Review of JobBOSS²

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tracking time on jobs/machines
  • Billing is fairly easy to send out
  • Financial reports are hard to export to a user friendly version
  • Multiple reports are needed to be ran to get comparison data
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easily "inquire" on parts, vendors or customers
  • Able to trace activity via audit trail
  • Can import BOMs
  • It is clunky in going from "TAB" to key board on data entry screens
  • Processing returns is a lengthy process & too many steps
  • Processing orders for stock is a bit cumbersome
  • Check processing with discounts is not the easiest
  • Production scheduling is challenging
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Backlog, order, and shipment summary
  • Production schedule
  • Cost analysis
  • Keep track of inventory
  • Keep track of material orders
  • Keep track of tooling maintenance
  • Helps create corrective/preventive actions (NCR, scraps)
  • Production schedule
January 02, 2018

Poor investment

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Bill of materials
  • Subassemblies
  • Inventory management
  • Support what's purchased, after our purchase was made, I never heard from them again.
  • To reiterate I believe the software is excellent but if you have any support issues, you're done.
William Grimm | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • E2 is very user friendly. Once configured, users can start using without a long training time. We implemented in stages so they would not get overwhelmed.
  • E2 has a ton of reports available. We print time tracking on a daily basis to review hours and steps during manufacturing.
  • E2 allows you to customize reports using Crystal Reports to allow you to get the information you need out of the reports.
  • Annual maintenance costs for updates and support is rather costly.
  • You must really think about how you will use E2 so when you implement the software it is right the first time.
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