PROJECT AND JOB COSTING

Every cost on every job. As it happens.

See labour, materials, plant, subcontractors and committed spend against budget, in the same system as your accounts. No exports. No seams. No waiting for month end.

Wiise gives you the complete, live cost and margin truth at job level. Not an estimate. Not a spreadsheet reconstruction. The actual numbers because your jobs and your ledger are in one system.

WHEN JOB AND ACCOUNTING DATA LIVE APART

Nobody trusts the margin until weeks after the job closes.

Costs you've committed but can't see
Purchase orders raised off-system mean committed spend is invisible until the invoice arrives, by which point the budget is already gone.
Margins you only learn at month end.
When job data lives outside your accounting system, the true margin on any job is a calculation that happens too late to act on.
A job system that disagrees with the ledger
When your project tool and your accounting system sync on a schedule or don't sync at all, someone is always working off the wrong number.
EVERYTHING IN ONE SYSTEM

Capture every dollar a job consumes, when it happens.

Materials, plant and subcontractors are the three place job margin leads. Wiise captures each one the moment the cost occurs, so there's no end-of-week reconciliation.

1. LABOUR

See labour costs as timesheets are submitted

Approved timesheets flow straight into job costs. At actual paid rates. Team members submit time through Wiise Payroll, and that data flows automatically into Wiise when it happens. No exports, no imports.

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2. MATERIALS & STOCK

Report on job material costs the moment they're consumed 

See line-by-line detail of every project cost and compare budgets to actuals now with live labour costs from approved payroll, not just month-end. Track goods received against invoiced and your estimated cost at completion to budget better and avoid surprises. 

Whether you're issuing stock from the warehouse or receipting a purchase order against a specific job section, Wiise captures the cost at the point it occurs. No end-of-week reconciliation. No materials disappearing into overhead. The job card reflects what was actually used.

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3. PLANT, EQUIPMENT & RESOURCES

Assign internal plant usage as a real job cost

Allocate machinery, equipment and internal resources to jobs with cost rates attached, so plant recovery shows up in job margins not overhead.

Most businesses track billable headcount but lose plant and equipment costs to a general overhead pool. Wiise lets you attach cost rates to any resource - people, machinery or equipment. So when a piece of plant is allocated to a job, the cost lands where it belongs. Capacity planning shows availability before you commit. 

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4. SUBCONTRACTORS & COMMITTED COSTS

Track costs as they're committed 

Subcontractor spend is the biggest source of budget surprise on construction and engineering jobs. Purchase orders raised off-system are invisible until the invoice arrives, and by then the margin's already gone.

In Wiise, every PO raised against a job line shows as committed cost the moment it's created. Your project manager sees what's been received, what's been invoiced and what's still outstanding — and gets an accurate estimate at completion while there's still time to act on it, not when month end forces the calculation.

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BUDGET - ACTUAL - REMAINING - COMMITTED

See the full picture before month end

One view. Budget, actual, remaining and committed. At the job level, the cost centre level or across every job in your portfolio.

The current state of every job is visible in real time, not reconstructed after the fact. Drill into any job to see performance by resource, task or cost centre. Seeing what's left and what's already promised but not yet invoiced. Telling you whether your'e going to finish on budget before it's too late to do anything about it.

QUOTE TO COMPLETION

From first quote to final invoice, every step in one place.

Fixed price or time and materials. Build a detailed quote by job section, deliver against it, track variations separately and invoice from the same record.

Untracked variations are where fixed-price margin dies. Wiise lets you manage varied scope separately from the base contract, so you always know which part of the job is on budget and which part has moved. Quote by section with individual resources, items and requirements. Track billable and no-billable lines. Measure budget accuracy after every job so your next estimate starts from what actually happened.

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FLEXIBLE BILLING ARRANGEMENTS

Bill the way your projects actually work.

Fixed price, time and materials, milestones or progress claims - set up billing to match each project type. 

