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Create and Automate a Job Costing Report

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Use the Reporting module to create custom job costing reports, apply employee filters, organize report output, and optionally automate report delivery on a recurring schedule.

  • Available fields, filters, and preferences may vary based on the selected report type.

  • Automated reports are emailed based on the selected delivery frequency, delivery time, time zone, and reporting period parameters.

Create a job costing report

  1. Go to Reports.

  2. Select Create report.

  3. Select Job Costing.

Job Costing report option

  1. Enter a report name.

Example report names:

  • Weekly Job Cost Summary

  • Employee Job Allocation

  • Project Labor Hours

  • Monthly Job Cost Detail

  • Active Employee Job Report

  1. Select the Report type.

Available report types may include:

  • Daily Summary

  • Detailed

  • Job List

  • Summary

  1. Optional: Select Assign tag to organize the report by tag.

Assign tag option for report

Configure report columns

  1. Select the fields you want to include in the report.

Available columns may include:

  • Employee ID

  • Full name

  • Job

  • Project

  1. Review the selected fields in the right panel.

  2. Reorder the selected fields as needed.

Selected report fields panel

Configure report preferences

Depending on the report type, additional preferences may be available.

Options may include:

  • Use employee full name

  • Client

  • Rate

  • Task

Job costing report preferences

Configure formatting and sorting

Use Order employees by to define how employee records are sorted in the report.

Sorting options include:

  • Employee Name (A to Z)

  • Employee ID (low to high)

  • Employee ID (high to low)

Order employees by sorting options

Configure employee filters

Use employee filters to limit which employees appear in the report.

Available filters include:

  • Employee archive status

  • Employment status

  • FT/PT status

  • Employee type

  • Groups

Employee archive status

Filter employees by archive status.

Available options:

  • Not archived

  • Archived

Employee archive status filter options

Employment status

Filter employees by employment status.

Available options may include:

  • Active

  • Pending

  • Inactive

  • Terminated

Employment status filter options

Employee type

Filter employees by employee type.

Available options may include:

  • Regular

  • Intern

  • Seasonal

  • Temporary

  • Contractor

  • On Call

  • Vendor Employee

Employee type filter options

FT/PT status

Filter employees by employment schedule type.

Available options:

  • Part Time

  • Full Time

FT/PT status filter options

Automate report delivery

Enable Automate report to automatically generate and email the report on a recurring schedule.

  1. Turn on the Automate report toggle.

  2. Enter an automation name.

Example automation names:

  • Weekly Job Cost Email

  • Monthly Labor Cost Distribution

  • Payroll Job Summary Delivery

  • Daily Project Hours Report

  1. Select the automation Status.

Available options:

  • Active

  • Pause

Automation status options

  1. Enter one or more email addresses in Emails (separate emails with commas).

  2. Select the Delivery frequency.

Available frequencies may include:

  • Daily

  • Weekly

  • Monthly

  • Bi weekly

  • Semi monthly

  • Quarterly

  • Yearly

  1. Select the Delivery time.

Delivery frequency and delivery time settings

  1. Select a Time zone.

  2. Use Parameters to define how the automated report determines the reporting period.

Available parameter types:

  • Date ranges

  • Pay period

Automated report parameter type options

  • Use Date ranges when the report should always use a relative date range, such as today, yesterday, or the last number of days, weeks, or months.

  • Use Pay period when the report should follow an existing pay period schedule.

Date range parameters

When using Date ranges, select a date range type.

Available options may include:

  • Today

  • Yesterday

  • Last (x) of days

  • Last (x) of weeks

  • Last (x) of months

  • Next (x) weeks

Date range parameter options

Pay period parameters

When using Pay period, select the pay period type.

Available options:

  • Current pay period

  • Previous pay period

Pay period parameter options

  1. Select the specific pay period schedule using Select pay period.

Available pay period schedules may include:

  • Bi-Weekly

  • Weekly

  • Monthly

Archived pay periods may also appear in the list.

Select pay period schedule list

  1. Select Create to save the report.

Create button to save the job costing report