Setup: Ability to use Jobs

I am absolutely flabergasted that MYOB Essentials has not included Jobs feature in the online version.  I am a long time user of MYOB have been ever since the dark ages of the mid 1990's.  The jobs feature is one of the most widely used feature of the software.  Why has it been omitted?  I would love to hear from one of MYOB reps as to why it has not been brought through? I do not want a glossy PR explaination , but the real honest truth would be nice.    I read somewhere that we should use  3rd party app that is a partner to MYOB to keep track.  Honestly that is a silly idea indeed.  Why? That is another app, another software that uses our personal details it feels there will be more work for me using the 3rd party app.     Not happy Jan :smileymad:

I have recomended myob to a client who has signed up on the information I provided them.  Now I feel I have lead them astray as one part of my clients record keeping is the JOBS feature, one that is very important to their business.   

I have a client who is ready to switch to Essentials but won't do so until there is the ability to track jobs.  Accountright is too expensive for his needs and Essentials would be perfect.  I have been making this same request to MYOB reps at bookkeeper events and ATO seminars for years, but it appears that MYOB are not interested in this.

What is the schedule for implementing Job/Project functionality in MYOB Essentials??

It appears to have been hanging around for a while. 

Is there an alternative??

As a consultant I have hundreds of bills (travel expenses) that need to be invoiced back to different clients. It would make life so much easier if I could assign a unique value / code / job number / client name / or something similar to any or all bills. This would make my invoicing back to client much simpler.

1. What problem are you solving with this feature?

Currently MYOB essentials does not allow you to track expenses against a particular "Job" which inhibits users to calculate the cost of a particular job.

1. What are the main benefits to this feature?

Allowing reporting on jobs will assist in understanding how your business is running at the job level rather than just an overall level

1. Do you think Jobs is a universally understood name or is there a better term we could be using?

"Jobs" might not be a universal name for this but see it as associating expenses to a particular category/job. I receive 100 expenses a day. 40 needs to be assigned to one job and the otehr 60 to another job. At the end of those jobs I will know the exact cost of the job which I can then compare to invoices sent for that job and finally will have a report to work out what profit or loss was made on that particular job.

1. What industry are you in?

I am in the construction industry and when I talk about jobs I'm referring to actual construction jobs/addresses I am completing.  I do have a crude workaround that I fo use. I make up my own job ids and input these as a prefix to the invoice numbers for the expeses.  Then I can use the search function to search for the job id and it wil give me a list of all expenses for that id.  If I scroll to the bottom of the list I will have the complete cost of that job.  Same with invoices.  Then I use a pen and paper to work out if that job was profitable and use this information when quoting/estimating future jobs.

Furth notes: Ideally you would want the "Job" selection to be a drop down box selection and unique. Older jobs should be able to be removed from the list to minimise list.

Hope that help.

I have a variety of clients in mixed industries, some are trades, builders, rental management, etc.

Each has different problems which would be solved with a Jobs category, particularly for cost management and affiliating jobs to clients, etc.

There are many benefits including project controls, property management data, etc.

Personally I feel the name 'Jobs' is fine as it is recognisable to anyone who is familiar with the application of it in AccountRight and it does describe what it's for.

I am a BAS Agent by my clients are in various industries, as outlined above.

I hope this becomes part of Essentials as I have a client who uses QB and has been asking for years if Essentials has adapted it yet.

Cheers...   Nick

The jobs feature needs to function like it does in Account Right/Edge - the ability to allocate a job on each line entry, and prepare reports based on the jobs.

Essentials is unfortunately useless to me without this feature. This is probably the most "essential" feature I need in an accounting program.

I work for clients in the Arts/Entertainment Industry and they have multiple projects with funding from different sources that need to be separately accounted for and reported on.

Is there a time frame on the introduction of this?

1. What problem are you solving with this feature? being able to do a P&L on a job, job expense tracking, including wage expenses
2. What are the main benefits to this feature? being able to ensure that a client is not under quoting, make sure the client is profitable
3. Do you think Jobs is a universally understood name or is there a better term we could be using? Job expense tracking, job tracking, 
4. What industry are you in; I'm a bookkeeper but my clients would like it to track building P&L /expenses & another client would like to track tour P&L / expenese,  My non for profit clients would require it for reporting to track grant funding.
5. Other; I have a client that wants to change from Essentials to AR Live but there is no migration to do this so they havent as yet.  They may do the change in the new financial year.