Fixed price

Quote a total, track costs against it, invoice at completion or milestones.

Time and materials

Bill exactly what was used. Labour and materials flow directly to the invoice. 

Milestone billing

Invoice at defined project stages. Tie payment to delivery. 

Progress claims & retentions

For customers billing on completion percentage. Retain a percentage until sign-off.

WIP & REVENUE RECOGNITION

WIP straight from the ledger

In most setups, WIP lives in a spreadsheet. Someone rebuilds it every month, matches it against the ledger, and the two never quite agree. In Wiise, jobs post straight to the general ledger. WIP, completion percentage and unclaimed revenue come from the same transactions as your P&L. Nothing to reconcile. Accurate any day of the month, not just at close.

Financial controls & approval workflows

Controls that keep project spend honest.

Combined with real-time budget alerts and purchase commitment reporting, project-based businesses now have the governance layer CFOs expect, without the overhead of a separate approval tool. For businesses running NDIS or government-funded programs, approval workflows also satisfy audit and compliance requirements natively.

New-item approval
New items require approval before they hit your jobs.
Gated vendor bank changes
Vendor bank account changes are gated and verified.
Budget alerts
Budget alerts fire before limits are breached.
CAPACITY & TIME CAPTURE

From the field to the ledger, without the gap in between

Capacity planning

See who's available before you commit. Allocate people and equipment to jobs with a live view of capacity and the cost of every resource built in. 

Project progress

Track every project against plan with Project Planning Lines, live Project Statistics and percentage complete. So operations see resource allocation, progress and margin in one place without waiting for a report.

Mobile timesheets

Your team logs time from anywhere on mobile, allocated to the right job. That data flows to payroll and into project costs the same day, no re-keying. 

WHO IT HELPS

Once source of truth, three jobs made easier.

Project Manager

Know today whether the job is on budget.

Every cost lands on your job as it's incurred, labour, materials, subbies and committed and spend. You don't need to wait for someone else to update a spreadsheet. 

Finance Manager

Jobs and the GL always agree because they're the same system.

WIP, revenue recognition and percentage of completion come out of the same data as your P&L. Month-end reconciliation stops being a matching exercise.

Inventory & Manufacturing

Quote your next job from what your last one actually cost.

Job actuals feed your next estimate automatically. The loop from delivery back to quoting is the most powerful thing a job costing system can close.

Industries

Built for businesses that live or die by job margin.

 

Trade & field services

HVAC, electrical, mechanical, plumbing

Every service job has labour, materials and often a subcontractor. Margin per job is what keeps the business alive and it needs to be visible before the job closes, not after the invoice goes out. 

Engineering & industrial services

Pipeline, mining services, fabrication & install

High-value jobs with plant, subbies and progress billing. The difference between budgeted and actual committed cost is where contracts are won or lost.

Construction-adjacent contractors

Fit-out, maintenance, civil

Fixed-price risk and variation management define profitability. Seeing budget vs actual vs remaining vs committed in one view is the capability that changes how these businesses bid.

Professional services

Consulting, architecture, managed services

Labour is the primary cost and the primary revenue driver. Utilisation, job actuals and quote-to-actuals feedback loops are the levers that move margin. 

 

One system

What feeds your job costs.

Wiise Payroll
Approved timesheets flow directly into job labour costs at actual paid rates.
Wiise Inventory
Stock issued to jobs from any location. Purchase receipts hit job lines at the moment of receipt.
Wiise Banking & AR
Job invoices flow directly to receivables. Progress claims and retentions tracked against open jobs.
Wiise Reporting
Job profitability, WIP, budget vs actuals, and cost centre performance — all built on the same data as your P&L.

“Without Wiise, we wouldn’t have been able to continue to grow. It’s transformed the business and there are still a lot of capabilities that we haven't utilised yet.”

Cameron from FVS

Cameron Rollason, CFO at FVS

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