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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
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We currently operating all manufacturing operations out of JobBOSS². We use JobBOSS² for order entry and control, quality control, load …
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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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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.

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  • No setup fee

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

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Product Demos

Dashboards with JobBOSS² Software

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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.

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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.

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Project Execution Management

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Procurement

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Risk Management

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Logistics

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing solution for managing manufacturing processes and costs.

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Supply Chain

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Product Lifecycle Management

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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
JobBOSS² runs on the cloud, and this makes it easy for our staff to use. We use JobBOSS² as our ERP system. This allows us to plan and control the flow of the product being manufactured. Scheduling is used to assist with the tight schedules and outside processors we work with within our industry.
  • 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
Production manufacturing and machining would be strong points. JobBOSS² has some options to grow into other ECI products or 3rd party vendors. These offer options for inspection, quoting, accounting, and scaling the business to many locations. A good example for a small business owner could use Intuit Quickbooks and move into JobBOSS² accounting as the business grows.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JobBOSS² as our primary ERP software. We like the project costing and purchasing functions as a way to keep accurate costs of the labor, parts and administrative paperwork needed for each project. We also use the quality documentation function to comply with our quality management system. We wished it did more from a CRM and profit margin calculation perspective. The reporting functionality is limited but good for what we need.
  • Good job costing
  • Timely Business reports
  • Accurate inventory
  • Better reports with deeper detail
  • CRM funtionality
  • Drawing upload functionality
The JobBOSS² ERP software offers robust functionality for streamlining business processes, managing finances, and tracking inventory. While it excels in data integration and user-friendly interfaces, occasional glitches and limited customization options prevent it from achieving greatness. Overall, it provides solid support for small or medium-sized enterprises but may lack scalability for larger organizations.
Hagen Kern | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JobBOSS² in our machine shop for order in take planning, production scheduling, purchasing of raw materials and other supplies as well es employee time tracking. We also use the report functionally for tracking profitability per job, which also allows us to better quote based on historical values adjusted with updated labor and raw material cost.
  • Time tracking per job
  • Order in take management
  • Purchase handling of raw materials
  • In my opinion, Management and bait and switch on sales side
  • Not being clear about what you are buying
  • Selling consultant hours although not needed
We spent over spent by about $4000 for the upgrade from our old local hosted E2 shop software to the new cloud based JobBOSS². We were not informed that we are paying for a certain amount of consulting hours upfront ($4000) for our upgrade. We did not need those hours and, in my experience, when I asked to credit them.to.our account for billing they refused although this was never explained before hand. In my opinion, this is very much a bait and switch sales behavior. We are happy with the software but the sales team and their management is something else. Furthermore the consultant hours are expiring after 12 month which was also never discussed.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jobboss2 is our company's ERP platform. We use it to track customer orders, inventory, time tracking, outside service processing, and production routings. The problem it solves is the manual tracking of orders, inventory, and routings in Excel spreadsheets & on paper, which was a slow, cumbersome, repetitive, and often redundant task. Inventory was tracked in a spreadsheet previously, orders were tracked in their own individual spreadsheets, and job routings existed on pen & paper. We're now able to track all of our parts and routings in Jobboss, tweak them easily to launch new production runs, and capture inventory information. Instead of manually tracking time with a time clock or pen and paper, machinists are now able to scan a bar code and start recording their hours automatically for particular operations.
  • 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.
Jobboss2 helps with creating routings, tracking hours towards those, and tracking inventory for discrete orders. It does not work well for blanket orders, consignment, or long-term agreements-type contracts with customers. Raw material tracking is completely ineffective with Jobboss2. Costing is quite ineffective with Joboss2. Production/lot planning & scheduling is ineffective and is a huge limiting factor. All of these items require manual tracking in spreadsheets. Jobboss2 has helped us get away from tracking routings with pen and paper and timesheets with pen and paper... but we're still having to use Excel to track consignment, blanket orders, job planning/when to launch new travelers, and costing/quoting. Going from pen and paper routings to digital has been a huge help overall, but the other limitations are incredibly concerning, which has led us to research & possibly switch ERP platforms.
October 29, 2023

Choose JobBOSS2

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 analysis of shop production and a system to help us streamline jobs and resources.
  • 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.
I think JobBOSS2 is well suited for any machine shop or manufacturing business.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JobBOSS² is our MRP/ERP system for our small manufacturing business. We use it to track all materials and jobs through our value stream. We also use it for all of AR/AP and bookkeeping.
  • 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.
JobBOSS² works great for scheduling material requirements and driving purchasing. Setting up dashboards is fairly easy, as long as the data already exists in the system. Running admin AR/AP in JobBOSS works well. Accepting payments with NET1 in JobBOSS² works well. I want to drive my business with throughput accounting KPIs, but I cannot get these from JobBOSS² as it is not set up for this.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use E2 Shop System across the whole organization, starting with entering the orders when they first arrive to creating packing slips when the order gets shipped out. With the help of order summaries, such as backlog and shipment summaries, it is very easy to keep track of orders and shipments. It also provides purchase order summaries, which helps us identify which vendor we're sending our parts to more and their dollar value as well. Also, with the help of dashboard, it's easy to see monthly/yearly goals and sales, as well as backlog analysis in a pie chart form. E2 Shop System helps us with production schedules and keeping a smooth schedule running the shop floor.
  • 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
E2 Shop System is great for backlog and shipment summaries, which our organization uses it for every single day. We also use E2 Shop System to enter new jobs and to keep track of them until they gets shipped. E2 Shop System is also very good at keeping track of partial shipments; it has the option to make partial packing slips so that we make them for exact amount of parts we shipping. E2 Shop System also helps us to create a router, which goes on the shop floor with each individual job that shows all that needs to be done with for that particular job.

There is an improvement required when it comes to the production schedule. It does the job for now but it doesn't notify when we are running late on jobs--it needs to be done manually currently.
William Grimm | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize E2 for all aspects of our Sheet Metal Fabrication, from purchasing to scheduling. E2 has many different modules that we use. They are:

Purchasing
Inventory
Order Entry
Job Travelers
Returns/Non-conformances

These modules have helped us significantly in tracking jobs throughout the process as well as compliance with our ISO standards.
  • 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.
E2 is great at getting you information via reports and you can drill down to specific details. This has helped us calculate hours, costs and track non-conformances to allow for improvements.

The scheduling module is complicated and Shoptech does not offer much in the way of virtual training on implementation. We are paying for onsite training and implementation. All other aspects are pretty straight forward.
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