JobBOSS² - Make Life Easier for Job Shops
October 20, 2023

JobBOSS² - Make Life Easier for Job Shops

Brittany Rozier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with JobBOSS²

We use JobBOSS² to help maintain organization, workflow, and job costing for our rapidly growing company. This year, we purchased a separate building to host our Machine Shop capabilities and needed software to provide a central hub for our production team, as we are now actively working out of two locations. Before JobBOSS², tracking inventory and material usage was all done with Excel spreadsheets kept in multiple locations. We also did not have a great way to track Job Costing or P&L reports. The Job Travelers give precise data for labor hours, and the platform makes pulling reports like a P&L or Actual vs Estimated Cost quick and easy! We are also an ISO-certified company and purchased the Quality add-on. It is so much easier having all of our information stored in one central location where all users can easily access it since this is a website-hosted software. We also use JobBOSS² for our purchasing needs, production, and shop floor control. Assigning exact material needed directly to jobs is a luxury we did not have prior. Ultimately, using JobBOSS² has not only given us better, more accurate, and easily accessible financial data but also helped us organize and simplify many of our purchasing and material processes.
  • 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
  • Increased profit. Being able to use the Actual Cost vs. Estimated Cost once a job has been completed has given us an easy tool to see if we are charging the customer accurate amounts or if our prices need to be revised.
  • Improved Visibility. The reporting dashboard offers a lot of feedback into our Job Costing
I have absolutely benefited from using JobBOSS²! We relied on many different tools and spreadsheets to manage everything from inventory to payroll. Having all this information stored in one location has made everything more efficient and accessible to all users.
Quickbooks Desktop is the only tool we wanted to be integrated, and everything has gone perfectly. We are not using JobBOSS² to track AR or AP, pay bills, or receive customer payments. All of that is still going through QuickBooks. However, customer and vendor invoices are both created out of JobBOSS². We then use a tool to sync JobBOSS² to QuickBooks so the data is seamlessly transferred to QuickBooks. QuickBooks better suits our accounting needs, so we wanted to continue using it in the background. So far, we have not had any issues with this integration.

Do you think JobBOSS² delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with JobBOSS²'s feature set?

Yes

Did JobBOSS² live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of JobBOSS² go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy JobBOSS² again?

Yes

JobBOSS² is very well suited for Job Shops. If you are in a service-based industry, like myself, you will have to apply the training the best you can to suit your company. For example, estimates are saved as defined parts in JobBOSS², but as a service-based industry, we are not making parts; we receive customer parts and provide a service, then ship the same parts back to our customer. It was not a simple data conversion because our "item" list in QuickBooks was not typical for a manufacturing company producing a product. We have had to enter customer parts manually and what service we are providing on an individual basis since we did not have set "Part Numbers" to pull from our QuickBooks Items list. We also have a lot of Time and material jobs that we cannot save to the system and have to re-quote every time due to changes in how much material and labor will be needed.

JobBOSS² Feature Ratings

Accounts payable
5
Accounts receivable
5
Global Financial Support
5
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
5
Configurable Accounting
6
Standardized Processes
10
Billing Management
Not Rated
Cash and Asset Management
Not Rated
Travel & Expense Management
Not Rated
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
Not Rated
Period Close
Not Rated
Inventory tracking
10
Automatic reordering
10
Location management
10
Pricing
10
Order entry
10
Credit card processing
Not Rated
Cost of goods sold
10
Order Orchestration
10
Pay calculation
10
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Dashboards
10
Standard reports
10
Custom reports
10
API for custom integration
10
Plug-ins
10
Role-based user permissions
10
Single sign-on capability
10
Award Lifecycle Management
10
Project Planning and Scheduling
10
Task Insight for Project Managers
10
Project Mobile Functionality
10
Definable Resource Pools
10
Bids Analyzed and Compared
10
Contract Authoring
10
Contract Repository
10
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
10
Supplier Management
10
Risk Repository
10
Control Management
10
Control Efficiency Assessments
10
Issue Detection
10
Remediation and Certification
10
Transportation Planning and Optimization
10
Transportation Execution Management
10
Trade and Customs Management
Not Rated
Fulfillment Management
10
Warehouse Workforce Management
10
Production Process Design
10
Production Management
10
Configuration Management
10
Work Execution
10
Manufacturing Costs
10
Forecasting
5
Inventory Planning
8
Performance Monitoring
8
Proposal Management
10
Product Master Data Management
10